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<br />Table 11-1. Arapahoe National Forest Drainage Area Above Kremmling
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<br />Drainage Area Total N.F. Wilderness Treatable
<br />Total National Forest 561,ODrl- 83,0,0,0, 334,60,0, /
<br />CBT 148,0,0,0, 55,0,0,0, 65,10,0,
<br />Windy Gap 271,000, 66,0,00, 143,50,0,
<br />Englewood Cabin/Meadow 14,0,0,0, 10,0,00, 2,800,
<br />DWB N. Fork Ranch Creek 7,00,0, 1,0,00, 4,200,
<br />DWB Fraser Project 54,00,0, 0, 37,800,
<br />DWB W. Fork Rep./Exch. 99,00,0, 0, 69,30,0,
<br />DWB Williams Fork Project 9,0,0,0, 0 6,30,0,
<br />Williams Fork Extension 8,0,0,0 0 5,600,
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<br />1. Also includes designated recreation areas.
<br />2. Assuming 70 percent of the non-wilderness area is treatable (not in
<br />meadows nor too steep).
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<br />C. Institutional
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<br />The uses which might be made of any Colorado River runoff increases which
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<br />could be produced by vegetation manipulation are dictated by a combination of
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<br />factors. Foremost among these factors is the hydrologic character of the
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<br />Colorado River Basin. Nearly as important are the physical changes which man
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<br />has made in the basin, including both land use changes in the watersheds and the
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<br />water diversion and control structures which affect flows in stream channels.
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<br />Also important explanatory factors are the various demands for water which exist
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<br />now and those which will exist in the future. The final set of factors which
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<br />will shape future water uses is the institutional framework which has evolved
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<br />over many years to order the relationships between people as they seek to
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<br />exploit a limited yet common resource. Those institutions may be grouped into
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<br />two broad categories: those which mediate water use conflicts between direct
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<br />water users within individual states and those which mediate conflicts between
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<br />units of government at the state and higher levels.
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