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Show -2- In determining water needs of the Forest Service on Wasatch and Ashley National Forests, in particular, as well as flow requirements of streams involved in the C.U.P. develoD-ment, I would be interested in knowing: 1. What objectives does the Forest Service have related to stream management on these two Forests? - protecting entire riparian regimes for all streamside and stream values - keeping a maintenance or minimum stream flow 2. What water flows are or will be requested from the State for management purposes, per stream? 3. Whose methodology and/or criteria will be used and for what purposes? 4. Is the methodology broad enough to include entire riparian regimes and values? i.e., in addition to aquatic environment for existing fish species, per fish species, the value of the natural streamside biota for riparian wildlife and recreation values, per stream. 5. Have hydrological studies been carried out on the Wasatch and Ashley Forests to determine the importance of flooding to flood plain habitat? What are these? 6. Have studies been carried out to determine the part which ground water plays in riparian vegetation on these forests? What are these? 7. Plow will the Forest Service integrate their management requirements, as defined above, whatever these are - for optimum, natural, maintenance or minimum stream flows - with proposed C.U.P. developments? Per stream? 8. What recreation criteria will the Forest Service use to determine stream and streamside values and covering what stream use? Where? (Leslie Allen Jones, Heber, has determined values and requirements of Uinta Mountain streams for kayaking. His comments appear in the BuRec Bonneville Unit EIS COMMENTS section.) 9. In assessing losses of resources on National Forest lands resulting from developments of the Central Utah Project (existing losses and anticipated),has the Forest Service spelled out detailed losses related to stream regimes, per stream, i.e., recreation, terrestrial and aquatic wildlife, vegetative, soil, streamside and bed structure? Has the Forest Service established an economic evaluation of such resource losses in terms of current resource economic figures? These figures today are far higher and cover more extensive recreation and wildlife values than they have heretofore. (Since stream fishing is rated high on the preference list of fishermen, now, assigning fishermen recreation days to flat water fishing versus stream fishing, per se, does not truly reflect the preference or value of the stream.) |
