Record Details
page 147
Digital Collections at BYU
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | page 147 Final Environmental Statement : authorized Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah, page 147 |
| Coverage | Electronic reproduction; |
| Source | Bureau of Reclamation. Department of the Interior |
| Publisher | Brigham Young University |
| Date | 2005-10-14 |
| Format | 147 text/PDF |
| Rights | Brigham Young University; http://lib.byu.edu/about/copyright/generic.php Public Domain Public |
| Language | English; eng; en |
| Relation | Central Utah Project; Western Waters Digital Library; a general utah has been blessed with a substantial and varied array of outdoor recreation potential recreational opportunities are available in settings ranging from high forested mountains to the canyons buttes and mesas of the desert utahs outdoors is already being extensively utilized reports prepared by the institute for the study of outdoor recreation 82 85 and tourism utah state university show that during the 197071 1970 71 fall through summer season residents expended about 5 million 12 hour recreation days while nonresident non resident tourists accounted for approximately 94 904 94 9.4 million recreation days the reports also state that utahns utahna have ranked the following activities in order of preference fishing camping hunting skiing sightseeing sight seeing golfing hiking i 86 R and swimming 00 nonresident non resident use and demand is most significant for sightseeing picnicking camping and hikingo hiking currently about 700000 hunters and anglers are annually spending about six million hunter and fisherman days occupied 87 at these pastimes the hunting is distributed among big game upland game and waterfowl the fishing recreation can be separated into warm water and cold water phases either in lakes and reservoirs or in streams about 70 percent of the demand for fishing recreation in the state is supplied by lakes and reservoirs 87 the proposed bonneville unit area supports a recreational potential smaller in magnitude but similar in diversity and quality to that of the state some recreation sites found within the unit area are unique and provide experiences that are not available in other portions of the state examples of such am entities are utah lake the high cintas uintas primitive area relatively undisturbed streams such as rock creek and the quality fishing section of the strawberry river and the excellent trout fishing of the existing strawberry reservoir according to an analysis of recreational river boating on the south slopes of the uinta mountains 184 0 the kayak and canoe river running sport in utah is fairly old and well established but only beginning to reach its full potential in numbers of people participating and numbers of rivers being utilized this sport is expected to grow from a present statewide participation level of about 100 individuals on about 12 river runs to more than 1000 persons with 40 to 50 new river runs in the next 10 years within the bonneville unit river boating potential is greatest for approximately 65 miles of the provo river 10 miles of the west 147 |
| Identifier | http://cdm15999.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/WesternWatersProject/id/5175 |
