WSP10596

• File Number: 8507
• Description: Rio Grande Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Date: 8/12/1957
• Title: Field Examination Report - Proposed Kerber Creek Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Revegetatiollt

Shrub planting aiJd se~ing
Reseeding grasses and 'barbs

1,000 aoral3
Boo acres

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Approxima.te1y 15 mil~'~~,Old roads are oontribu~ang lIIe.ter~t~ ~rosio:.;V
.problems downstream~ ;:.mrl'f)'lQ roadsslIouJ.d beoblitli<~ted in ol.'"d,er t4? 1:'~CI;l;ti\i13
erosion. Additional".~na;ge structures will be ~adad on awro%l.ms.te~17.
m11es of roads to ~~:erosion. . '.'
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It this ~roject is ~~. it ill ant:1cipa~ tl;at the ForestSer..,i,<<;\& will
participate and, llhll~epplloabJ.e, furnish "l'echniee.l assia~cp. on .~~e-
ment problems on ad$aiii,iI!iltPrivateo ::Landi!. It is estimated at. tbist:lme' th!lt at least
50% of btotal pr:1,a~'land acreage in the drainage :is classii'i",oi,~s ,range land.
. Technical aesistanaeto tbs farmers and ranol1ers to'!.' streamside P1!Uiting or other
. teehniCll.l forestry a13si.s:!;ai)ce will be provided aa neooeslil1V. .

It is not anticipatedtl'.a:tthe fire prevention and control phalle~ wj,ll be of
lllIlJor important in t14s'Vatershed. The present fire O1'ganiI<\ationshQUld ~ov:l.de
adeqwate protect:lOl4 .

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The. public landsadminister.ed by the Bureau of Joana. YJa1'lagement Yit~ the Kl'lrber
.creek -watershed have halim scheduled tor various conservation j1rll.cticss in the
f'.isca.l ;year of 1961. The practices will consist of:

1. Land Treatment
2. Construction Treatment

~ Control
Sheet Erosion Control
1'!oad obliteration
!'load' d1'a1na
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'l'rdl drainage
FenCe QODst.ruoti~ ..f:t:ir graa1ng con~'Ol
~ water deve1op1l!~ts
FloOd control struc~s (over 10 acre ft.)

11 lDi.1es
6,$00 acne
15 JIl1lee
17 llI1lea
30 miles
23 mUss
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ot the.l~.597 acres Of:~:t.ional forest land ;included in thek:i:'berCreek .
dre1natt. .' .'e. approximata~.-~;..:1~.'.' is oovered with t:lJnha.:r......~. .mostly ~...!I:ld...' .~. . Po. la. p. 1n..~~...
and Engleman spruce, ;;.Ilt~'large acreage oJ: Aspen. These t.iJi1b~.red areas al:'$
in fair to good COndi~ for watershed proteet.iot;. Appro~te4rlP%, of'tha
t:I.mberGd. area is open~~iids of Pondarosa pine whic,h i.e oontriblJ,i;ing::in V4l"iQ'"o.W
degrees to the erosi9#;!,#tpb1.ems dotrostream. The ~ 10%o:f'~h:e tot~ irea
:l.a opeUgt'assland. ~'b.~gJi percentage of' this Ues on rele.tiveqsi<e~p elopl'l$
which do not lend thij~JYes to meobanica1 trea:bnellt. The Ol'lehOO~'Oin'~s ax:e
.in poor to .fair co~~~.f,'rom Q grazing standpoint and most. of t.h"l'I3vegetRtiQl1
proposed would.be d~;~'-t,helle areas. Grazing control 1snElc.~!lsaryovel"':t;,~
entire ar.ea and tbe p~~ fences would secure lil110b cOl1tI-oJ;,.:and make der#~
and rotational grazinli:~~l'ra.otiaa.l.

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