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<br />" <br /> <br />Final Report <br /> <br />April 2004 <br /> <br />that the larger the watershed basin, the lower the number. First level HUCs are <br />the major river basins in the United States, such as the Colorado, Mississippi, or <br />Columbia, ranging downward in size to the larger numeric levels. The Gunnison <br />River basin and the Upper Colorado River basin are characterized as 2nd level <br />HUCs. The 7th, 6th and 5th level HUCs were evaluated in this planning effort and <br />data were usually sorted and quantified to the 7'h level watershed. A 7th level <br />HUC would generally have a watershed area of/ess than 10,000 acres. <br /> <br />Not precluded - Not eliminating or ignoring those factors or values iD the <br />process of developing other uses. <br /> <br />Preserve - To keep in its current or existing condition, not provide for change. <br /> <br />Protect - To ensure the continued existence of an existing value or use. <br /> <br />Recognize - To formally state the presence of an act, law, regulation, right or <br />statute. <br /> <br />Restoration - The act of returning a system or hydrologic regime to some level <br />or semblance of a former condition, not necessarily in the exact form or condition, <br />but to a functional state with similar or like attributes. <br /> <br />Seek - To pursue through legal or management actions a desired outcome or <br />result. <br /> <br />Self-sustaining - Pertaining to natural resource functions or populations that are <br />able to reproduce or perpetuate themselves naturally and without human <br />assistance or intervention. <br /> <br />Scrutinize - Review and evaluate new water development permit applications <br />with respect to overall instream flow needs for the watershed and only entertain <br />those new applications where baseline recreational and ecological values are not <br />unacceptably impaired. <br /> <br />Species of concern - Those plant or animal species whose habitat have a flow <br />related component and that, because of limited populations or declining habitat, <br />have become reduced in number or are no longer able to sustain themselves <br />naturally in the environments where they traditionally have been found and <br />therefore have received special recognition and management emphasis by federal <br />or state agencies. These species include federally listed threatened and <br />endangered species that have flow-dependent habitats. <br /> <br />Unacceptable impairment - A degradation of a value to the point that it is not <br />functioning. <br /> <br />- 15 - <br />