7752

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7752
• Author: Stanford, J. A.
• Title: Instream Flows to Assist the Recovery of Endangered Fishes of the Upper Colorado River Basin
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: Review and Synthesis of Ecological Information, Issues, Methods and Rationale.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Figure 14. Summer and fall baseflows on the Green River at Flaming Gorge Dam and at Jensen in
relation to unregulated flows from the Yampa River. Bold, broken lines delineate 1800 cfs (upper)
and 1350 cfs (lower) baseflow operational windows recorrunended for recovery of endangered
fishes (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 1992) as derived from the stage-backwater relationship
determined by Pucherelli et al' (1990) and Lyons and Pucherelli (1992). Data from U.S.
Geological Swvey. .

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