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N <br />Page Two <br />There is a G2 community of white fir - Colorado blue spruce - narrowleaf cottonwood /Rocky <br />Mountain maple, considered globally imperiled, as measured on a scale of G1 -G5 by the <br />Colorado Natural Heritage Program. <br />River Protections Currently in Place: Most of the Area is within the USFS 2001 Roadless <br />Rule boundaries and managed under this rule. The Area contains the largest roadless land <br />block under USFS jurisdiction in Colorado. The west side of Hermosa Creek, because of a lack <br />of disturbance, has an unbroken sequence of various life zones, which can serve as reference <br />areas for other parts of the San Juan National Forest. Therefore, there is potential for a <br />Research Natural Area. See also Water Quality, below. In addition, four Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board instream flows occur on the Hermosa Creek mainstem and a number of <br />tributaries: <br />CWCB Instream Flows <br />Stream Name <br />Amount (cubic feetisecond <br />"cfs" max/min <br />Big Bend Creek <br />1.5 0.5 <br />Big Lick Creek <br />2.0 0.75 <br />Clear Creek <br />5.0 1.5) <br />Corral Creek <br />1.5 <br />Deer Creek <br />1.5 0.50 <br />Dutch Creek <br />4.0 2.0 <br />East Fork Hermosa Creek <br />3 1.5 <br />Elk Creek <br />2.0 1.0 <br />Grassy Creek <br />2.0 <br />Hermosa Cr Headwaters Reach <br />9.0 <br />Hermosa Cr (Upper Reach <br />13 7.0 <br />Hermosa Cr Middle <br />21 14 <br />Hermosa Creek Lower <br />37 22 <br />Relay Creek <br />1 <br />Sig Creek <br />1 <br />South Fork Hermosa Creek <br />12 4.0 <br />West Cross Creek <br />0.5 0.25 <br />Contacts: <br />Southwestern Water Conservation District San Juan Citizens Alliance <br />970- 247 -1302 or ,vaten� frontier.ne, or 97Q- 259 -3583 or cwannerrc frontier ne,. 0 <br />