WSP10967

• File Number: 8200.765
• Description: Little Snake River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 6/1/1989
• Author: DOI-BLM
• Title: Little Snake Resource Management Plan and Record of Decision
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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2. Management plans will be written for each designated
site. Each site will also be monitored.

3. Remnant plant associations will be protected through
avoidance stipulations in Ace in the Hole, Hells Canyon,
G Gap, Vennillion Creek, Vermillion Bluffs, and Hor.;e
Draw. (An example of an avoidance stipulation can
be found under Threatened/Endangered, Candidate,
and Sensitive Plants.)

4. Memorandums of under.;tanding or agreement will be
developed with the Colorado Natural Areas Program,
the Nature Conservancy, and other interested agencies
or groups to provide recommendations on protecting,
managing, and studying the unique resource values
found in the designated areas and elsewhere in the
resource area. BLM would retain sole management
responsibility.

Resource Condition and Rationale

All four ACECs meetlbe required identification criteria
of relevance and importance pur.;uant to 43 CFR 1610.7-
2(a) and BLM Manual Section 16l7.81(C). All of these
areas contain important ecological values (sensitive plants)
which require special management to ensure their protection.

Implementation Priorities

The four ACEC designations became effective upon
approval of this plan. ACEC activity plans will be prepared
to more specifically guide protection and management of
important resources located at each of the designated sites.
Priority for activity plan preparation is:

I. Limestone Ridge ACEC/RNA
2. Cross Mountain Canyon ACEC
3. Irish Canyon ACEC
4. Lookout Mountain ACEC

All project proposals and land-use applications will be
analyzed to ensure they do not conflict with the ACECs.
Resource use limitations for the sites will be strictly adhered
to, as will the detailed management prescriptions upon
completion of specific ACEC activity plans.

Monitoring

Ongoing monitoring will continue to ensure maintenance
of the important plant values contained within ACECs.
Additional monitoring may be necessary according to
specific activity plans. Data obtained from monitoring studies
will be used to verify the effectiveness of I) resource use
limitations identified in this RMP, 2) any additional
management measures developed as a result of activity

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DECISIONS

planning, and 3) to develop future management
recommendations.

Support

Support will be required from resource specialists to
prepare and review activity plans.

Recreation Management

Objectives

. Protect and maintain a diver.;ity of outdoor recreation
opportunities, activities, and experiences.

. Provide high quality visitor services, including interpretive
information.

. Maintain established recreation opportunity spectrum
classes upon implementation of all planned manage-
ment actions.

. Ensure maintenance and minimize degradation of existing
visual resource management classes.

Planned Actions

I. The Little Yampa/Juniper Canyon area (19,840 acres)
will be administered as a special recreation management
area to provide unrestricted flatwater river floatboating
in the region. The area is divided into upper (4,480
acres) and lower (15,360 acres) units. Periodic use
supervision will be provided. Access will be negotiated
for parking areas at put-in and take-<lut points. Other
facilities will be constructed as needed for public
sanitation and safety. A map/brochure will be
developed to promote visitor health and safety, provide
resource protection, and infonn the public of available
opportunities. Limited signs will be provided for
information, direction, and interpretation. A Little
Y ampa/ Juniper Canyon Recreation Area Management
Plan will be developed.

2. The remainder of the resource area will receive limited
management as an Extensive Recreation Management
Area where recreation use is dispersed and requires
only minimal management. BLM will provide basic
infonnation on public safety and recreation opportun-
ities within the resource area, and provide access and
minimal facilities as demand warrants.

3. BLM lands within Cedar Mountain (880 acres) will
be managed as part of the Extensive Recreation
Management Area for environmental education, hiking,
and viewing. Trails and signs will be provided for

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