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Show Fork of the Duchesne River, 130 miles of the Duchesne River, and 10 miles of Rock Creek. Strawberry River was not included in the analysis. The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife has evaluated the existing hunting and fishing potential of the habitats that would be affected by the Bonneville Unite The total fishing value was estimated to be 800,900 mandays of recreation per year. The total value can be broken down into 361,500 mandays of cold water stream fishing, 275,200 mandays of cold water lake and reservoir fishing, and 164,200 mandays of warm water reservoir fishing,. The total annual hunting use of the Unit area was estimated to be 140,250 mandays consisting of 78,400 mandays of big game hunting,' 1 36,850 mandays of upland game hunting, and 25,000 mandays of waterfowl hunting.'' A Recreation and Wildlife Summary for 1972, -^ compiled by the Bureau of Reclamation, estimated the recreation utilization of Starvation and Strawberry Reservoirs at approximately 645,000 visitor- days. The main activities associated with reservoir recreation are sightseeing, picnicking, camping, swimming, water skiing, boating, fishing, and hunting. U. S. Forest Service statistics for 197188 show that recreation use along the south slope of the Uintas ( the Wasatch and Ashley Forests) where the Unit collection system would be located and in the Diamond Fork ( the Uinta Forest) area was about 242,000 visitor- days. Much of the use was associated with camping, hiking, and sightseeing. The high Uintas Primitive Area has received about 121,000 visitor- days of use in 1972„ Of this total it was estimated that approximately 76,000 visitor- days use occurred on the southern portion of the area. Established recreation areas located in the general vicinity of the Unit area are Dinosaur and Timpanogos Cave National Monuments, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Natural History State Park at Vernal, Great Salt Lake State Park, Wasatch Mountain State Park near Heber City, Yuba Lake, and Palisade Lake State Recreation Areas near Nephi and Manti, and Big Sand, Steinaker, Piute and Otter Creek Lake State Beaches. Several privately operated and fully developed winter resorts, located along the Wasatch Front, offer some of the Nation* s finest skiing. 148 |