WSP05313

• File Number: 8200.766
• Description: Gunnison River General
• State: CO
• Basin: Gunnison
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 3/1/1991
• Author: BLM
• Title: Gunnison Resource Area - Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement - Draft - Beginning to Chapter 3
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

SUMMARY

Table S-l (Continued)

SUMMARIZED COMPARISON OF THE MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES

RE-
SOURCE/
RE-
SOURCE
USE

MANAGEMENT UNDER EACH ALTERNATIVE

ALTERNATIVE A
(Continuation of
Current
Management)

ALTERNATIVE B

ALTERNATIVE C

ALTERNATIVE D

ALTERNATIVE E
(Preferred
Alternative)

WILDUPB
HABITAT
MANAGB-
MI!NI'
(Cont'd)

Lake Pork ACEC (4,800
acres) managed to prevent
disturbance to wintering
elk and deer, and seasonal
disturbance to lambing
bighorn sheep.

FISHERY
RE-
SOURCES
(AQUATIC
HABITAT)

Revise area~widc HMP to
include site specific fishery
improvement projects or
strategies developed from
inventory information to
first prioritize, then
restore and enhance
fISheries.

Intensively manage 74
miles of fllihcl)' streams
on public land in Man.
agement unit B-9 to
improve conditions.

North Willow Creek in
allotment 6202 allowed to
recoYer by eliminating
livestock grazing.

Require measures to
prevent deterioration and
damage to fIShery streams
in all plans involving
surfacc disturbance.

Same as under Alternative
A, and in unit C-9,
conditions in and along 10
miles or slreams within
1,117 acres of big game
riparian zones would be
improved.

Same as under Alternative
A, and within Lake Port
ACEe, emphasize with
other resources, the
fIShing recreation oppor-
tunity.

Intensively manage and
improve conditions along
fIShery streams in unit D-
11 and D-13 containing
116 miles or riparian
zones (12,654 acres).

Install compatible fIShery
improvement project5 in
unit D-19.

Same as under Alternative
A, and fIShery streams and
associated riparian areas
managed to improve
overall conditions and to
enhance fisheries.
Projects for f16hery im-
provement to be included
in activity plans 86 they
are prepared or revised.

InteMively manage 58
miles of fIShery streams
on public land in Man-
agement Unit &-15 to
improve conditions.

Nonh Willow Creek in
Require measures to allotment 6202 would be
prevent deterioration and allowed to recover by
damage to r15hery streams eliminating livestock
in all plans involving grazing.
surface disturbance.

Compatible
permitted in
Powderhorn
area SRMA

projects
unit &2,
Primitive

Require measures to
prevent deterioration and
damage to fIShery streams
in all plans involving
surface disturbance.

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