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reservoirs. <br />Illicit stocking of gamefish species defeats the purpose and strategies developed within this plan, and is strongly discouraged <br />due to adverse impacts to the basin's populations of native fish species like Colorado River cutthroat trout, Colorado squawfish, and <br />roundtail chub. <br />High lakes management strategies depend, in part, upon the lake's existing status with respect to sustaining wild trout <br />populations and its capabilities for providing satisfactory fishing recreation. Recommendations include restoration actions for high <br />lakes capable of supporting self-sustaining Colorado River cutthroat trout populations or supporting genetic refugia populations that <br />may or may not be self-sustaining, maintaining recreational fisheries in those high lakes with the demonstrated capacity for quality <br />fisheries, and converting those high lakes with poor fisheries to fishless, conservation habitats for other aquatic wildlife by merely <br />ceasing stocking. High lakes that are already fishless will remain so. Local public and land management agency input will be <br />solicited in the selection of stocked high lake fisheries and high lakes dedicated to conservation objectives due to the recognized <br />importance of these waters with respect to historical and cultural precedents, tourism and related business, and consequences to habitat <br />management with changing public use patterns at high lakes and potential for habitat damage with increased human activity. <br />Baseline presence/absence and distribution information on reptile, amphibian, mollusk and crustacean wildlife are lacking in <br />the basin. Inventories are recommended whenever agency resources permit to acquire this data and enable better species status <br />determinations. <br />DRAFT - January 13, 1998 <br />iv <br />am ? 4' 4" ? M* Aw- M M 4W M m"*M or OM !W an IM