Organizing for Endangered and Threatened Species Habitat

• File Number: 8461.100
• Description: Adaptive Management Workgroup ‎(PRRIP)‎
• State: CO
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Author: David M. Freeman Ph.D., Annie Epperson, Troy Lepper
• Title: Organizing for Endangered and Threatened Species Habitat
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1
CHAPTER ONE:
PROBLEM AND SIGNiFICANCE ....................................................................... 1
Questions ........................... I 1
Analytical Perspective ............................................................................................ 1
CHAPTER TWO:
CHANGE ON THE RNER AND THREAT TO SPECIES ................................. 6
The Traditional River ............................................................................................. 7
Platte .......................................................................................................... 7
Characteristics and Yalue of Ecosystem Services ..................................... 8
Habitat Change ....................................................................................................... 8
Habitat Requirements of Whooping Cranes, Piping Plovers, and Least Terns ..... 9
PaR'r II SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE CRISIS .................................................................... 1$
CHAPTER THREE:
GETTING INTO THE FEDERAL NEXUS ........................................................ 15
Two Traditions ..................................................................................................... 15
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) ................................................................... 16
National Envirorunental Policy Act (NEPA) ....................................................... 17
ESA and Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives ................................................... 18
Future Without A Collaborative Recovery Program ........................................... 18
CHAPTER FOUR:
COLORADO ENTERS THE FEDERAL NEXUS ............................................. 20
Colorado Nexus: Denver Water .......................................................................... 21
Colorado Nexus: Colorado-Big Thompson and the Northern Colorado Water
Conservancy District ................................................................................ 22
Colorado Nexus: Poudre River Mountain Reservoirs on U.S. Forest Service Lands
.................................................................................................................. 23
CHAPTER FIVE:
NEBRASKA AND WYOMING ENTER THE FEDERAL NEXUS ................ 24
Nebraska Context ..........................................................:...................................... 24
CNPPID/NPPD ........................................................................................ 24
Federat Energy Regutatory Commission (FERC) ................................... 26
Wyoming ............................................................................................................. 27
PART III STRATEGIC OPTIONS-LITIGATION, INDIVIDUAL PROJECT PERMITTING,
COOPERATIVE PROGRAM ............................................................................................... 30
CHAPTER SIX:
COLORADO'S STRUGGLE IN THE NEXUS-WILDCAT, NARROWS, TWO
FORKS,
AND BY-PASS FLOWS IN MOUNTAIN WATERSHEDS ............................. 31
Wildcat ................................................................................................................. 31
Narrows ................................................................................................................ 32