6047

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 6047
• Author: Colorado River Wildlife Council.
• Title: Minutes, Colorado River Fish & Wildlife Council.
• USFW Year: 1983.
• USFW - Doc Type: April 4-5, 1983.
• Copyright Material: NO

in a few cases to bring the rules to uniformity.
There is a greater degree of disparity in the watercraft laws on Y
these bodies of water. To aid in solving this problem, a meeting should
be held with the boating safety representatives from Arizona, California,
Nevada, the National Park Service, and possibly the Coast Guard, as each
has responsibility for boating safety on these waters.
Con-current law enforcement jurisdiction on the waters of the Lower
Basin states appears unattainable without new legislation. A warden's
powers of enforcement are limited to his respective State, which poses
problems jurisdictionally, particularly in the narrow portions of the system.
There is no express authority for wildlife commissioners to extend such
authority, either in the area of wildlife or boating safety.
After a brief discussion, the Council took the following actions.
Fred Worthley made a motion that the Council make the Committee a stand-
ing one, and accept the report. Motion seconded by Will Molini and carried
unanimously.
Acid Rain - Fred asked Rod Stone, Utah, to report on the situation.
In concluding Rod said that it appeared that one of the most important
activities of the acid rain problem will be collection of consistent data
for future periods, consistent from State to State, region to Region, and
year to year. In the past it seems that if you had three entities in-
volved in collecting data, there were three different types of equipment,
three different procedures, times, locals, and so on. In view of the
studies presently under way by various western universities, bureaus, and
agencies, it appears to us that fish and wildlife disciplines can best
provide significant contributions to the data base by measuring chemical
parameters and biological populations of waters in the southwest, partic-
ularly in naturally occurring lakes and impoundments, at say 3 to 5 year
intervals for the accumulation of trend information.
Fred moved the report be accepted. Motion was seconded by Will Molini
and carried unanimously.
Jack Grieb asked - how important it was going to be that acid rain be
monitored. Discussion followed. The group felt it was important
enough to look into and see if something could be put together in the
intermountain states, or in the Colorado River Basin.
Mr. Grieb moved that the Technical Committee be instructed to put together
a plan for monitoring the acid rain situation in the areas that should be
monitored and report to the Council with a proposal which would include
an understanding of what monitoring is going on and what we are going to
have to do to fill the gap.
Dick McClesky seconded the motion.
Discussion followed. Attention was called to the work being currently
performed by other agencies that would be available for review by the
Committees. Some thought that it might be too slow a process, but the
group decided it would be best to continue as stated in the original
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