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This document relates the observations of George T. Kidd, Fish Biologist, regarding native fish <br />populations and changes in fish population and habitat that have occurred on the Upper Colorado <br />River and the Gunnison River, from 1970 through 1995. Mr. Kidd is uniquely qualified to <br />provide this information because of his extensive professional experience with the endangered fish <br />of the Upper Colorado River Basin. His perspective is especially valuable because he was one of <br />the first professional biologists with a personal interest in the native fish of the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin. He is one of very few field biologists to have extensively observed the fish in the <br />wild prior to the major population decline. <br />GEORGE T. KIDD <br />George Kidd earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Fish Management from Colorado State <br />University in 1956. During his tenure at the university, Mr. Kidd worked in the Department of <br />Forestry Fisheries Laboratory. As a laboratory assistant to Dr. Howard A. Tanner, he cataloged <br />preservered fish specimens of Ptychocheilus lucius (Colorado squawfish), Xyrauchen texanus <br />(razorback sucker), Gila cypha (humpback chub), Gila elegans (bonytail chub), and Gila robusta <br />(roundtail chub). He also contributed to the inventory of the Little Snake River, Wyoming, a <br />project related to the Savory-Pothook Project (Wyoming Game and Fish Commission, 1958). <br />After graduation, Mr. Kidd was the District Supervisor of Fisheries and a Hatchery Biologist for <br />the State of Nebraska from 1956 to 1962. He directed the Missouri River and Gavins Point <br />Reservoir programs and was responsible for the spawn taking program of northern pike, walleye, <br />largemouth bass, and channel catfish. <br />From 1962 to 1965 Mr. Kidd was a private fisheries consultant in the Denver, Colorado area,. <br />where he designed and supervised stream and lake habitat improvements for game fish. His major <br />projects included stream improvements on the Williams Fork River and the Colorado River near <br />Granby, Colorado. <br />In 1965 he joined the Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW) as a Fish Biologist, and later as <br />a Senior Fish Biologist. Mr. Kidd was stationed in Denver, Colorado until 1969. His primary <br />Mn3\U"JtTS0A\APP-r-W WE l