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<br /> <br />season as well. The hunters' needs for food. lodging. special clothing. <br /> <br />arms. amnunition, transportation. and other wants associated with <br /> <br />hunting represents a direot monetary outlay to harvest the game, even <br /> <br />though benefits from the sport are not measurable in financial terms. <br /> <br />Annual monetary expendi tures related to game resources affeoted by <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Wagon Wheel Gap Reservoir are $19.740 as shown in Table 10. With the <br />projeot, related monetary expenditures will be only $2.~O, a reduotion <br /> <br />of $17,100 in the gross annual volume of reoreational business. <br /> <br />Table 10-Annual Monetary Values Related to Wildlife Game Resouroes <br /> <br />Group <br /> <br />Wi thout the <br />Projeot <br /> <br />With the <br />Project <br /> <br />Differenoe <br /> <br />Big Game <br /> <br />$19.300 <br /> <br />$1,930 <br /> <br />-$17.370 <br /> <br />.. <br /> <br />Upland Game <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Waterfowl <br />Totals <br /> <br />$ 440 <br />$19.740 <br /> <br />$ 710 <br />$2,640 <br /> <br />$ 270 <br />-$17,100 <br /> <br />Fur Animals without the Project <br /> <br />62. Beavers are the only fur animals of any importance on <br /> <br />the reservoir area. The 12 present are divided almost evenly <br /> <br />between the Rio Grande and Bellows Creek. The food supply is <br /> <br />limi ted and the inorement must be removed annually to maintain <br /> <br />a balance between animals and food supply. Other fur animals are <br /> <br />the coyote, raccoon, mink. striped skunk, and muskrat. <br /> <br />Fur Animals with the Project <br /> <br />0' <br /> <br />63. Extreme fluctuations in reservoir water levels will <br /> <br />eliminate the beaver, and inundation will destroy practically all <br /> <br />the habitat for the few other fur-animal species. <br /> <br />35 <br /> <br />1153 <br /> <br />