7871

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7871
• Author: Snyder, D. E.
• Title: Preserved Larval and Small-Fish Collections of the Upper Colorado River Basin
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Maintenance and Cataloging of a Valuable Historical Database - Final Report.
• Copyright Material: NO

foundation for much RIP research and management. This includes work on endangered
species production, non-native species, flow manipulation, and habitat creation or
modification. Accordingly, the importance of preserved collections to RIP warrants
recognition as a specific RIPRAP General Recovery Program Support task-to "provide for
long-term care, cataloging, and accessibility of preserved collections as voucher for
Recovery Implementation Program research and as a resource for additional biological and
natural history information."
This project was funded under RIP for years 1992 through 1994 with a budget of
$10,000 the first year and $25,000 the second and third years. The project was extended
without additional funds through September 1995. Due date for this final report was
extended through January 1996.

Objectives

Project objectives were to provide for the proper care and management, improved
accessibility, and permanency of UCRB larval and small fish collections held by LFL.

Methods

· Consider alternative computer programs for cataloging and managing LFL larval and
small fish holdings and consult on same with the curator (M. A. Bogan) and
collection manager (C. A. Ramotnik) of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Field
Station Collections (National Ecology Research Center, Fort Collins) which serves as
a repository for larger fishes collected in the UCRB. (The Field Station Collections
are now the NBS Western Biological Surveys Collections in Albuquerque).
· Select and configure IBM-compatible computer with adequate memory and data storage,
appropriate software, and a laser printer to accommodate the selected catalog and
collection management program, host a local network with existing LFL computers
as interactive workstations, and facilitate on-line access and communications.
· Acquire, configure, learn, and maintain the selected collection management program.
· Seek and arrange for electronic (or on disk) transfer of needed colleetion information
from the agencies or firms that deposited collections.
· Catalog, rebottle if necessary, replace or top-off preservative, relabel, and reorganize on
shelves as many sets of collections as time and funds under this proposal will allow.
· Establish on-line access to the collection catalog and related communications by
installation of appropriate computer hardware and software and either a dedicated
telephone line or connection to the university's "backbone" network.
· Ensure collection permanency, if feasible, by establishing a formal link with the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Field Station Collections (now NBS 'Western Biological
Surveys Collections) or another permanent collection or museum.
· Establish and prepare a manual on standard procedures and policies for management and
use of the LFL Collection.
· Document the time required to catalog, upgrade, and reorganize collections and estimate
costs and time required to [mish the task for any backlog of UeRB collections
remaining after this project; also, estimate cost to incorporate cataloging as part of
procedures for processing new collections (specimen identification, counts, and
length frequencies).

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