WSP11654

• File Number: 8240.200.10.B
• Description: UCRBRIP Annual Report
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/10/1993
• Author: USDOI/FWS
• Title: Fiscal Year 1993 Annual Report Part 1
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

VII, How is this study contributing to recovery? Are the study goals and
objectives being met?:

The information and education program fulfills a responsibility to
inform taxpayers and other concerned members of the public about the
Recovery Program. This information helps develop and maintain support
for and neutralize opposition toward Recovery Program actions.

VIII. and IX.

FY 93 Tasks and Deliverables; Accomplishments/Initial Findings and
Shortcomings:

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I: At least 10 news stories written and placed in appropriate print and
electronic media in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

Status: News releases were written about the following topics:
announcements of public meetings in Gunnison, Grand Junction, Craig and
Vernal; selenium contamination in the Green River; use of flooded
bottomlands for endangered fish recovery; construction of a diversion
dam near Craig to benefit endangered fish; biologists finding razorbacks
in Etter Pond; Colorado biologists spawning wild razorbacks; losses of
endangered fish at Horsethief Canyon; release of the draft RIPRAP;
publication of historical accounts of endangered fish.

2, Two issues of the newsletter.

Status: The newsletter was published in fall 1992 and spring 1993.
Approval has been received from the Department of the Interior's public
affairs office in Washington, D.C., to continue the publication. (Now
that the I&E position .is located at the Fish and Wildlife Service, such
approval will be necessary for nearly all publications.)

3. Updated mailing list.

Status: Conversion of the database from the Colorado Division of
Wildlife to the Fish and Wildlife Service has been completed; changes
and additions are made on an ongoing basis.

4. Completed interactive video.

Status: Videotape from the "Survivors: Endangered Fish of the Colorado
River" program produced by the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and
excerpts from the Recovery Program slide show were supplied to the
Colorado Division of Wildlife for use in the interactive video. This
information was compiled as part of an interactive touch-screen program
called "In-Touch Colorado," which is now available at kiosks in the
following seven locations: shopping malls in Denver (Southwest Plaza
and two at the Tabor Center), Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and Grand
Junction and at the Craig Sportsman's Center.

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