WSP12287

• File Number: 8220.101.10.C
• Description: Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell
• State: AZ
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/1/1997
• Author: USDOI-GC Mon & Rsrch
• Title: Development of Monitoring and Research Programming for the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center - Briefing Document - Adaptive management Work Group - Part 2 of 2
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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communities. Proposals to monitor faunal assemblages (including terrestrial invertebrates)

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will be aligned with sampling of riparian vegetation habitat changes.

It is proposed that avifauna monitoring emphasize the listed Southwestern Willow

Flycatcher and general riparian avifauna (e.g., wintering and breeding waterfow~ riparian

obligate species, resident non-obligate species and migrant species) in a

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biogeographidgeomorphidseasonal context.

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As appropriate the biological resources monitoring and research program will consider

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and address information needs of the Biological Opinion.

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The Cultural Resources Program

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The cultural resources program will accommodate both ongoing activities of the

Programmatic Agreement (PA), and new programs proposed to address needs of the AMWG.

Activities necessaJY to the P A will be incorporated into the cultural resources program

at the request of the agency and Native American tribal members of the AMWG. Monitoring

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The Strategic Plan incorporates a more comprehensive perspective of cultural

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and research information needs and activities from the P A are expected to be a major

component of the GCMRC's cultural resource program.

resources than those outlined in the P A This perspective is derived from objectives and

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information needs specified by agencies, Native American tribes and other stakeholders,

relating to cultural resources and their association with other resources in the Colorado River

corridor.

[Final Draft 3/17/97]