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Outstandingly Remarkable Tentativc Segment
<br />Segment Values Classification River Miles
<br />Scenery, recreation, wildlife, fish, W�Id A8.48
<br />Dolores River- McPhee To f3edrock Scenic 3.15
<br />gcology, ccology, aroheology
<br />Recreational 37.04
<br />3.7 Moab Field Officc
<br />The BLM Moab Field Office began its Wild and Scenic Rivcr Eligibility Swdy in 2002 and
<br />issued a Proposed RMP and Final filS on August I, 2008.'fhe final decision on suitability was
<br />made in the ROD, issued in October 2008. �l�he segment ofthe Colorado River (segment I) from
<br />the Colorado/Utah statc line to Westwater Canyon was found eligible, but not suitable in the
<br />ROD. River segments of watercourses determincd suitable that Flow [hrough both ticld ot�ice
<br />jurisdictions are shown bclow:
<br />Outstandingly Remarkable Classification Segment
<br />Values River Mi
<br />Colorado River 2- Westwater Canyon, Scenery, recreation, wildlite, tish, Wild I;
<br />Mile 125, to River Mile I 12 culwral, geologv. ecological
<br />Colorado River 3- River Mile I 12 [o Recreation, wildlife, fish, cultural, Scenic 93
<br />confluence �vith the Dolores River ecoloeical Recreational 1.9
<br />Colorado River 4- ConFluence with the Scenery, recrea[ion, wildlife, fish, kecreational 53.5
<br />Dolores Rivcr to mile 49 ncar Potash cultural, geology, ecological
<br />Colorado River 5- River Ylile 44S to Scenery, recreation, wildlife, fish, Scenic 6.8
<br />Mile 38.5 State land boundarv cul�ural. ecoloeical
<br />Colorado River 6- River Mile 37.5 Scenery, recrcation, wildlife, fish, Scenic 3.8
<br />State land to Mile 34 Canyonlands NP cul[ural, ecological
<br />Dolores River I- Colorado-Utah Scenery, recrealion, wildlife, tish, Recreational 59
<br />Sta[eline to Fisher Creek geology, ecological
<br />Dolores River 2- Fisher Creek to Scenery, recreation, wildlife, fish, Scenic 6.2
<br />[3ridge Canyon geoloqy, ecological
<br />Dolores River 3- E3ridge Canyon to Recreation, wildlife, fish, Recmation.al 23.G3
<br />Colorado River �eoloKy, ecoloGical
<br />3.8 Colorado and Lo�vcr polores Rivers Studv
<br />n 1975 amendment to the WSR nct required that sections of the Colorado River and lower
<br />Delores River in West Colorado and castern Utah be analyzed as "study rivers." In 1979, the
<br />NPS completed the required s[udy. 'I his study recommended designation of sections of the
<br />Colorado and the Dolores Rivers that fall under the jurisdictions of the Moab and GJI�O's of the
<br />BLM. River segments determined suitable in thc 1979 report are shown below.
<br />Outstandingly Remarkable
<br />Values
<br />Tentative Segment
<br />Classification River Miles
<br />Colorado River A- Loma Launch to Scenery, recreation, geology, fish, Scenic 27.7
<br />Westwater ('anyon wildlife, archeology
<br />Colorado Kiver B- Westwater Canyon, Scenery, recreation, geology, fish,
<br />to Rose Ranch wildlife, amhcology W�Id 13
<br />Colorado River C- Rose Ranch to pish, wildlite, archeology Scenic I I
<br />Cisco W'ash
<br />N'ild and Scenic River Eligibility Report, Grand Junction Field Office, Colorado 3 3
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