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Announced to Mitigate Dam's ImpactBOLSE, Idaho (ftP)-Stat3 E.F. Sullivan, regional diree- gionnldU ector, said public fish- ton and federal officials say they tor of the Bureau of Reclama- ' plan to acquire about 1,000 tion, said the plan will lo aacres for a big game range and practical approach” to workto construct two fish hatchery within the authorized frame-raceways to mitigate the im- work of the dam project,PnC!i«n T6ton Dam 011 atlci Ho said if will provide for a feet per second will be main-Reservoir in tlio Willowresources in eastern big game habilat, fish hatchery tained in the Teton River down.n M r3 ... .1 . I ♦ ■ - I - I I * A lawildlife Idaho.A comprehensive plan for public access protection of the two resources fishing areas. About 060 acres will bewas announced \Yedresdav bv The plan specifies that two quired and fenced by theln„ ■ - The officials said the 4‘10-acroIn, access vail he acquired on Creek Drainage. tract at Cartier Slough will bestreams in’the “vicinity of* the Sullivan and Findlay said oahSshc^ttee^taTeton Basin Project. They said ‘JjJ aUI'ouf «»* is ^ a Snnectioii S thfliij e Irol a minimum flow of 300 cubic different drainage than that “J w Jmoused by animals affected by the ect* Use Tex C eek big game Teton Dam construction, the ^serve wfli also be contiguousInr rvJtnfM tD the established bit: tame1 uig game iwuuat, nsii batenwy ramea in me-Teton River down- rrm‘ . . esHhiUhod mVand protective facilities and stream from the Lower Teton ?roa ofrcrs * greater potential '1 : public access to hunling and’ Dam. . w range improvement. -Ls plan wSl mes*lac-plan will mesh well A third big game manage- with mitigation plans for the msnt area is planned thresh Birie looservoir on Willow1the Bureau of Reclamation, the hat^rFrace^ will be in.Bureau of Sports Fisheries and stalled at an existing hatchery points around the periphery of slough on Henry's Fork’River Ke said the Rlrie Reservoir the Idaho Fish and Game De- to rear trout for sleeking down- lower Teton Reservoir to miti- -L -- 1 1 1 R u RlfaBlwmr\M*lr^Ani a1.._____ t m. i - - - ....partment,Teton Dam is under construction on the Lower Teton River near Rcxburg. Environmentalists have protested that the dam will destroy about 17 miles of prime fishing waters,20 milesstream from Teton Re servoir, gate wildlife loss os, They will pelon.The facilities will he operated be managed by the fish and by the fish and game depart- game department as big gamo merit using Bureau of Reclama- winter ranges, tion funds. Another 15,003 acres will hoSullivan and John u. Findley, acquired in the Tex Creek area Bureau of Sports Fisheries re- 3CJ miles north of the Lowerfe-Hunry southwestof Lower area will be administered by the- Bureau of Reclamation,Senior Citizens Told H
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Idaho State Journal
Pocatello, Idaho, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1973
Page 19
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