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1 APPENDIX G <br />' Annual report Colorado River Fish and Wildlife Council <br />committee, interstate, <br />' interagency process. A Coordination Committee provides interagency <br />communication and program-level direction and guidance; and a Biological Working <br />Group serves as a task force for developing an acceptable technical basis for this <br />conservation strategy and provides a forum for discussion of biological issues <br />among the regional pool of technical experts available. Both committees have been <br />' active this past year and progress is being made toward establishing the desired <br />guidelines and criteria within the draft conservation strategy. To summarize what <br />has been adopted thus far: <br />General Guidelines: <br />1) Management objectives will be set within each of 18 subbasins or geographic <br />' managment units (GMUs) across the tri-state area. <br />April 21. 1998 <br />' <br />Colorado Conservation River planning Cutthroat Trout Conservation <br />TO: Colorado River Fish continues to and be Wildlife Council <br />' <br />FROM: Tom Nesler and Mary McAfee, conducted by Colorado a two- Division of Wildlife <br />SUBJECT: Colorado River cutthroat trout (CRN) conservation program <br />Each of these GMUs will be managed as a discrete enclave with the large-scale <br />' objective being to maintain two interconnected metapopulations in each GMU. <br />Ideally, a metapopulation is comprised of five separate, viable populations. <br />However, isolated populations will be maintained as important components of <br />' larger-scale efforts to achieve connectivity. <br />2) Definition of population and species viability: <br />The criteria from the bull trout conservation program will be used to define <br />local and meta-populations by stream order. Local populations are those in 1 st <br />' and some 2nd order drainages and meta populations are those in 3rd and 4th <br />order drainages. Extinction risk for metaApopulations will be defined as low <br />' when 5 or more subpopulations of several thousand individuals each exits in <br />areas with good habitat complexity. Moderate extinction risk will be assumed <br />for meta-populations with less than five sub-populations and extreme <br />' extinction risk for areas with only a single population or several at low density, <br />or for areas with isolated subpopulations and poor habitat conditions. <br /> <br /> <br />