7048

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7048
• Author: Desert Fishes Council ‎(Edwin Pister, e.
• Title: Proceedings of the Desert Fishes Council
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Volumes XX and XXI
• Copyright Material: NO

PREFACE
The Twentieth Annual Symposium was a nostalgic event for most
members, as we recounted the Council's origin and evolution
and the role it has played in protection and preservation of
desert aquatic ecosystems. Nearly 200 attended the three-day
meeting, representing 13 offices of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 6 offices of the Bureau of Land Management, 4 units
of the National Park Service, 4 national forests, 3 offices
of the Bureau of Reclamation, 2 offices of the Geological
Survey, the fish and wildlife agencies of 7 western states,
the Sierra Club, Naval Weapons Center at China Lake, two offices
of The Nature Conservancy, 36 universities and colleges from
throughout North America, and several private consulting firms
(an attendance list is included in the appendix). In addition
to reports of activities of government agencies, 40 research
papers were presented relating to desert aquatic communities.
In commemoration of the twentieth anniversary, an extra day was
added to the usual three-day symposium devoted to the general
subject of "Battle Against Extinction: Native Fish Management
in the American West." Twenty papers were presented in this
special session, which will be published as a book by University
of Arizona Press, edited by W. L. Minckley and J. E. Deacon.
Publication date is scheduled for late 1989. The general
program for the special symposium is included in the appendix.