6532-2009-844 Middle Thompson Creek Riparian Fence Exclosure
- Colorado
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- In-stream and riparian habitat
- Colorado River Cutthroat
- Colorado River Basin
- Colorado River Cutthroat Trout
The fence project on Middle Thompson will meet the following WNTI Goals:
• Protect and maintain intact and healthy aquatic systems.
• Prevent further degradation of fish habitats that have been adversely affected.
• Reverse declines in the quality and quantity of aquatic habitats to improve the overall health of fish and other aquatic organisms.
It will improve the riparian community, associated banks and instream habitats. This will improve the quality and quantity of habitat for this conservation population of CRCT.
The project will improve macroinvertebrate habitat and protect small mammal habitat. There are pygmy and water shrews in the project area (USFS trapping data, 2009).
The project is currently analyzed in the North Thompson and Coal Creek Range Allotment Environmental Assessment. The NEPA analysis is ongoing and expected to be signed by June 2010. The project began in the field season of 2009 and will be finished this winter/spring.
The project was completed in August 2010.
Archeology site specific surveys or actual fence post locations will be done prior to construction. General archaeology surveys were completed in 2009
- It will improve the riparian community, associated banks and instream habitats. This will improve the quality and quantity of habitat for this conservation population of CRCT.
- US Forest Service, Colorado Div. of Wildlife
- Miles of streambank protected
- National Fish Habitat Action Plan
