9595 ‎(2)‎

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9595
• Author: CRCT Task Force.
• Title: Conservation Agreement and Strategy for Colorado River Cutthroat Trout ‎(Oncorhynchus clarki pleuriticus)‎ in the States of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.
• USFW Year: 1999.
• USFW - Doc Type: Fort Collins, CO.
• Copyright Material: NO

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Conservation Agreement......................................... .......................................................... 1

Goals/Objectives.................................................................................................... 1

1. Other Species Involved................................................................................. 2

II. Involved Parties.................. ........................................ .................. ................ 2

ill. Authority...................................................................................................... 2

IV. Conservation Actions.......... ............:............. ................... ...... ............... ....... 3
V. Duration of Agreement................................................................................ 5
VI. NEP A Compliance............... ............................ ....................... ............. ....... 5
VII. Federal Agency Compliance....................................................................... 5

VIII. Signatories...................................................... ............................................. 6

Conservation Strategy....................... ...... ............. ................ ................ ............. ................ 7
Introduction and Background................................................................................ 7
Status and Distribution.... .............. ............ .............. ........... ......... .......................... 7
Definitions and Issues........................................................................................... 12
A. Geographic Management Unit............... ..... ..... ...... ..... ........ ........... ..... 12
B. Genetic Purity...................................................................................... 12
C. Viability or Stability............ .... ...... .............. .......... ....... ...... ..... ............ 13

D. Baseline............................................................................................... 13

E. Conservation Population.............................................. ....... ................. 14

F. Hybrid................................................................................................... 14

G. Metapopulation.................................................................................... 14

H. Phenotype............................................................................................ 15

Problems Contributing to Decline......................................................................... 15

A. Habitat.............................................................................. ..... .............. 15

B. Overutilization................................................................. .................... 16

C. Disease or predation............................................................................ 16

D. Regulating mechanisms.................................................... ... ................ 17

E. Other factors............................................. ....................... ..................... 18

Conservation Strategy........... ............................................................ ..................... 18

Goals.............................................................................. ........ .................... 18

Objectives.................................................................................................. 19

Protecting existing and restored ecosystems............................................. 21
Restoring degraded ecosystems................... .............................................. 22

Planning... ................................................ .................................................. 23

Literature Cited...................................................................................................... 28

Bibliography.......................................................................................... .................31

List of Tables
1. Numbers and miles/acres of CRCT conservation populations in Colorado, Utah
and Wyoming known to exist on July 1, 1998....................................................... 11

March 1999

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