Environmental Assessment Completed

Roaring Fork Stream Restoration Project

Rio Grande National Forest Mineral, Colorado Rio Grande National Forest All Units

Colorado Parks and Wildlife is proposing to apply Rotenone to the Roaring Fork drainage in order to remove all nonnative fish prior to restocking with native Rio Grande cutthroat trout.

Location

Roaring Fork drainage upstream of Goose Creek in the Weminuche Wilderness approximately 15 miles south of Creede, CO.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
02/03/2014
2
Comment Period
03/14/2014
3
Objection Period Start
06/04/2015
4
Decision
07/2015 (Estimated)
5
Implementation
09/2015 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Special AuthorityNot Applicable / Other
Notice and Comment Regulation218 (2013) Non-HFRA
Project ActivitySpecial Use Authorizations; Species Population Enhancements
Roaring Fork Stream Restoration ProjectDecision Signed Date: 07/30/2015
ForestsRio Grande National Forest
DistrictsDivide Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionPortions of Township 40 N., Range 1E., Sections 19-33 and Township 39 N., Range 1E., Sections 5 and 6
Wildlife, fish, rare plantsSpecial use management