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<br />LD <br /> <br />RECOVERY PROGRAM DIRECTOR'S UPDATE <br />April 1999 <br /> <br />Population Status: Little change in population status, <br /> <br /> RIVER <br />SPECIES GREEN YAMPA COLORADO <br />Colorado squawfish Stable/increasing Stable Stable/increasing <br />Humpback chub Stable/small Stable?/small Stable/doing well <br />Razorback sucker <500 adults, very Few adults, very Few adults, <br /> limited recruitment limited recruitment no recruitment <br />Bonytail Rare ---- all rivers <br /> <br />Recovery goals: The Program has approved interim management objectives (target numbers <br />of each species for the various river reaches). The Service has asked the Recovery Team to <br />use the interim management objectives to draft specific recovery goals for the Upper Basin, <br /> <br />I. Instream Flow Identification and Protection <br /> <br />Goal: To protect sufficient instream flows to support self-sustaining populations of the <br />fishes, <br /> <br />Status: . <br /> <br />Over the past year, the Service, Reclamation, and the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board continued to work on delivery of water to the IS-Mile <br />Reach of the Colorado River 21,650 plus 10,000 acre-feet of water from <br />Ruedi Reservoir and 6,000 acre-feet of water from Wolford Mountain <br />Reservoir, <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Peer review of the draft report for the Yampa River Low Flow Study is completed, <br />and a revised draft based on reviewer comments was submitted to the Biology <br />Committee for their review and approval at the February 1999 meeting, Comments <br />from the Biology Committee are being addressed, and the report will again be <br />submitted for approval at the March 30-3 I, 1999, Biology Committee meeting, <br />Work on the Yampa River Management Plan continues; modeling is being done to <br />assess the need for low-tlow augmentation, <br />