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Show Citizens for a Responsible Central Utah Project Board of Directors Dorothy Harvey, co-chairperson Fred Reimherr, co-chairperson Beth Duncan David Freed Karl Heidenreich Peter Hovingh David Littlefield Dave McCormick Barbara Polich James Talley Hartt Wixom Supporting Organizations • Utah Council, Trout Unlimited •Rocky Mountian Council of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Utah Member Clubs of the Federation of Fly Fishermen •Stonefly Society of the Wastach Salt Lake City, Utah •Order of the Royal Coachman Pleasant Grove. Utah • Utah Audubon Duff said the Bonneville Chapter is aware that the Fish and Wildlife Service has with other governmental agencies, "publicized the need for more water in south slope streams to avoid serious impacts." Duff said some stream impacts on public land on the south slope could beApartially mitigated by stream improvement procedures, fe*4 that those improvements would be on Ute Indian lands, and benefit the public only if they are allowed on tribal property on the south slope in the future. Using a series of charts, Duff showed Utah as having only 62 miles of Class I (Blue Ribbon or top quality) trout and recreation stream resources of the 3,268 total miles of trout streams in the state. Wyoming and Idaho, two neighboring states, have 19,000 and 5,327 miles of trout streams, respectively (most are probably Class I by Utah standards). "That is one reason why it is so important to retain Utah stream resources where at all feasible," he emphasized. Streams to be impacted in the Bonneville unit of the CUP, one of six units, would total 135 miles of stream as follows: Strawberry River, 30 miles (already reduced ^rom an average 23 cubic feet per second flow to four below Soldier CrBek Dam)i Currant Creek, 22j Warer Hollow Creek, 5; Layout Creek, twoj Duchesne River, 35; West Fork Duchesne,10; Wolf Creek, three |
