WSP06758

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

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Approximately 42 percent (923,000 acres) of the Pike
and San Isabel National Forests are available for
motorized recreation use to meet motorized use needs
identified in the State Comprehensive Outdoor
Recreation Plan.

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Current recreation use was estimated to be 15,300
visitor days in 1981. This was comprised of 12,800
visitor days for various dispersed nonmotorized
activities, 1,500 visitor days for hunting and 1,000
visitor days for fishing.

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The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Classification
shows 48,700 acres (86 percent) in the semiprimitive
nonmotorized class and 8,250 acres in the roaded
natural category (14 percent) as shown on Figure 8.
The roaded natural areas receive this classification
due to the proximity of roads and other developments
near the boundary, rather than being roaded
themselves.

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Cultural Resources

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No cultural resource sites have been identified in
the WSA, though intensive surveys have hot been
made. The overall area has been used widely in
prehistoric times, presumably for huntng with
transient camps, and historically for hunting,
prospecting, and logging. It is likely that
intensive surveys would reveal evidences of these
past uses.

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13. Non-National Forest Lands

The study area is entirely National Forest land
except for parts of two patented mining claims which
are located on the boundary in Sections 34 and 35,
T.12S., R.78W., 6th P.M., as shown in Figure 9.
These claims have no effect upon access or use of
the area, and can be excluded by a minor boundary
adjustment and deletion of about 20 acres of the
WSA.

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