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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for special recreation permit compliance and other problems
related to user conflicts, resource protection, and visitor
health and safety.

Support

Engineering, surface reclamation, hydrologic, soils, and
archaeologic support will be required in the design and
construction of projects. Support will be needed from other
resource specialists to assess impacts of proposed projects
and identify mitigative measures, if needed. Cadastral survey
will be needed to locate public land boundaries.

Vehicle Use Management

Areas have been designated as open, limited, or closed
to vehicle use as shown in Table 8. The Little Snake RMP
map shows the areas listed in the table. A vehicle use
implementation plan will be completed within one year of
the RMP's approval.

Cultural and Paleontological Resource
Management

Objectives

. To identify and protect the cultural and paleontological
resources within the Little Snake Resource Area.

Planned Actions

1. Evaluate all proposed surface-disturbing actions to
determine inventory needs and sites potentially
impacted by such activities.

2. Ensure that all sites that are listed on, or potentially
eligible for listing on, the National Register of Historic
Places are identified and assessed through the Section
106 consultation process before any surface-disturbing
action is permitted.

3. An overall cultural resource management plan as well
as a paleontological management plan will be developed
that addresses the prehistoric and historic cultural
presence as well as the fossil presence in the resource
area. Separate plans, on a smaller scale, would be
developed to include site specific or region specific areas
of the resource area. These developed plans would
address the existing data gaps and research questions
that have been developed in the Lillie Snake Resource
Area Class I Overview (La Point 1987) and the

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT DEOSIONS

Paleontological Overview (Armstrong n.d.). These
future plans will be the data orientation and collection
designs needed to develop the basic knowledge of these
resources that has been lacking in the past.

Resource Condition and Rationale

Cultural and paleontological resources are non-renewable
resources whicb are subject to damage with the resulting
loss of scientific information. They serve the public interest
by being available for scientific investigation and public
education.

Implementation Priorities

Cultural and paleontological resource management plans
will be developed to address the identification, protection,
and monitoring of these resources within the Lillie Snake
Resource Area. A cultural resource and paleontological
management plan will be developed for the Sand Wash
Basin within the next five years.

Moniloring

All known prehistoric and historic cultural resources and
paleontological sites are monitored to determine effectiveness
of the program. This monitoring provides the basis for
additional needs that may be warranted for their
management. Selected cultural and paleonwJogical sites may
have specific monitoring or excavation plans developed for
them. This depends upon the potential for impacts and other
circumstances that may affect individual cultural resources
or paleontological sites over time.

Support

The cultural resource management and the paleontological
program will receive the needed suport from the Bureau
of Land Management in conducting these programs. Support
will be needed from other resource specialists in the review
of cultural and paleontological resource management plans.

Public Lands Retention/Disposal/
Acquisition

Objectives

. To increase the overall efficiency and effectivness of public
land management by identifying public land suitable
for retention or disposal or lands needed for acquisition.

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