{"id":23470,"date":"2022-09-20T01:29:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=23470"},"modified":"2022-09-20T01:31:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T01:31:54","slug":"usda-conducts-statewide-airport-wildlife-training-in-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/colorado\/usda-conducts-statewide-airport-wildlife-training-in-colorado\/%20","title":{"rendered":"USDA Conducts Statewide Airport Wildlife Training in Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Photo above – Wildlife Biologist Jonathan Matthews demonstrates the use of pyrotechnics to mitigate airport wildlife hazards to airport staff during a training session at Centennial Airport (APA) on August 11, 2022.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been\nhard at work this year educating the managers and sponsors at many of\nColorado’s public-use airports about the mitigation of wildlife hazards at\ntheir airports.  This training helps\nairports to reduce wildlife aircraft strikes and damage to airport\ninfrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Colorado Division of Aeronautics has partnered with the\nUSDA to help give airport management and staff the knowledge and skills to\nunderstand and proactively address wildlife hazards at their airports. This\ntraining is conducted by a qualified USDA Airport Wildlife Biologist and is\npartially funded by the Colorado Aviation Fund administered by the Colorado\nDivision of Aeronautics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) currently requires\nairports with commercial airline service to receive annual wildlife hazard\nmanagement training for all airport operations staff. This training is also\nmade available upon request to other Colorado general aviation airports.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To date, the USDA has conducted training for nearly 130\nairport staff members at 12 airports around Colorado.  These airports include Montrose Regional\nAirport (MTJ), Alamosa-San Luis Valley Regional Airport (ALS), Cortez-Montezuma\nCounty Airport (CEZ), Durango-La Plata County Airport (DRO), Northern Colorado\nRegional Airport (FNL), Telluride Regional Airport (TEX), Gunnison-Crested\nButte Regional Airport (GUC), Eagle County Regional Airport (EGE), Hayden-Yampa\nValley Regional Airport (HDN), Grand Junction Regional Airport (GJT), Rocky\nMountain Regional Airport (BJC), and Centennial Airport (APA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Wildlife Hazard Management training given by Wildlife\nServices (WS) in Colorado adheres to the FAA curriculum which trains airport\noperation staff to recognize wildlife hazards on their airfield and how to\nchoose the best solution to solve or mitigate these hazards. The training also\nfocuses on how to identify and report wildlife strikes, relevant wildlife laws\nand regulations, wildlife identification tailored to each airport or region of\nColorado, and hands-on demonstrations of non-lethal wildlife dispersal\ntechniques such as pyrotechnics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the key points of the training is to learn about the\nnatural behavior of certain species of wildlife found at airports around\nColorado. “Wildlife can be an unpredictable variable in the airport safety\nequation; therefore, making sure airports keep their \u201ctoolboxes\u201d prepared is\nvital to their ability to respond to wildlife hazards”, said USDA Wildlife\nBiologist Jonathan Matthews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

USDA Wildlife Services provides science-based leadership and expertise to reduce conflicts between wildlife and humans in the airport environment, enhancing the overall safety at Colorado’s public-use airports. To learn more about this program, please visit the USDA Airport Wildlife Hazards Program website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo above – Wildlife Biologist Jonathan Matthews demonstrates the use of pyrotechnics to mitigate airport wildlife hazards to airport staff during a training session at Centennial Airport (APA) on August 11, 2022. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been hard at work this year educating the managers and sponsors at many of Colorado’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":23474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colorado"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/USDA-Wildlife-edit-2.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23472,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23470\/revisions\/23472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}