Decision Memo Completed

Coal Creek Reclamation Planning Project

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests & Thunder Basin National Grassland Garfield, Colorado Yampa Ranger District

This project would involve notching 20 beaver dams along East Coal Creek to help plan a native fish reclamation project. Notching would allow estimates of the change in habitat complexity and the timing and volume of flows.

Location

Southwest of Yampa, CO approximately 7 miles

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
05/06/2013
2
Decision
03/2014 (Estimated)
3
Implementation
04/2016 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6)
Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment RegulationNot Subject to Regulations
Project ActivitySpecies Habitat Improvements; Species Population Enhancements
Coal Creek Reclamation Planning ProjectDecision Signed Date: 03/11/2014
ForestsMedicine Bow-Routt National Forest
DistrictsYampa Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionTownship 1 North, Range 86 West, Section 5
Wildlife, fish, rare plants