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Effects of U.S.F.S. Proposed Restrictions 



On March 31,1 995, the US Forest Service issued its E. A. for proposed changes to the management of the 

 Green River From Flaming Gorge Dam to the Colorado State line. To the present time, this is the only document that 

 has been issued on this subject. GROGA has been informed that the new decision notice will have the final draft of the 

 E. A. and that there have been many changes from ttiis document to the one that will come out "soon". It is therefore 

 hard to comment on the proposed changes since no one outside of the F.S. has seen them. It will be easy, however, to 

 comment on the proposals that are contained in the draft E.A. of March 31, 1995. 



This E.A. identified five alternative management plans and picked one that the F. S. felt would be the best 

 Alternative B was identified by the F.S. as their preferred alternative. It was divided into three parts. 

 First, restrictions on public use, second, restrictions on commercial guide use, and finally, safety 

 requirements. My comments are liniited to the commercial guide use. The following is the entire 

 proposal for commercial guide usage. 



2. Commercial Outfitting (for fishing fix>m wateroraft) lintits for any given day: (FS and BLM) 



Daily Boat Launch Limits 



Seasons of use, 1 st fishing, float & fish, and second fishing are strictly name of periods of time and do 



not limit aaivities. The names were chosen to indicate the primary activities occurring dtiring the 



period. 



These management limits will be managed within the following constraints: 



-limit the number of outfitter companies to no more than 10. 



-The number of launches available (per chart above) will be divided between companies as 



defined in their prospectus response and by the selection panel. 

 There is no plan to limit the number of private launches with this alternative. Private launches will be 

 controlled by the number of people on each seaion of the River at one time. These numbers will 

 fluctuate daily depending on whether the visitors choose to hike the trails, walk/wade fish, float or boat 



