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<br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />defleotors, and other stream improvements oreated by the landowner. <br /> <br /> <br />Minor diversions supply water for irrigated pastures. a small plot <br /> <br /> <br />of oropland, and four trout ponds oomprising 9 aores whioh have been <br /> <br /> <br />oonstructed for sport fishing and stooking purposes (Plate 4). <br /> <br /> <br />Sunnyside Creek is similar to Bellows Creek, although muoh smaller <br /> <br /> <br />and without stream ilIIprovements. Shallow Creek is also small. Deep <br /> <br /> <br />Creek is a steep. rooky, heavily wooded stream whose water is largely <br /> <br /> <br />diverted for irrigation within the impoundment site. Farmers Creek <br /> <br /> <br />does not flow in drouth periods and is a poor fishing stream for the <br /> <br /> <br />mileage to be affeoted. Cyanide pollutants from the tailings pond <br /> <br /> <br />of a froth-flotation mill at Creede, COlorado, have destroyed the <br /> <br /> <br />lower mileage of WillOlr Creek as a trout fishery. This pollution, <br /> <br /> <br />however, has not proved detrilllental to the Rio Grande below the mouth <br /> <br /> <br />of Willow Creek. <br /> <br />Speoies present <br />23. The geme fish in the Rio Grande above the South Fork, <br />and in the major tributaries whioh enter this area, are rainbow <br />trout, brown trout. eastern brook trout, and outthroat trout. Of <br />these four speoies, rainbow trout oomprise roughly one-half of ins <br />harvest and brown and eastern brook trout most of the remainder. <br />The proportion of brown trout harvested inoreases fran Del Horte to <br />Monte Vista and, at the latter and more downstream looation, they <br />comprise the bulk of the game fish taken. Throughout the projeot <br />area, suokers and freshwater soulpins are the major speoies of non- <br /> <br />game fish. <br /> <br />Utilization <br />24. Most tributary streams affeoted by the project reoeive <br /> <br />1177 <br /> <br />11 <br /> <br />