Cottonwood Ranch: History, Settlement, AIP and Habitat

• File Number: 8461.300
• Description: Platte River Land Issues
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Author: Various
• Title: Cottonwood Ranch: History, Settlement, Liscensing, and Habitat
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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Program Habitat Lands to wildlife is also likely to be greater than could be achieved
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? Proposed Program and the broader resource base to support changes of direction.
As described in the AIP, the Districts provide and develop the first Program
? habitat complex, the approximately 2650-acre Cottonwood Ranch parcel, even before a
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complex by acquiring approx.imately 1200 acres below J-2 during the first eighteen
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Commirment.• .4IP, secrion IV.A.4
? NPPD cunently owns the Cottonwood Ranch property.

? Consistent with the AIP, NPPD's Proposed License Article 407 calls for NPPD to
provide Cottonwood Ranch for wildlife purposes withun one year of relicensmo. 'aa
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develoP the Cottonwood Ranch Parcel with the exPectation of Program
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- AIP, section IV.A.4.b; NPPD's Proposed License Article 407.
? 'R' See discussion in section IV.D. l.b below.

? 'R' AIP, section IV.A.4.b.
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