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1 <br /> <br /> <br /> 4. Create a Lower Colorado Basin Management Group (LCBMC), including a <br />' full-time coordinator. This team would be comprised of species experts and <br /> would act as a forum for the discussion of past, ongoing, and new ideas. It <br /> would also review, revise, and integrate management plans as well as individual <br />' projects and study plans for activities in the lower basin. The team would <br /> compile, assimilate, and provide the best biological information on each species <br /> and habitat to participating agencies. it would also present recommendations to <br />' the Service regarding implementation of management actions. The coordinator <br /> would consult with upper-basin representatives on management actions and <br /> <br />' advise the Service Region 2 Regional Director (or an appointed representative) <br />on program implementation and progress. Without such a forum to discuss <br /> ideas, problems, and possible solutions, these efforts may fall into redundancy of <br />1 efforts, repetition of research and unneeded misunderstandings between <br />researchers <br />all of which will impede efforts to recover these species <br /> . <br />, <br />' 5. Develop strong ties with other, regional and local endangered species <br />managers and researchers. <br />' 6. Initiate annual working sessions to explore the state of knowledge of the <br />biology of the subject taxa. The principal goals of such sessions will be to: <br />' a) ascertain the best possible information and produce documented <br />decisions until replaced by new and more effective scenarios developed <br />through data accumulation; <br />' b) settle upon a means of acquisition and production of broodstock and <br />progeny for augmentation and translocation. Determine means for long- <br />' term husbandry to maximize long-term quality of existing and future <br />stocks; and <br /> c) consolidate the best information available on ways to stabilize and <br /> perpetuate populations of each with the ultimate goal of having self- <br /> sustaining populations. <br /> <br /> 7. Continue to synthesize information from throughout the Colorado River basin <br /> and.use this synthesis as the foundation for future management and recovery <br />' actions. In addition, there remain many unanswered questions about life history <br /> needs of the four species that must be resolved if recovery is going to be <br /> -_ . <br /> <br />36 <br />~ , <br />