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<br />001758 <br /> <br />35 <br /> <br />use of the existing Willow Beach population must be determined, and may include research or a <br />portion of a founder captive breeding population. <br />A total of twenty individual projects were identified and rudimentary work plans <br />developed by the HBC Ad Hoc Committee. Those projects will be or are being implemented by <br />GCMRC, its contractors and/or other agencies participating in the GCDAMP. The projects <br />scheduled for FY06 are identified as Humpback Chub Action (HCA) in this work plan. <br /> <br />SOCIO-CUL TURAL RESOURCES <br />The Sociocultural Program has traditionally be,en a stand alone program within <br />GCMRC's organizational structure. In GCMRC's new organization structure, the program's <br />independent status has been maintained, but the resean:h and monitoring initiatives of the <br />program have been realigned with GCMRC's over-arching integrated science framework. Under <br />GCMRC's new organizational structure and approach, research and monitoring projects <br />conducted in support of sociocultural program needs will be coordinated and integrated with <br />ongoing research and monitoring activities in the Integrated Science Program. Data collected <br />through the sociocultural program's research and monitoring projects will be stored and analyzed <br />using the Oracle database engine and GIS spatial positioning technologies, allowing impacts of <br />dam operations on cultural components of the Colorado River Ecosystem to be evaluated and <br />analyzed in conjunction with physical and biological elements. <br />In the past, GCMRC's sociocultural program has been defined in terms of three program <br />elements: cultural resources, recreational resources, and socioeconomics. In reality, these <br />program elements are closely interrelated. For example, recreational campsites are essentially <br />the modern equivalent of prehistoric archaeological sites, in that they are places preferentially <br />selected for human activity according to the dictates of the culture currently making active use of <br />the Grand Canyon river corridor. Values attached to traditional cultural places by Native <br />American communities have counterparts in the values: attached to beaches, rapids, fishing holes, <br />and trails by modern recreational (angler and whitewater boating) communities. While the <br />specific, culturally-determined values associated with particular places in the CRE may be very <br />different, the fundamental concern with protecting speeific place-based attributes and the river <br />corridor as a whole from adverse effects of dam operations is similarly focused on retaining the <br />intrinsic values of places that foster and perpetuate a community's sense of identity and tradition. <br /> <br />GCMRC FY2006 Annual Work Plan (Draft February 15,2005) <br />