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3. Middle Little Snake River <br />This drainage is located just west of the Slater Creek <br />drainage and shares the north-south drainage border with the <br />Fortification Creek drainage. This drainage includes a portion <br />of the mainstem Little Snake River that loops southward from <br />Wyoming into Colorado and back. Only 2 lakes (45 ac) and <br />13 streams (136 mi) are included in this drainage. One, 25 mi <br />stream reach (Fourmile Creek) is managed as a wild trout <br />fishery and one 22 mi stream reach (Willow Creek, WC <br />#22854) is managed for Colorado River cutthroat trout. The <br />remaining 11 streams (89 mi) and Fourmile Reservoir (25 ac) <br />are managed for the conservation of other native aquatic <br />wildlife. These streams are characterized as small, <br />intermittent, and seasonal with regard to flow, and likely attain <br />summer water temperatures and water quality conditions that <br />would support only warmwater fishes, if at all, or other aquatic <br />wildlife. All waters within this drainage have been classified <br />as protected habitat with respect to whirling disease (WD) and <br />can be stocked if necessary with WD negative fish only. <br />(Appendix C-Table 10) <br />Recommended management strategies/options: <br />1) Maintain existing waters designated within the <br />Optimum and Special Management categories as listed. <br />2) Manage Fourmile and Willow creeks as for wild trout <br />and native cutthroat trout, respectively. <br />3) Initiate baseline herptile, mollusk and crustacean <br />inventories as agency resources permit. <br />Native/Unique Sp <br />Wild trout <br />Figure 15. <br />DRAFT - January 13, 1998 <br />LAKES I STREAMS <br />ive/Unique Species <br />rado River <br />coat trout <br />Aquatic wildlife management by category in the <br />Middle Little Snake River drainage. <br />27 <br />r M i M M M= M M M= M M r= M M M M