The MITIGATE Modeling Approach

The MITIGATE modeling approach was developed to help address the impacts of oil and gas extraction on wildlife. MITIGATE's goal is to create a sustainable solution that better allows for the coexistence of wildlife and energy extraction on Western landscapes.

MITIGATE provides:

1) the quantified prediction of the impacts on habitat and forage on a variety of wildlife species from energy extraction, and

2) the prediction of quantified measures to mitigate those impacts on an on-site, near-site, or off-site basis.

MITIGATE can, for example, predict how much habitat and forage is being displaced due to energy extraction in a selected game management unit, and then offer the location/amount/methods for mitigating that displacement.

The MITIGATE Prototype

MITIGATE is currently a prototype methodology developed by Gary Wockner and Randy Boone. A powerpoint show representing this prototype can be viewed by clicking here. This prototype models deer and elk herds in GMU's 22 and 31 (the Piceance Basin) of Western Colorado.

This prototype does not represent valid scientific research, and should not be cited. This prototype is intended as an example of a methodology, not scientific results.

All ideas/methods/data/analyses/presentations shown in this slide presentation are the intellectual and commercial property of Gary Wockner and Randy Boone.

The MITIGATE Research Team

Gary Wockner and Randy Boone offer MITIGATE as one option in a toolbox of skills that can address the impacts on wildlife from energy extraction. The prototype slideshow is intended to stimulate discussion and research/contract opportunities, rather than be a sole approach/method. Around the impacts on wildlife of energy extraction, we can:

• Direct and broker natural resource information for agencies or companies
• Guide, administer, and conduct research at the basic or applied level
• Build software tools
• Offer services through commercial contract or university-based research
  
  Resumes and Work History
  Gary Wockner: www.nrel.colostate.edu/people/gwockner (970) 218-8310
  Randy Boone: www.nrel.colostate.edu/~rboone (970) 381-0538

Past clients have included: Colorado Division of Wildlife, U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. National Science Foundation, U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, International Livestock Research Institute (Kenya), Food and Agriculture Organization (Italy).