8006

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8006
• Author: Hawkins, J. A., E. J. Wick and D. E. Jennings.
• Title: Icthyofauna of the Little Snake River, Colorado, 1994 - Final Report.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Denver, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

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but also added boulder and cobble substrates. At higher discharge, deep, turbulent
eddies were formed by the higher velocities and larger substrates in the canyon.
These habitats became deep, low-velocity pools at baseflow that provided refugia
for over-wintering fishes.

We selected one 8-km study site within each of the three reaches (Figure 1).
Each site was on Bureau of Land Management public lands in Moffat County,
Colorado.
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The upper site was between RK 95 and 103 and was accessed via
Moffat County Road-147 (RK 102).
The middle site was at Moffat County Road-26 (RK 64) and included
RK 61 through 69.
The lower site was below Moffat County Road-1 0 bridge (RK 15)
between RK 7 and 15.

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