9589

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9589
• Author: Colorado Division of Wildlife.
• Title: Aquatic Wildlife Management Plan Yampa River Basin, Colorado.
• USFW Year: 1998.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

1. Upper Yampa River
Recommended management strategies/options:
1) Manage existing lakes and streams within Intensive, 6)
Optimum, and Special Management categories as
designated.
2) Manage the Yampa River from the Elk River
confluence to the Bear River confluence, the lower
Bear River and Oak Creek below the Town of Oak
Creek as a stocked trout fisheries (Cat. #130); create
two catch-and-release sections.
3) Manage the Bear River above Yamcolo Reservoir and
Oak Creek above the town of Oak Creek as wild trout
streams with minimal stocking (Cat. 220, 221).
4) Change high lakes currently managed with stocked trout
which are most likely to result without stocking in
native aquatic wildlife communities without fish to
Special Management category 320. Only lakes with
unsatisfactory or marginal fisheries or those prone to
frequent winterkill will be targeted.
5) Assess any of the lakes or streams included in
Categories 200 and 221 for potential as Colorado River
cutthroat trout habitats.
7)
Assess predation impact of northern pike in the Yampa
River above the Elk River confluence and above
Stagecoach Reservoir and eradicate pike as feasible;
encourage angler harvest of pike in Stagecoach
Reservoir as primary control there.
Protect boreal toad habitats within the Soda Creek
drainage.
8) Continue to inventory alpine amphibian habitats above
7,000 ft elevation for boreal toad breeding and nursery
sites.
9) Initiate baseline herptile, mollusk and crustacean
inventories as agency resources permit.
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