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71 Basin Report Oregon, Northern California and Nevada Desert Fishes Council, 1978 by Carl Bond Oregon State University The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife initiated a wild trout program. Under the program the protection and enhancement of wild stocks will be given first and highest consideration in fish management programs. Hatchery or foreign stocks will be released only where deemed necessary to provide optimum benefits for the resource. Three management options will be used: Manage exclusively for wild fish; Manage for wild plus hatchery fish; and Manage exclusively for hatchery fish. Four streams have been designated for inclusion as wild trout streams; the lower 100 miles of the Deschutes, a portion of the Klamath River, the Williamson River and Spencer Creek. Additional streams will be named in the future. Three-Mile Creek was closed to angling. It is a major source of the eggs from red-band trout. The Department, in cooperation with BLM, is conducting inventories to locate red-band trout populations. This is part of an effort by BLM to locate native trout populations in Oregon, and to develop habitat management programs. While the state of Oregon does not have an endangered species listing program, it has provided protection to four fishes, based on their reduced numbers. The four are the Hutton Spring chub, Fosket Spring dace, Alvord chub and Warner sucker. Oregon State University, with cooperation from other agencies did an assessment of the Warner sucker population and of fish distribution in the Warner Lakes Basin. Several populations of the Warner sucker were found in (Twentymile Creek, Honey Creek, Snyder Creek and Hart Lake). The final report on the fish distribution is not yet available. A paper has been submitted by Dr. Carl Bond and Fred Bills describing the Cowhead Lake chub, a new subspecies. Jack Williams, an OSU graduate student also collected a new form of Gila in the Guano Lake Basin, which he is now working on. Two studies will be initiated this summer. BLM will fund a study of the Jenny Creek sucker, and the U.S. Forest Service will study the Pit River sculpin. Seven species of fish have been proposed for listing as threatened or endangered species. The seven are: Warner sucker (Catostomus warnerensis Snyder); Shortnose sucker (Chasmistes brevirostris Cope ; Alvord chub (Gila alvordensis Hubbs & Miller); Fosket Spring dace (Rhinichthys osculus subsp. Lost River sucker (Catostomus luxatus (Cope)); Borax Lake chub (Gila bicolor subsp.); and the Hutton Spring chub (Gila bicolor subsp.).