WSP11214

• File Number: 8200.776
• Description: Uncompahgre River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 1/1/1983
• Author: West Slope Hydro Par
• Title: Before the United States of America Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Application for License for Major Project - Uncompahgre Valley Hydroelectric Project Number 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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drains.

These wetlands are,

for the most part,

narrow-

leafed emergent and shrub-dominated wetlands.

Other wet-

lands were identified as resulting from combinations of

water

Canal wetlands result from seepage

from

sources.

eight

major canals in the study area.

These wetlands

are

also primarily narrow-leafed emergent, shrub, and tree-domi-
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nated wetlands.

Wildlife

the mule deer is tbe principal big game species in the study

area although elk,

and mountain lion are also

black bear,

found occasionally.

~ule deer summer at higher elevations

and winter at lower elevation brushlands.

Large areas of

winter range are generally located immediately above the

irrigated areas; however, some deer winter in the study area

on scattered shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodlands inter-

spersed with agricultural lands.

In addition, resident deer

are found in the area primarily on forested and shrub wet-

lands.

As deer move between native cover and

irrigated

fields, they cross the canal systems particularly around the
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perimeter of the irrigated areas.

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