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:'r ttay 29, 1973 Dr. J. L. Daher .•~ W. E. Sowards Trip to Denver, Steamboat Springs, and Craig, Colorado . ray 23 - 25, 1973 .- .... . . PURPOSE: • To meet with local SCS and BL11 personnel in the Craig-Steamboat Springs area and Colorado Wildlife personnel In Denver regarding • the Yampa project. Colorado Dl vision of Wildlife: May 25, 1973 1 met with the follaNing Colorado Division of lllldlife personnel In •. Denver: ~.•. ... •: Dob Hoover 4later Resource Specialist LDW • _ ~ .. Don Smith Water Resource Specialist CDW •~ -• • . Pete barrows CDW - .. ~ •lvan Wescoatt CDW .; Wayne Savards Environmental Enginoer UII '~ tie i.ol„r:.do Wildlife Commission has taken an official po-lt'.,r opposed [o all strip mining, iio•.vever, personnel we have been in ,ti:~ ~~ : ... contact with indicated a arillingness to approach the Yampa Project • on a more objective basis, They do foe) !hat Stearns-Rogers has ... not maintained close enough contact with their people. They would ~;~ like to see all of the reports from Ecology Consultants as they are made available to Stearns-Roccrs. They are no[ satisf(ed with ~•` •.., an edited Interpreted report from Stearns-Rogers and wish to . '~ review tho data and studies themselves. I feel this intcractlon "i should he Immediately Initiated. Substantlatlon for concluslonL ,'•" _and interpretations should not be denied interested agencies r:~' • Don Smith rnentloned that bravse transacts are presently established y. on the south slops of the !lilllams Forl< but none on the lease area to his knaNlcdge. It may be possible to tssume responsTbllty, ~~ aollaborata, or allow the wildlife personnel to run bro•+~se transacts •~;•. during tho operation of the mine. t• The wildlife .personnel noL•r feel an tmooundment for recreational purposes mir,;,t be anicnnblc to tl,c area. ~!r~wever, they feel UII t•:.,•„ should Investigate tl,e probability of winter fish kills Sn such an i:.. Impoundment. Oeep snow may block sunlight, stopping photosyn- '•~ thesis wl,lcl, may result In an oxygen deficiency for aquatic life. the inherent depth of an Impoundment developed in the final cut ~t~.'.•'•~ would buffer oxygen depletion by incrcastng tfic volurac of water .:~~~ and deereosinn tl,e productivity/cubic unit bnd hence decomposition.:: y. . aft oxygon con:::uning activity. if an impoundment was estabTl;Fed, • aq.!Fffort s;t,ould be extended [o placo it wl,crc continual ground water recl,org~ occurred, This should eliminate on oxygen deplatlen . ... . . ~ ., Problem. •