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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sclence assessments of these collected data and research to improve understanding of critical

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attributes affecting specific resources and the interrelationships of resource attnoutes in the

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riverine corridor.

Independent reviews of past research in the Colorado River corridor primarily

between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead have concluded that several actions are necessary

to ensure progressive future monitoring and science programs. These include:

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Implementation of an adaptive management process to facilitate close

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interaction of science and management in applying new management criterion

and evaluating the impacts of those criterion.

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primarily between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Mead to define critical

2. Development ofa conceptual model of the Colorado River ecosystem

attnoutes within resource categories, critical attribute linkages across resource

categories, and interdependencies of resource attnoutes.

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An extensive synthesis and state-of-the-science assessment of all past

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knowledge associated with predam baseline resource conditions in the

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Colorado River ecosystem primarily between Glen Canyon Dam and Lake

Mead, riverine resource changes associated with construction of the Glen

Canyon Dam, and changes associated with "the effects of the Secretary's

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actions."

[Final Draft 3/17/97]