9403

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9403
• Author: Office, C. U. P. C. A.
• Title: Upper Colorado River Basin Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Program
• USFW Year: 2002.
• USFW - Doc Type: Fiscal Years 1994-1998.
• Copyright Material: NO

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cathedral Springs and Brush Creek Springs, vital
water sources on state-owned big game summer
range, were fenced to protect against trampling.
Such damage reduces spring discharges, destroys
riparian vegetation and pollutes water supplies
needed for big game, cattle and other wildlife on
these remote, high elevation habitats.
Taking Wing
category of C
award were
Department
Reclamation.
i=ENRYS ~ 1 %hK `'vE'IT~3'~ L 5, a
series of managed ponds, emergent
marsh wetlands, and wet meadows
have provided over 300 acres of
waterfowl habitat adjacent to
Flaming Gorge Reservoir
(Sweetwater County). The project
improved valuable stop-over habitat
for migrating waterfowl in the vicinity
of three National Wildlife Refuges.
For its support of the project, the
Program was awarded the 2000
Award from Ducks Unlimited in the
ommunity Partnerships. Sharing the
the Forest Service, Wyoming
of Transportation and Bureau of