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• DRAFT February 25, 1998 reduced tailwater downstream, and sediment delivery tot he chute channels is reduced by deposition in an upstream pool. The process-response model appears to be validated by fish-capture data at this, and another spawning bar at RM 18.5, on the Yampa River during both the 1991 and 1992 runoff seasons. Pick, T.A. 1996. Peak flow computations, Green River tributaries below Flaming Gorge Dam, Colorado and Utah. Memorandum dated June 18, 19969 U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Technical Service Center, Denver, Colorado. 29p. Streamflow records for U.S. Geological Survey gauges on six tributary streams in the Green River basin were evaluated by Pick (1996) and the magnitude of flood flows for a range of occurrence frequencies was determined. The gauges used in this analysis were: Yampa River near Maybell, Colorado Little Snake River near Lily, Colorado Duchesne River near Randlett, Utah White River near Watson, Utah Price River at Woodside, Utah • San Rafeal River near Green River, Utah For the stations with major upstream reservoirs, especially the Duchesne River with four upstream reservoirs, no attempt was made to remove the effects of regulation from the record. Also, it was assumed that log-Pearson type III was the proper distribution to be used in analysis of the flood records for these gauges. Rakowski, C.L. and J.C. Schmidt. 1996. The geomorphic basis of Colorado Squawfish nursery habitat in the Green River near Ouray, Utah. Draft Final Completion Report and Executive Summary, Department of Geography and Earth Resource, Utah State University, Logan, Utah. 73p. In the sand-bedded alluvial reaches of the Green River where nursery habitat is of primary importance, the magnitude of flood peaks may be separated in three categories: (1) very low peaks that do not inundate the bar tops but rearrange sediment along the bar margins, (2) low-peaks that inundate the bars but do not overtop the banks, and (3) large floods that overtop the banks. While the channel responds rapidly to changes in discharge, the imprint of the antecedent conditions on the low-flow channel form (for example, the relative elevation of the bar tops and the distribution of sediment within the channel) survive flood passage, especially the passage of low-magnitude floods. Nursery habitat availability is a product of low-flow channel form, and that channel form is a product of flood dynamics and antecedent conditions. • 24