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New online database tracks threats, actions to protect Colorado wildlife
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Climate change threatens the high-alpine home of Colorado’s pika. A lack of snow does not bode well for the lynx. Gas and oil development has overtaken former land of the prairie chicken and mountain plover. Urban development has overtaken that of the burrowing owl. Hikers and campers scare away the boreal toad, while rock climbers…