WSP01170

• File Number: 8277.500.10
• Description: Price and San Rafael Basin Unit - Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program
• State: UT
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1992
• Title: A Fish and Wildlife Coordnation Act Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Table XIV

Expenditures For Wildlife Oriented Recreation On Project Area - . 1985

Carbon

Emery

Total

Upland Game
(pheasants, quail. cottontail)
Mourning Dove
Waterfowl (Desert Lake only)
Trappers Pelt Value
Nonconsumptive Wildlife Oriented
Recreation (16 yrs. old & over)

$393.456
171.720
35,413
1, 696,085

$568.680
165.024
39.096
35.024
855,345

$962,136
336.744
39,096
70,437
2.551. 430
$3.959,843

Grand Total

'Estimates based on total expenditures in Utah. multiplied by the proportion
of hunter days spent in Carbon or Emery counties; or, in the case of
nonconsumptive use. by the proportion of the state's population in those
counties.

Source:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1988
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 1985
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, 1986a
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. 1986b

Waterfowl, primarily mallard. cinnamon teal. gadwall and Canada geese now
regularly using these wetlands for nesting. brood rearing and resting will no
longer have them available following project completion. While these losses
will not be significant when compared to the numbers of those species in the
Pacific Flyway, they will contribute to the overall Flyway population declines
that are of concern. Concerns over wetland loss has generated numerous laws,
orders. and rules and regulations requiring all Federal agencies to avoid
taking actions which will cause a net loss of wetlands, yet, over 400,000
acres are being lost annually, and some through Federal funding or other
assistance. Those laws, orders. and rules and regulations include, but are
not limited to; Executive Order 11990. Protection of Wetlands; National
Environmental Policy Act; Section 404 of the Clean Water Act; the Swampbuster
Provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985; and others which are supposed to
achieve wetlands protection. !

The loss of 4,846 acres of pasture/hay. 632 acres of grass/sedge, and 1,066
acres of riparian tree/shrub wetland types will reduce the vitally needed safe
nesting cover for ring-necke~ pheasants. Safe nesting cover is the most
important habitat pheasants and other ground nesting birds need under today's
farming practices. While safe nesting cover is the most important habitat
need for pheasants. winter cover is important too. Loss of rush/c~tA;~ ~
riparian tree/shrub, and to some extent. grass/sedge wetland types~rlT .;