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<br />ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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<br />The information provided in these contributions is a combination of
<br />original and previously pUblished data and illustrations; the sources of
<br />published information are cited in the text and species accounts. Aside
<br />from my own efforts and supervision of all other work, the original contri-
<br />butions herein are the result of many long hours by a multitude of Colorado
<br />State University (CSU) students either conducting independent study or
<br />graduate research or serving as laboratory volunteers or employees. Most
<br />original illustrations were prepared by Lynn Bjork; others were drawn by
<br />Mark Jones, including the final preparation of all figures not part of the
<br />species accounts, and by Gail Ridlon. Those assisting with the acquisi-
<br />tion of morphometric and meristic data from hundreds of specimens (some
<br />data not yet ready for inclusion herein) were: James Barrowman, Mark
<br />Castagneri, Linda Deutsch, William Emerson, Lyndon Evans, Marty Hayden,
<br />Robert Hufziger, Carol Jefferson, Eric Leitzinger, Leo Lentsch, Robert
<br />Muth, Martin Ogle, Florence Richey, Gail Ridlon, Robert Upton, Edmund
<br />Wick, and especially Stephanie Salyer. Tim Hill assisted in the clearing
<br />and staining of specimens. John Hawkins assisted in developing photo-
<br />graphic techniques. Still others including Al Davis, Phil Harrison, David
<br />Herbet, Jeff Pearson, Dale Brown and Keith Fulsos assisted in the organiza-
<br />tion and/or culture of specimens for study (the latter two were local
<br />high school students in the summer CETA Youth Program).
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<br />Most specimens were cultured in-house or collected as part of U.S
<br />Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Colorado Division of Wildlife (CDOW)
<br />studies on Colorado.s western slope. Other cultured series or collected
<br />specimens were donated by or borrowed from the Willow Beach National Fish
<br />Hatchery (USFWS, Boulder City, NV, via Roger Hamman), the Cornell
<br />University Fish Collection (Ithaca, NY, via Robert Schoknecht), Royal
<br />Suttkus (Tulane University Museum of Natural History, Belle Chasse, LA),
<br />Paul Holden (Bio/West Inc., Logan, UT), Karl Seethaler (formerly of Utah
<br />State University, Logan, UT), Lance Perry (Illinois Institute of Natural
<br />Resources, Urbana, IL), William Hauser (Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game,
<br />Anchorage, AK) and John Varley (Yellowstone National Park, WY).
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<br />This project was sponsored by the BLM. Both the BLM and CDOW shared
<br />in the cost of publication. Also contributing to this project as a
<br />byproduct of other but related work, was the Non-game Section of the CDOW,
<br />the Colorado River Fishery Project of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service~
<br />and the Experiment Station of CSU. Without the facilities of the CSU
<br />Department of Fishery and Wildlife Biology and Larval Fish Laboratory,
<br />and the assistance provided through the University's work-study program,
<br />the nature and amount of original data in this project would have been
<br />much more limited.
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<br />I particularly wish to thank Clarence Carlson, CSU Professor of
<br />Fishery Biology and Administrator of the CSU Larval Fish Laboratory,
<br />and Robert Gervais, Aquatic Biologist and project representative for the
<br />BLM, for their support, faith, and patience in view of my continual modi-
<br />fication and extension of a project which was originally to have ended
<br />over two years ago. Thanks also go to Department typists Barbara Aldrich
<br />and Kathleen Everett for their tolerant assistance.
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