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• File Number: 8240.200.10.A
• Description: Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovey Program
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 3/1/2004
• Author: UCRBRIP
• Title: Recovery Program Director's Update March 2004
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

needed to fulfill its $5,000 commitment toward the project.

· Dinosaur National Monument has established an aquarium at the quarry that
features razorback sucker and bonytail.

· The Swtmming. Upstream newsletter was distributed in November 2003.

· The Recovery Program exhibited at the joint annual meeting of the Wyoming
Water Association and the Upper Missouri River Water Association in October
in Casper, Wyoming, Colorado River Water Users Association's annua.l
meeting in December in Las Vegas, Nevada, the Colorado Water Congress'
annual meeting in January in Denver, Colorado, and the Utah Water Users'
workshop in March in St. George, Utah.

· The RecoveryProgram is working with the Colorado DivisionofWildlife to
expand its species trading cards to include the endangered fishes;

VII. Recovery Program Management

Goal: To ensure effective implementation and coordination of the Recovery Program.

Status:

· The Recovery Program's electronic listserver has 187 subscribers and is one of
two key components of the Recovery Program's electronic communication~
All Program participants are strongly urged to subscribe. TheRecovery
Program participants' web site (http://www.r6.fws.gov/crripl) has detailed
Recovery Program information such as upcoming meeting dates and times;
meeting agendas and summaries; a bibliography of the Recovery Program
library; the RIPRAP; and numerous other Recovery Program documents. The
site is regularly updated and expanded;

· The Recovery Program's FY 2004/2005 work plan was approved by the
Implementation Committee on September 4, 2003, with anumber of
"placeholders," primarily for nonnative fish management activities. Those
. placeholders have been finalized and approved, and the work plan should be
printed within a month.

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