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<br />TABLE IV
<br />S~~Y OF STREAM SAMPLES
<br />HADE BY THE COLORADO DIVISION
<br />OF WILDLIFE - PIEDRA RIVER snroY
<br />
<br />Species.
<br />In Salll'ple
<br />
<br />!srilllated Pounds
<br />Per Acre*'"
<br />
<br />Salllpl" Location
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<br />Middle Fork. East Toner Bridge
<br />Last Fork, Above Diversion ~itch
<br />Piedra River, At Piedra Picnic Area
<br />Piedra River, Above first Fork Bridge
<br />Piedra River, At lower Campground
<br />Piedra River. Above lTes Piedns Ranch
<br />"A - Sculptn, B - Brolom Trout, C - Rainbolol'
<br />F - Dace, C - Suckers. H - Bullheads, 1 -
<br />."lncludt:saUspecles
<br />...Fifty-nine percent of Bia-mass resulted
<br />
<br />A.S,C,D
<br />A,D.E
<br />A,8,C,E
<br />A,S,C.e
<br />A.B,.
<br />A.B,CtD,C,H.!
<br />Trout. 0 - Cutthroat
<br />Kokance
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<br />"
<br />,
<br />"
<br />17
<br />4
<br />97."
<br />Trout, E - Brook
<br />
<br />Trout,
<br />
<br />fromsuckel'S
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<br />Range; There are four dome.!ltic sheep allotments and twelve cattle allotlll'.'ntlil in the Piedt'B
<br />Valley. Ten of these allotments contain segments of the river corridor. Twenty families depend
<br />partially On the forage of these Satiou.l Yorest lands for maintenance of their livestock.
<br />Table V displays the livestock grazing on National Yorest lands within the Piedra Valley which
<br />also includes the limited amount of grazing within the river corridor.
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<br />Raoge cooditions are presently considered to be generslly good. Future trends in the amount of
<br />grazing will remain fairly static because the potential fat increasing grazing capacity through
<br />vegetative ~nipulation and other range improve~nts is fairly limited.
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<br /> TABLE V
<br /> GRAZING AU.onn:.:rrs
<br />Sallie Acres Penllitted U..
<br /> Gross Useable Range NUlllbers AUM's'*
<br />Sheep Allotments
<br />Hossick Canyon 16,100 3,200 900 2,110
<br />l'Iiddle Fork 19,000 4,000 700 1,750
<br />Deadman 11,500 2,600 900 2,130
<br />First Fark 17 ,400 4,900 Inactive
<br />Total 64,000 14.100 2,580 '>,990
<br />Cattle Allorments
<br />'Sheep Creek 6,200 1,000 160 620
<br />'l>udley Creek 26,700 10,000 200 920
<br />*WCIIlinuche ],100 1,900 80 360
<br />Drift Fence 5,000 3,100 340 1,240
<br />lJlll1alllll Creek l.COO 1,300 90 380
<br />Divide Park 4,COO 3,600 290 1,290
<br />Teall Creek 3,700 ],300 180 730
<br />'Middle York 4,300 1,700 170 780
<br />*East Fork 1,200 2,800 170 780
<br />PagossPeak 15,100 10,100 1,330 5,100
<br />'Free!l.4n 12,300 6,300 120 '70
<br />!1osca 8,200 4,100 270 1.080
<br />'Mesa-Horse Htn. 24,900 21,300 290 1,060
<br />Total 12],100 70,500 3,660 14.910
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<br />'Contain segments of the River Ccrridor
<br />"Animal Unit Month - One animal grazing fnr one ~nth.
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<br />Ti~er: The forested areas of the Piedra Valley and adja~ent valleys have been the mainstay of
<br />~eas important e~onocic sect~r: lumber and wood products. Three sa~ills (two in Pagosa
<br />Springs and one in Chama) rely On timber from the basin. Over the past ten years these cills
<br />have utilized an average ]2.9 million board feet per year. The SOurCe of the timber ior these
<br />mJlls in the past has been Sstional Forest lands from Rayfield eastward to the Forest boundary
<br />on the Continental Divide.
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