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Site Number Resource Class Resource Type Eli ibili <br />5RT996 IF Isolated Find not eligible <br />5RT1368 Prehistoric Open Camp eligible* <br />5RT1369 Prehistoric Open Camp eligible* <br />5RT1370 Prehistoric Open Camp eligible* <br />5RT2014 IF Isolated Find not eligible <br />5RT2017 IF Isolated Find not eligible <br />* SHPO concurrence <br />The General Land Office (GLO) plats for T5N, R87W from 1915 and T6N, R87W from <br />1887 and 1914, housed at the BLM-LSFO, were also examined as part of the file search. Three <br />houses and one area with ranch buildings appear on the GLO maps within the current project area. <br />One farmstead (5RT2746) was newly recorded in the same general location as a house shown on <br />the map for T6N, R87W. No trace of the other three houses/ranch buildings were located. <br />An historic trail is depicted on the 1887 GLO plat for T6N, R87W. Only a small portion of <br />this trail would have intersected with the current project but no traces of it were located in the field. <br />A named road, the Hayden to 20 Mile Park Road, appears on the 1914 GLO map for T6N, R87W, <br />Sections 6, 7, 8, 17, 20, 21, 28 and 33 and the 1915 plat for T5N, R87W in Sections 4, 9, 15, 22, 23 <br />and 24. Roads following the same general path as the historic road were located and were recorded <br />as an historic linear segment (5RT2749.1) where it passes through the current project area. Another <br />road appears on the T5N, R87W map from 1915 that intersects the Hayden to 20 Mile Park Road <br />just south of the reservoir in Section 9 and extends west through Sections 4, 5 and 6. A segment of <br />this road was also identified in the field and was documented as an historic linear resource <br />(5RT2748.1). <br />Other small local roads and several irrigation ditches were not recorded. The local roads <br />which appear on the GLO plats were not documented because they appear to be primarily short <br />connections between houses/ranches and local agricultural fields. In addition, field investigations <br />found little evidence of the three irrigation ditches depicted on the GLO maps. Possible evidence <br />of one irrigation ditch was visible around the northern base of the Nofstger Zeigler Reservoir dam <br />in T5N, R87W, Section 9. Around the base of the dam, there is some faint channeling that could be <br />man-made; however, there is no obvious head gate diverting water from the reservoir nor any culvert <br />buried under the road just north of the dam. Seepage from underneath the dam and the road enters <br />a natural drainage that flows north following a different path than that depicted on the GLO plat. <br />Large areas of the project area are either recently plowed fields or previously plowed fields that have <br />been replanted with wheatgrasses. It is likely that most of the evidence of the irrigation ditches <br />shown on the GLO plats has been destroyed by modern and historic agricultural activities or has <br />eroded into natural drainages and become unrecognizable. No new irrigation ditch segments were <br />documented as part of this inventory. <br />Two reservoirs, now called the Nofstger Reservoir and the Nofstger Zeigler Reservoir, <br />appear on the GLO maps. A'search of the Colorado Division 6, Middle Yampa River District (57) <br />waterrecords (http://cdss.state.co.us/DNN/WaterRights/tabid/76/Default.aspx.) yielded references <br />to the two reservoirs depicted on the 1915 map for T5N, R87W. The Nofstger Reservoir has a <br />11