Laserfiche WebLink
SPECIES STATUS <br />Federal State <br />Kit Fox (Vulpes macrotis) E <br />Townsend's Big-eared Bat (pale ssp) (Corynorthinus townsendii <br />pallescens) SC <br />Botta's Pocket Go her rubidus ss Thomom bottae rubidus SC <br />Northern Pocket gopher (macrotis ssp)(Thomomys talpoides <br />macrotis SC <br />Clay-loving Wild-buckwheat (Eriogonum pelinophilum) E <br />Uinta Basin Hookless Cactus (Sclerocactus glaucus) T <br />FC = Federal Candidate Species <br />E = Endangered Species <br />T = Threatened Species <br />SC = State Species of Special Concern (not a statutory category) <br />(References: http://wildlife.state.co.us/species_cons/list.as~ and <br />http://ndis.nrel.colostate.edu/wildlife.as~ and <br />http://www.natureserve.or~/explorer/servlet/NatureServe?post processes=PostReset&loa <br />dTemplate=nameSearchSpecies.wmt&Ty~e=Reset and Personal communication, Steve <br />McCall, USBR, Grand Junction, March 30, 2004 ) <br />Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Federal Reserve Water Right and <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board Instream Flow <br />The Department of the Interior and Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) <br />entered into an agreement regarding federal reserve water rights and a Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board instream flow right for the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National <br />Park between the Gunnison Diversion Dam through the Black Canyon to the confluence <br />with the north fork of the Gunnison River. (Agreement, Black Canyon National Park of <br />the Gunnison National Park, Department of the Interior, April, 2003) <br />The flow right was divided into two parts: <br />1. A Federal Reserve right of 300 cfs, or natural flow, whichever is less with <br />a 1933 priority date. The federal water right satisfied the CWCB's <br />existing instream flow decree <br />2. An instream flow water right under Colorado law with a 2003 priority <br />date. <br />For the 2003 instream flow right, if Blue Mesa Reservoir fills and spills by July 31 in any <br />year, water beyond that which satisfies present and future obligations of the authorized <br />purposes of the Aspinall Unit shall be held by the CWCB for decreed instream flow <br />purposes with a 2003 priority date. <br />