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Additional values were defined as also being important: <br />General <br />• the area's sense of remoteness <br />• Hermosa drainage contains almost no private property (it is rare for such a large <br />watershed to be mostly publicly- owned) <br />• there is accessibility to the area and multiple access points <br />• existence of biodiversity and large blocks of road -less, un- fragmented land, providing <br />ecological continuity and integrity; the area represents many major life zones and <br />has large areas of intact old- growth and healthy ponderosa pine forest <br />Economic <br />• grazing <br />• outfitting <br />• hunting <br />Fish Species <br />• species in the Hermosa Creek main stem and many of the tributaries of <br />Hermosa Creek drainage include, but are not limited to: rainbow, brown, <br />brook, hybridized and pure strain Colorado River cutthroat trout, and <br />other wild trout populations <br />Plants <br />• presence of a G2 community of white fir - Colorado blue spruce - narrow leaf <br />cottonwood /Rocky Mountain maple, considered globally imperiled, as measured on a <br />scale of G1 -G5 by the Colorado Natural Heritage Program <br />Recreation <br />• AN use (motorized) <br />• horseback riding <br />• hiking <br />• mountain biking <br />• ^FCT eC-. hi <br />• Snowmobiling- , fneuntain biking, ete. <br />*-Other <br />Hermosa Creek Workgroup Final Report: Second Draft 11/2/09 FiFst DFaft: 10/28/09 8 <br />