WSP08347

• File Number: 7630.125
• Description: Wild and Scenic - Colorado Wilderness Act - 1991
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/1/1990
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Colorado Heritage Preservation Act - Area-By-Area Descriptions
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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January 1990

DAVIS PEAK

ACREAGE: 8,100 acres in the wilderness study Area

DESIGNATION RECOMMENDATIONS:
FOREST SERVICE ARMSTRONG
8,100 9,800

WIRTH
36,000

FOREST: Routt
COUNTY: Jackson County
Land Area PUblic Land
sq. miles % of total
1,614 51

Forest Service
land %
32

LOCATION: Approximately 33 miles northwest of Walden and adjacent
to Mount Zirkel wilderness.

RECOMMENDATION: The Forest Service recommendation is proposed for
designation with an expansion to the eastern edge of the study
area. This compromise would allow for protection of the area while
ensuring the continuation of vegetation treatment and timber
harvest programs that will improve watershed management, and will
not interfere with motorized recreation or timber management
currently being carried on outside the study area. The expansion
to the east beyond the study area has no known conflicts.

GENERAL FEATURES: This area is formed by rounded peaks and broad,
deeply glaciated valleys. Elevations range from 8,600 to 10,900.

SPECIAL FEATURES: Dinner Peak to south Hog Park Creek is one of
the highest producing watersheds in the state.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: The area was studied during RARE II and
allocated to further planning by the 1980 Colorado wilderness Act.
The study area has been recommended as suitable for wilderness by
the Forest Service. Forest Service lands outside the study area
were released by Congress in 1980 for multiple use management, and
have been managed accordingly by the Forest Service.

RELATION TO OTHER WILDERNESS: There are 3 other wilderness areas
within a 50-mile radius of the area -- totaling 223,480 acres. The
proposed area is contiguous to the Mount Zirkel Wilderness.

VEGETATION: The majority (72%) of the area is forested, mostly with
spruce fir. There are dense stands of spruce, fir and lodgepole,
with small groups of aspen interspersed among the conifer. Much of
the forested portion is very steep. The remaining area is
grassland, most of which is meadowland located in drainage bottoms
on the Main and West Forks of the Encampment River.

WILDLIFE:
deer, elk
Wyoming.

Big game species in the area include black bear, mule
and a few bighorn sheep that drift into the area from

FISHING:

Fishing opportunities are varied.

THREATENED AND ENDANGERED SPECIES: No species has been identified.