8138

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8138
• Author: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, Arizona Game and Fish Department and The National Park Service.
• Title: Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Utah/Arizona\
• USFW Year: 1996.
• Copyright Material: NO

Utah Division of Wildlife Resources
a. Strategic Plan (1992): Utah's strategic plan was developed for the
benefit of wildlife, focusing on preserving Utah's unique fish and
wildlife heritage. It presents the 5 year management goals and
objectives for all protected wildlife in Utah. It identifies
problems and specifies strategies to overcome them. The plan
provides strong focus for UDWR work, year-to-year priorities and
allocation of resources.
b. Lake Powell Water Management Plan: This plan states management
goals and objectives for Lake Powell sport fishery including sport
fish harvest goals.
3. Arizona Game and Fish Department
WILDLIFE 2000 Strategic Plan: This plan implements a strategy of
cooperation with state and federal agencies and local governments to
meet the mission. It includes a sportfish strategic plan that
describes the current supply and demand and future demands. It also
includes a nongame and endangered wildlife plan.
B. OTHER AUTHORITIES
1. National Park Service: NPS is the federal land managing agency within
Glen Canyon NRA. Other NPS units form a corridor along the Colorado River,
and the NPS is the resource manager for a portion of designated critical
habitat for endangered fish.
a. Organic Act of 1916: The National Park Service has as its agency
mandate to "conserve the scenery and the natural and historic
objects and wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the
same in such a manner and by such means as will leave them
unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations".
b. NPS Fishery Management Policy (NPS-17, 1988): Fishery Management
Policy states:
"Reservoirs, and in some cases channelized or otherwise manipulated
rivers and streams, represent altered environments that-may reduce
populations of some native species of fish and encourage others..."
The new ecological environments and niches created by the alteration
of natural waterways may be most successfully filled by exotic fish
species; nevertheless, management activities will give precedence to
native fish species over exotics wherever native species are
adaptable to the altered environment... (4:8)"
c. Redwood National Park Act (P.L.90-545): This act includes both park
specific and system-wide provisions, such as protection of the
watershed to reduce upstream sedimentation impacts, rehabilitation
of past timer harvested areas, and increased economic assistance in
the effected local community. Congress reaffirms and directs that