8018

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8018
• Author: Irving, D. B. and B. D. Burdick.
• Title: Reconnaissance Inventory and Prioritization of Existing and Potential Bottomlands in the Upper Colorado River Basin 1993-1994.
• USFW Year: 1995.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

River site ranked the lowest (19th), whereas the two White River sites ranked
in the middle (oxbow: 15th; confluence: 10th).
Based on these rankings, there are five bottomland habitat areas in the
Green River. The top ranked areas are in the Ouray National Wildlife Refuge,
the next ranked areas in the Jensen to Brennan Bottom, followed by sites
downstream of Ouray._ The lowest ranked sites are in the Browns Park National
Wildlife Refuge and the area from Desert Spring and Moon Bottom to the Green
and Colorado river confluence.
Colorado River Drainage
There were 110 bottomland habitat sites inventoried in the Colorado
River and 48 sites in the Gunnison River. The highest rank was "1" and the
lowest "28". Unlike the Green River drainage, the top 13 ranked sites were
scattered among four general areas (Table 3; Figure 7). Several bottomland
sites had identical scores (rank 8th and 12th-two sites each; rank 9th and
Table 3. The top 13 ranked bottomland sites adjacent to the Colorado (CO) and
Gunnison (GU) rivers, 1993. Refer to Appendix F; Tables F-4 to F-10
for a complete list of ranked sites in the Colorado River sub-basin.
Rank General Area Site Description River: River Mile
1 18-mile Reach Walter Walker State Wildlife Area CO: 162.7-165.1
2 Delta Area Johnson Boy's Slough GU: 53.2- 54.2
3 15-mile Reach Clifton Pond Area CO: 177.7-178.2
4 Debeque Area Debeque 1-70 Slough CO: 209.6-211.4
5 15-mile Reach Labor Camp CO: 182.9-183.6
6 18-mile Reach Panorama CO: 163.1-163.6
7 Debeque Area Stoddard Property CO: 209.4-210.1
8 Delta Area Escalante State Wildlffe Area (North) GU: 50.8- 52.9
8 Delta Area Escalante State Wildlife Area (South) GU: 50.2- 52.4
9 Debeque Area Etter's CO: 204.7-206.6
9 15-mile Reach Humphrey's CO: 175.3-176.6
9 15-mile Reach Griffith's CO: 174.1-176.5
9 Debeque Area Latham's CO: 207.9-208.8
9 Debeque Area "No-name" CO: 206.2-207.5
10 18-mile Reach Walter Walker South CO: 164.4-166.0
10 18-mile Reach "No-name" CO: 169.4-169.6
10 18-mile Reach "No-name" CO: 161.0-162.0
10 Debeque Area Battlement Mesa CO: 220.7-221.7
11 15-mile Reach "No-name" CO: 181.7-182.2
11 Debeque Area "No-name" CO: 202.3-204.2
11 Debeque Area "No-name" CO: 201.9-202.4
11 Debeque Area EXXON CO: 218.9-220.1
11 Debeque Area Wallace Creek Island CO: 215.9-216.5
12 15-mile Reach "No-name" CO:, 183.3-184.2
12 15-mile Reach "Hotspot Junction" CO: 173.9-175.1
13 15-mile Reach Clifton Water Treatment CO: 179.1-181.1
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