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 Wild & Scenic Alternative Management Plan Library

  Alternative Management Plan Documents
     *  Amended and Restated Upper Colorado River Wild & Scenic Alternative Management Plan -- June 2020, revised March 2023
     *  Redlined Upper Colorado River Wild & Scenic Alternative Management Plan -- June 2020
     *  ​Upper Colorado River Wild & Scenic Alternative Management Plan​ -- January 2012
     *  Amendment to Attachment B -- June 6, 2018
     *  Federal (BLM) response to draft Amended & Restated SG Plan -- May 16, 2020
     *  Federal (USFS) response to draft Amended & Restated SG Plan -- May 13, 2020
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     *  Stakeholder Group response to federal comments -- June 8, 2020

  Historic & Background Documents
     *  Development Timeline of Upper Colorado Wild & Scenic Hydrology and Resource Guides -- January 23, 2017
     *  Instream Flow Decrees: 11CW152, 5-11CW159, 5-11CW160, 5-11CW161
     *  Recreational Fishing ORV Indicators -- Final Recommendations -- March 27, 2019
     *  Recreational Fishing ORV Indicators -- Final Recommendations -- June 21, 2019
     *  Recreational Floatboating ORV Indicator -- Not Likely To Return ORV Indicator Recommendation -- January 23, 2020
     *  Shoshone Reduction Agreement

  Reference Documents
     *  Charter -- Cooperative Measures Committee -- March 27, 2019
     *  Charter -- Executive Committee -- March 30, 2020
     *  Charter -- Finance Committee -- March 27, 2019
     *  Charter -- Monitoring Committee -- March 27, 2019
     *  Cooperative Measures Toolbox -- October 29, 2020
     *  Cooperative Measures Definitions -- October 29, 2020
     *  Displacement Survey Protocol -- August 28, 2019
     *  Fish Biosurvey Protocol -- November 8, 2019
     *  Intercept Survey Protocol -- April 23, 2020
     *  Long-Term Macroinvertebrate Sampling & Analysis Protocol -- August 28, 2019
     *  Pathways to Address Concerns -- January 6, 2020
     *  Contractor Protocols -- October 21, 2021
     *  Channel Maintenance Flow Observational Monitoring Plan -- January 18, 2022

  Reports from Outside Consultants
     *  Lotic Hydrological: Wild and Scenic Group Water Temperature Data Inventory and Evaluation, 2019
     *  Timberline Aquatics: Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biomonitoring and Pebble Count Study, Upper Colorado River, 2018
     *  Timberline Aquatics: Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biomonitoring Study, Upper Colorado River, 2019
     *  USGS: Incipient Bed-Movement and Flood-Frequency Analysis using Hydrophones to Estimate Flushing Flows on the Upper Colorado River,                       Colorado, 2019
     *  Stillwater Sciences: Technical Guidance for Observational Monitoring for Channel Maintenance Flows along the Colorado River, 2020
     *  Timberline Aquatics: Benthic Macroinvertebrate Biomonitoring Study, Upper Colorado River, 2021

Wild & Scenic Annual Reports
     *  ​2017 Annual Report
     *  ​2018 Annual Report
     *  ​2019 Annual Report
     *  ​2020 Annual Report
     *  ​2021/2022 Annual Report

Wild & Scenic Annual Monitoring Reports
     *  ​2012 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2013 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2014 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2015 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2016 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2017 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2018 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2019 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2020 Annual Monitoring Report
     *  ​2021 Annual Monitoring Report

Wild & Scenic Annual Monitoring Plans
     *  ​2018 Annual Monitoring Plan
     *  ​2019 Annual Monitoring Plan
     *  ​2020 Annual Monitoring Plan
     *  ​2021 Annual Monitoring Plan
     *  ​2022 Annual Monitoring Plan
     *  ​2023 Annual Monitoring Plan

BLM related documents
     *  Upper Colorado River Wild & Scenic Suitability Report -- February 2014
     *  Kremmling Field Office - Resource Management Plan
     *  Colorado River Valley Field Office - Resource Management Plan
     *  Upper Colorado River Story Map - interactive experience of the Upper Colorado River

USFS related documents
     *  Upper Colorado River Wild & Scenic Suitability Report -- February 2014
      *  White River National Forest - Resource Management Plan

Support letters from agencies & individuals who endorse the Plan
      *  American Whitewater                
      *  Denver Water
      *  City of Aurora                            
      *  Colorado River Water Conservation District
      *  Colorado Springs Utilities            
      *  Colorado Springs Utilities/City of Aurora Joint Comment
      *  Governor Hickenlooper
      *  Grand County Board of County Commissioners
      *  Trout Unlimited
      *  Upper Colorado Entities
      *  ​W&S Stakeholders Group Comm
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Additional Links & Resources
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      *  US Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Kremmling, Colorado River Valley
      *  US Forest Service (USFS), White River National Forest
      *  Interagency Wild and Scenic Rivers Council (IWSRC)
      *  National Wild and Scenic Rivers System
      *  River Management Society​
      *  "Eagle County, BLM ink deal for the transfer of popular Colorado River sites" 

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