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<br />3752 <br /> <br />APPENDIX B <br /> <br />:MEMORA~DUM REPORT <br />By Bureau of Sport Fisheries and 1Vildlife, Fjsh and Wildlife Service, <br />Albuquerque, N. Mex., August 26, 1959 <br />U.S. DEPART1UENT OF THE INTERIOR, <br />FISH AND 'V ILDLIFE SERVICE, <br />BUREAU OF SPORT FrSHt:IUES kNn 'VU.DLIFE. <br />Albuquerque, N. lVem., AU!lust flU, 1959. <br /> <br />:MEl\IORANDU1I[ <br /> <br />To: Regional Director, Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, <br />Colo. <br />From: Regional Dir~cl()r. <br />Subject: Ruedi Reservoir, Colo."Bureall of Sport Fisheries and 1Vild- <br />li fe Heport. <br />This memorandum constitutes this Bureau~s l'ecol1llai~sance report <br />on the relation of fish tllhl wildlife rE's()11rce~ to the <:on:-;t.l'l1etioll and <br />operation. of Ruedi Reservoir as pre:::ently planned b.v tJle Bureau of <br />Reclamation. The report has be,en prepared lIndct. the 'll1thol'it.y of <br />the Fish and 1Yildlife Coordination Act. 48 Stat. 401, as amended: 16 <br />V.S.C. 661 et s"q. The Colorado Department of Game and Fish has <br />cooperated in its preparation find eonCUrs in its contents by telegram <br />of August 18, 19D9, si''llpd by Director Thomas L. Kimball. <br />Abuut 7 miles of Frying-pan Rhcr and its tributn ries ilnd three <br />small lakes will be inundated by Ruedi Reservoir. According to a <br />report by a Colorado Department of Game and Fish lish shocking <br />crew that worked the stream a few years ago. the men ~aw more lUTge <br />trout in one section of this reach t,hnll in nny other efluallcngt.lt strenm <br />section in the State. The river within the reservoir site also contains <br />extensh:e spawning grounds probably used oy trout. of the Roaring <br />Fork RIver as wen as the Frymgpl111. <br />Fryingpan River provides one of the best and most heavily fished <br />trout fisheries in Colorado. During the next 50 years an a.'"erage of <br />about $60,000 in fishermen's expenditures ,,,,ill be nssociated ilIUlU3.11y <br />"ilh angling On the 7 miles of mnin stream and tributaries aHa the <br />three small lakes within the reservoir site. Fishermen 1Ise on the 1:3.5 <br />miles downstream from the reseIToir .site will result. in associnted ex- <br />pcnditll1'es of about $135,000 aunually for the next 50 years without <br />the projed. <br />R1H~di Re:-:;ervoil"s average anllllal minimum pool wiII have an area <br />or GOO acres. The surfaee of the l'l'servoir will finctuate an average of <br />64 feet each year. ~ <br />The fiverage. annual fishil1g use for thp. next 50 years on Rendi Reser- <br />yair will flnlOllnt. to ahout 25 fishermen per acre with associated spods- <br />men's expendit.lIres of about $22':),000 anllually. <br />60 <br />