WSP06167

• File Number: 8220.100.40
• Description: CRSP
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 6/30/1974
• Author: USDOI
• Title: Eighteenth Annual Report on the Statuts of the Colorado River Storage Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

Jack Reservoir in Colorado: Bottle Hol.
low, Starvation, and the enlarged Straw.
berry Reservoirs in Utah; and Meeks
Cabin Reservoir in Wyoming.

Two national fish hatcheries, developed
with Colorado River Storage Project
funds, are performing important roles
in the joint State. federal approach to
meeting hsh':iotocking requirements:

1. Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery is
located in a deep canyon on Jones
Hole Creek near Dinosaur National
Monument in northeastern Utah.
This year's production, one million
cutthroat. brown, and rainbow trout,
is about 50 percent of capacity. Most
of the fish are used to stock flaming
Gorge, fontenelle, and Steinaker
Reservoirs, and the Green River be.
low Flaming Gorge and fontenelle
Dams.

2. Hotchkiss National Fish Hatchery is
located on the North Fork of the Gun.
nison near Hotchkiss, Colo. Its out.
put of 2,750,178 rainbow trout went
principally for stocking requirements
at Blue Mesa, Crawford, lemon, and
Silver Jack Reservoirs in Colorado,
Navajo Reservoir in Colorado and
New Mexico, and lake Powell in Ari.
lona and Utah.

One National W.ldllfe Refuge and three
waterfowl areas under State administra.
tion are being developed In connection

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with the Colorado River Storage Project:

1. Seedskadee National WildlIfe Refuge
lies along the Green River below
Fontenelle Dam, Wyoming. Admlnis.
tration by U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service of aCQuired and public lands
for wildlife management purposes
began in 1966. The land use plan
for this area requires purchase of
approximately 11.900 additional
acres of land to be used for water.
fowl management purposes in con.
Junction with adjoining publicly
owned land. land purchase negotia.
tions continued during the year.

2. Browns Park Waterfowl Management
Area, under administratIon of the
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, is
located below Flaming Gorge Reser.
vo.r on the Green River near the Utah.
Colorado State line. Management
area headquarters have been com.
pleted, and 270 acres of impounded
water and related waterfowl food
plots have been developed at two
major s.tes. A canal was constructed
during 1973 to provide water for a
third site to develop an additional
120 acres of pond.marsh habitat for
waterfowl, together With an expansion
of the acreage of wildlife food plots.
The overall management area is al.
ready attracting appreciable numbers
of resident and migratory game bird
populations and is increasing in pub.

Ilc popularity, both as a fishing and
as a hunting site.

3. Miller Mesa Waterfowl Area is 10'
cated on the west shore of the Navajo
ReserVOir just south of the Colorado.
New Mexico State line. A small reser.
voir and two terrace ponds have been
completed and are full. About 170
acres of agricultural land have been
planted fOr wildlife management pur.
poses to' barley, oats, wheat. and al.
falfa. The area has not yet been
opened to hunting. Waterfowl use
pallerns Indicate that birds from
other agflcultural and resting areas
in the San Juan Valley are using the
M.ller Mesa sIte with increasing fre.
Quency.

4. Desert lake Waterfowl Management
Area comprises 2.480 acres of ac.
QUlred and pubhc domain land 10'
cated in eastern Utah near Hunting.
ton North Reservoir. Administered by
the Utah DIvision of Wildlife Re-
sources since January 1968, the
area's contnbutlOn to waterfowl reo
sources management was significant.
Iy Increased by rehabilitation of the
histOriC Desert lake Dike and com.
p:etion of five additional diked areas
below the existing impoundment.
These structures are all fdled and
the lakes are llsed by resident and
game bird populations and migra.
tory water/owl. Effectiveness of the