WSP02419

• File Number: 8220.127.I
• Description: Savery-Pot Hook Project
• Basin: Yampa/White
• Water Division: 6
• Date: 10/30/1976
• Title: Public Hearing on the Draft Environmental Statement Savery-Pot Hook Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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1 reducing the project's impact on wildlife. These included state

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2 payment for game damages to private property. acquisition of

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3 key tracts of land for dedication to wildlife together with

4 enticing game herds to use this land, and reduction of game herds

5 by increased hunting.

6 Among alternatives favored by the commission were that

7 the costs for materials needed to prevent wildlife damage be

8 included as project costs and continued on a year to year basis,

9 that the land owners waive their right to claim wildlife damages

10 from the state, that these damages be assessed as project's costs

II or that game range lands be purchased.

12 Regarding the issue of fishing easements, the commission

13 indicated a willingness to attempt acquisition through private

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14 negotiations with individual land owners.

15 I commend the Game and Fish Commission and Department for

16 their willingness to consider these mitigation and enhancement

17 alternatives and for the Commission's express support of the

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18 project. I am confident that if the parties continue their barga n-

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ing in good faith, that all issues can be resolved satisfactorily

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Of the alternatives for wildlife impact mitigation, I

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consider the most viable to be that of providing fencing material

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to the land owners for construction of deer and elk-proof hay

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storage areas and in any event, I cannot overemphasize the import-

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ance of arriving at mitigation and enhancement solutions which

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are acceptable to the people who will have to live with them,