Other Resources
Yampa Integrated Water Management Plan
This plan charts a path forward for the Roundtable to make progress on its BIP goals and build relationships with water users at the same time. The process combined stakeholder input with science and engineering assessments to identify actions that users can take to protect existing and future water uses and support healthy river ecosystems in the face of growing populations, changing land uses and climate uncertainty.
Yampa River Health Assessment and Streamflow Management Plan - City of Steamboat Springs
The Yampa River Health Assessment and Streamflow Management Plan identifies a long-term strategy for protecting and improving the health and resiliency of the Yampa River near Steamboat Springs. This plan provides the community of Steamboat Springs with an executable implementation strategy and a scientifically-based and stakeholder-driven foundation for future planning, decision-making, and negotiation for the management of the Yampa River.
Yampa-White-Green Basin Roundtable - Basin Implementation Plan
The BIP recognizes 1) the need to retain a share of native flows for existing uses and future development, 2) the need to preserve the natural hydrology for environmental and recreational use; 3) the need for appropriately located, sized, and operated projects to protect water uses and the environment, particularly during drought; and 4) the need to consider and to address all of these within the roundtable process.
The Nature conservancy Water Fund ToolBoX
Water Funds enable downstream water users - like cities, businesses, and utilities - to invest in upstream land management to improve water quality and quantity and generate long-term benefits for people and nature.
Management Plan for Endangered Fishes in the Yampa River Basin
This management plan assists in the recovery of four endangered fish species as water depletions from the Yampa River Basin continue to serve human water needs in Colorado and Wyoming. The plan anticipates that depletions will increase to meet projected future human needs. In this plan, current depletions are quantified and future depletions are projected through 2045. The plan describes specific management actions to promote recovery of the listed species in the face of those depletions and criteria by which to measure the success of management actions.
U.S. Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 6
Final Programmatic Biological Opinion on the Management Plan for Endangered Fishes in the Yampa River Basin
Water Releases from Elkhead Reservoir to Augment Yampa River Flows for Endangered Fish
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