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

4. Williams Fork of the Yampa River
Recommended management strategies/options:
1) Manage existing lakes and streams within Intensive, 5)
Optimum, and Special Management categories as
designated.
2) Manage Beaver, Indian Run, Pagoda, Slide, Rough, 6)
Upper Poose, and Bunker creeks: the two headwater
reaches of the South Fork of the Williams Fork River, 7)
and Vaughn Lake for pure populations of Colorado
River cutthroat trout.
3) 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.
4) Assess any of the lakes or streams included in
Categories 200 and 221 for potential as Colorado River
cutthroat trout habitats.
Expand management of the South Fork of the Williams
Fork above the Beaver Creek confluence, the Poose
Creek drainage, and Bunker Creek for Colorado River
cutthroat trout habitats when feasible.
Inventory alpine amphibian habitats above 7,000 ft
elevation for boreal toad breeding and nursery sites.
Initiate baseline herptile, mollusk and crustacean
inventories as agency resources permit.
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