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<br />tram: lleMen Kaley 10: lIOug Kooomam <br /> <br />Dale: ti/1196 Time: 525:58 PM <br /> <br />Page 5 of <br /> <br />JUN-07-86 14.33 FROM. TROUT & RALEY PC <br /> <br />10.3038324466 <br /> <br />PACE . 4/ <br /> <br />necessary to bring auy endangered species or dm:atened species to the point at whIcb the <br />measures provided by thIs chapter IItC DO longer DeeeSS"ry." 16 U.S.C. ~ 1532(3) (emphasis <br />added). <br /> <br />4. The Forest SeIVice regulations require that Forest Plan "objectives shalI be determined <br />for threatened and endangered. species that &hall provide for. where possible, their remov'al <br />fromJisting as threatened and endangered species through appropriate conservation <br />measures." 36 CPR 219.19{a)(7). The ForeSt Plans for the National Foresls in the Rocky <br />Mountain Region provide that Forest SeIVice decisions On management of the national forests <br />must protect endangered species.' <br /> <br />S. The Arapaho-Roosevelt, Routt, Medicine Bow, and other l'laUonal Fotesls include lands <br />which are within the watershed oillie Platte River. The current Forest Plan for the <br />Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest acknowledges that atleast 24Q,OOO acre feet of additional <br />water may.be produced from management of ARNP !aDds: <br /> <br />The current mean annual water production fir the Foxest Is estimated to be about 1.97 <br />mDIfoo acre-feet per year (oot Including eStimates of yield from the Grassland). The <br />annual water yields from the Forest can be increased depending on the extent and <br />location of vegetation treatment .and/or $/JOW management activities, and the <br />constrainls of water quality m""'lgP.ment standards. A maximum increase of 240,000 <br />acre-feet per year, for a total of 2.21 million acre-feet per year, could be proVided <br />from the Forest without degiading Water quality.4 <br /> <br />~o-Roosevelt Foxest Plan at n-so (1984). s. The :Routt National Forest Management <br /> <br />. ,. .' . <br />S s<<, e.g;, AnpahC)o~t Foicst PIa aI m-37 (Forest DiIcclioo for "WiIdIift 1114 Fish Rcsouroe <br />;M"'W"'''ut"1hal apt:y -manage ~ 1114 eil4angeml qlCdcs to populatloo sI2les 1114 d.isIrlbutlon wbae <br />they _ DO laager tbreo1cued"). <br /> <br />4 Tho basis fur tho l$SOtIion of . W&lCr-<{Ullity bI$Odl;m"ofI"" OR !ho obIipoo. of & fe4cnl1fPJI'7! tlll4et- <br />i 7(&)(1) of lhcESA to recover threatato4 &l1li ""'~spcdcr Is lIJlcIeu. In pardaJlat, tho pIimaty w~ <br />quaIl.ty-<<l.a1Od impod.lflllY. of vqeWiOll DlllDagfaCllt is iaatased SiOIlimCZl1tliOll. A.ocotdiDg '" !be Flsh & <br />Wilcllife Sorvlce. scd"n...t~ _ Il'C cIcsin:d OOIIditiOllS tDrlbe pallid &tll.l>""'"" <br /> <br />$ Other foresuy agt.Ddes ogxee that veecl";"" ~"t''t==t em plO4uce onhstontl.l qumtilles of WIler. See. <br />o.g.. Colorado SUIo FoIeSt ServIce, Proposi1tg II FtJres/1)' Sohdiaotl>lmprow: CclcraM'/I WIlUrSupply 1II122-123: <br /> <br />HDman cxmtrol of forest fins IIId. lDscc:t OIltbrub III CoIoooo. a11ho1lgh f!~-Y. has <br />~ tho nallJral.fotest In'l':SS:S of gJ'OW1h. 4ecline. 1114 Il:~ou. or su=ssion. . . . <br />With oaIy1lmilOd ~ to CllO:llItage re:=enti0ll or ~oa. l:lIach of tho Ilole's forest <br />has pQWJl cblse 1114 1IJIIfom. ~ &bows 1hal demc.1IDlfonn tDRSJs yidd less wiler than <br />tOICSU diverse wilh opcuings. . _. ~ lithe Fnscr ExpcdmCll.ta1 FoIeSt shows an av""lfJ <br />30 pc=ut Inc:roase of snow WIler equlvalClll DCCIQS In smaI1 dear Clll$ IIId proporIioDaUy lesser <br />iJIaeasq follow vuioas Ievd$ of d!ntning or putial 0l%Ij.ug. FJu1Jw, DplimllDJ water' yidcls CIIl <br />be obJa!D.ed in CQow <:oUIIUy whCD "PP=inWdy 4Q pelCCI1t of tho w~ area is occupied by <br /> <br />4 <br />