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Page 15 PUBLIC RECREATIONAL FACILITIES Information on the development of recreational facilities at the various project locations has been included in the narrative explanations of the specific unit or participating project. FISH AND WILDLIFE DEVELOPMENT The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife worked in cooperation with the various state fish and game departments to accomplish the following fish and wildlife developments during fiscal year 1967: (1) Blue Mesa, Flaming Gorge, and Navajo Reservoirs were stocked with 3.8 million fish from Federal hatcheries. Two-thirds of these were rainbow trout fingerlings. The newly-impounded Blue Mesa received 1.5 million of the fingerlings. The channel catfish and largemouth bass plantings were confined to Navajo Reservoir. In addition, state facilities provided numbers of brown trout, kol~nee salmon, and crappie for stocking in suitable portions of ~he reservoir system. (2) Construction continued on the 14-mile access road to Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery, Utah. The road contract for $1,171,685, awarded in F. Y. 1966, was modified in response to the flood conditions observed in July 1966. Plans for the hatchery site were also revised to include supplemental flood control features. Award of a contract for $728,986 was made June 12, 1967, for Phase II features of the diversion channel, water supply structures, and concrete raceways. Cost sharing arrangements by the Bureau of rand Management and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife were completed for fencing the access road right-of-way. (3) The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife continued operation of the Chipeta Rearing Unit, ao10rado. This unit, together with the North Fork Trout Farm, will be developed as the Delta National Fish Hatchery to serve the reservoir complex of the Curecanti Unit as well as the stocking requirements of nearby participating projects. The Delta National Fish Hatchery produced 65,000 pounds of rainbow trout during F. Y. 1967. At the North Fork Unit of the hatchery, options were obtained for 25 additional acres needed for access road alignment and borrow material required for road grade and site preparation. Progress also included near-completion of the $290,000 access road contract. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wild- life appraised, and negotiated for, potential public fishing easement areas on the Gunnison Ri ver and major tributaries above Blue Mesa Reservoir in cooperation with the Colorado Department of Game, Fish and Parks. Initial emphasis was placed on a key tract of 65 acres, which was optioned during F. Y. 1967. This area will implement both boating and bank-fishing use immediately upstream from the reservoir headwaters. other developments not mentioned in the above are included in the narrative explanations of the specific unit or participating project.