PROJ00527

• Contract/PO #: FS0024X
• Contractor Name: Florida Water Conservancy District
• Contract Type: Loan
• Water District: 0
• County: La Plata
• Loan Projects - Doc Type: Feasibility Study

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Forest lies within the Region's Social Resource Unit K for which
the eastern boundary is the Continental Divide, the northern
boundary the San Juan Mountain Range, the southern delineation the
Sou thern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservations and the
western perimeter, the desert of Utah. Within the SRU's are
smaller units, as defined by the USFS, called Human Resource
Unit's (HRU's) which are areas characterized by unique patterns of
life-styles, economic conditions, institutional arrangements and
topography. The HRU's vary in size, may cross political jurisdic-
tions and are more often than not larger than individual towns and
communities.

According to the USFS' s "Land and Resource Management Plan,
San Juan National Forest, September 1983", Lemon Dam and Reservoir
lie wi thin the Animas HRU. This unit is described below as it
appears in the Land and Resource Management Plan.

5.7.1 Animas Human Resource Unit
"The Animas Human Resource Unit (HRU) is bounded on the west
by a line running essentially from Red Mountain Pass southwest to
the New Mexico border. This line crosses U. S. Highway 160 just
west of Hesperus. The northern boundary of the HRU is the Conti-
nental Divide. The eastern border runs south from the Divide a
few miles east of the Los Pinos River down to the New Mexico line.

The entire HRU is dependent on Durango as a primary trade and
service center and as a recreation visitor entry point. The bulk
of the unit is in La Plata and San Juan Counties.

5.7.2 Lifestyle
The Animas HRU is moderately urbanized, especially in the
Durango area, but the rural mountain lifestyle still prevails.
Durango is the primary trade center, and is the "gateway,,1 to the
HRD and to the San Juan National Forest. Logging, ranching and

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