Conservation plan for Colorado River cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki pleuriticus) for the Little Snake River drainage, in southeastern Wyoming /

This conservation and management plan is being developed by the USDA Forest Service (FS), Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) and the USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to assist in protection and enhancement of Colorado River cutthroat trout populations in the Little Snake River drainage in Wyoming.This plan is a follow-up effort to a 1987 statewide management plan developed for Colorado River cutthroat trout by the WGFD in cooperation with the FS and BLM and subsequent evaluations of cutthroat and its habitat and potential habitat in the Little Snake River drainage.This conservation and management plan is in conformance with Medicine Bow National Forest Management Plan (U.S.Department of Agriculture, 1985) and the BLM Great Divide Resource Management Plan (U.S.Department of Interior, 1990).The FS and BLM will ensure that the requirements of their respective planning systems and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) are fulfilled.This will include public review and comment, interdisciplinary review, and identification and analysis of environmental effects of each of the actions described in this plan.During this process alternatives may be developed and considered.This conservation and management plan is being developed under the authority of Wyoming Statute 23-1-103, the Federal Land Management Policy Act of 1976, the Sikes Act, the Endangered Species Act, as amended, and other federal laws, regulations, executive orders and policies.