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66 The Nevada Department of Fish and Game(NDFG) is involved in a native cutthroat trout project which includes eastern Nevada. This project calls for a determination of the genetic purity and classification of several populations of Nevada cutthroat including the Lahontan, Humboldt, Mt. Whealer(Utah cutthroat), and Yellowstone cutthroats. This activity was started in 1978 and is scheduled for several years under contract to Dr. Graham Gall at U.C. Davis. NDFG is beginning a five year program of eradicating exotic trouts in streams and transplanting native trout back into these waters. Transplants of Mt. Wheeler(Utah) and Humboldt cutthroats into barren streams has been a active program for the past 10 years. NDFG, FS9 and ELM are cooperatively involved in a inventory program surveying populations and habitat of native cutthroats. The project is funded through 1979. NDFG is presently surveying for the Lahontan cutthroat in Elko County. The Snake Range of Eastern Nevada will probably not be surveyed until after 1979• Marianne Crawford, Utah LWR, has completed her M.S. thesis involving the least chub, Iotichthys phlegehtontis. Her work was funded at Utah State University by the DdR and ELM. She now assumes the job of non-game fisheries biologist with the DWR. The BLM funded inventory of the central basin for the least chub being done by DWR.and Gar Workman, Utah State University is being completed now and a final report to the BLM is forthcoming this year. The DWR is actively looking for transplant sites for the least chub and some transplants may be accomplished this year to barren spring_.aites in Utah's west desert area. The U.S. Departments of the Army and the Air Force have no new or ongoing biological studies for desert fisheries at the present time although I feel a complete inventory of all desert waters within their jurisdiction is in order now to ascertain the presence or absence of unique native species. This could be done with the use of the Sikes Act funds available to them. The DdR and BLM would be willing cooperators with them if this was proposed-.in the future. The FT. Douglas Military Reservation, DdR, and the Forest Service are still discussing the use of the Red Butte Canyon Natural Research Area adjacent to Salt Lake City for a transplant and study site for the Utah cutthroat. I think that its about time all agencies resolve their differences and move ahead to manage a unique fish resource before it is to late and the resource is lost. Northern Bonneville Basin The Utah BLM is implementing a habitat management plan(HMP) for the Pilot Peak Range in fiscal year 1979. This plan includes habitat work for the threatened Lahontan cutthroat. The Nevada ELM plans to inventory their Bonneville Basin streams in 1979 and 1980. Ponds south of the Pilot Peak area will be inventoried since they are suspect to contain the least chub.