WSP05732

• File Number: 8507
• Description: Rio Grande Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Rio Grande
• Date: 8/1/1982
• Title: Sangre De Christo Wilderness Study Area Report - San Isabel & Rio Grande National Forests part 1
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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TABLE A
SU!lllARY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE CONSEQUENCES
ALTERNATIVES
Suitable Suitable with Modifications Unsuitable
Resource ~ (thousands) (thousands) (thousands)
PSI RG BLM PSI RG BtH PSI RG BLM
Wilderness
Area of Wilderness M Acres 87.2 130.7 4.9 62.8 125.6 3.3 -0- -0- -0-
Area of Nonwilderness M Acres -0- -0- -0- 24.4 5.1 1.6 87.2 130.7 4.9
Potential loss of None Increased Increased
wilderness character (With Management)
Minerals (including oil
and gas)
Cost of Exploration Increased Increased No Change
Likelihood of significant
mineral discovery and Decreased Decreased
development (After 1983) (After 1983) No Change
N Chance of conflicts with
0 wilderness values Increased Increased No Change
Mineral leasing effects
Geophysical Investigation M Acres 29.3 30.5 4.9 46.0 38.8 4.9 87.2 60.8 4.9
Leasable with surface
Occupancy M Acres 2.1 3.1 -0- 25.6 2.4 1.6 87.2 18.7 4.9
Leasable without
surface occupancy M Acres 27.2 27.4 -0- 20.4 36.4 -0- -0- 42.1 -0-
No Leasing M Acres 57.9 100.2 4.9 41.2 91.9 3.3 -0- 69.9 -0-
Minerals Reserved M Acres -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -0-

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Current annual allowable sale
quantity (slopes less than
45 percent) H Acres

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Long term sustained yield
Productive Forest land _
All Slopes H Acres

3.7 I1MBF -0- -0-

Slopes less than 45
percent M Acres

11.5 MMBF 0.3 MMBF -0-