6010

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 6010
• Author: Binns, A., et al.
• Title: The Planning, Operation, and Analysis of the Green River Fish Control Project.
• USFW Year: 1964.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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The Mapping and Final .Location of Station Sites
As previously described, all the main streams of the project were
arbitrarily divided into ten-mile sections by map and photograph measurement,
During the summer of 1962, all thirty-eight station sites on the New Fork,
East Fork, Green, Big Sandy, Blacks Fork, and Henry's Fork Rivers were
exactly located in the field. .Fortunately, access throughout the project
area was sufficiently good to allow the stations to be placed very-close
to the planned ten-mile map points. Several of the station locations were
in very rough, remote country, requiring four-wheel drive truck equipment
and many hours of travel time.' To provide a comprehensive picture of trans-
portation problems, all distances to station sites were measured, timed, and
checked for vehicle-type requirements. A list of the highway distances
between station access roads was provided to project personnel.
Because much of the project's operation would be at night and most
of the participating personnel were totally unfamiliar with the Green River
drainage, it was necessary for efficiency and safety, that each individual
in supervisory capacity be relatively familiar with the station sites for
which he would be responsible. All supervisory personnel were conducted over
their assigned areas and familiarized with roads and identifying land marks.
As additional guidance aids, large marker arrows were placed at all main
turn-off points and questionable junctions. These arrows were painted a
bright, fluorescent orange and each had a reflective point to facilitate
night work. Each arrow also showed a large, black number corresponding to
the number of the station to which it pointed. Further assistance was
provided by a field map showing the general location, access, and number
for each station. Copies of this map were distributed to all personnel other
than the two-man station crews (Figure 9).
Personnel Organization and Servicing Arrangements
On a project of this size, it seemed advisable to organize all
personnel on a semi-military plan (Figure 10). Careful timing and coordina-
tion were essential in order to have "the assigned people doing the right
jobs in the proper places at the scheduled times." The Green River proper
was divided into four sections determined largely by general accessibility.
Section One included stations 1 through 5 and tributaries; Section Two,
stations 6 through 10; Section Three, stations 11 through 16; and Section
Four, stations 17 through 22. The stations in each. section were placed
under the direction of two experienced fisheries biologists assigned as
day and night section foremen. Their responsibilities included placement
of the two-man station crews on site, initiation of station flows, and
maintenance of planned time schedules.
Four assistant field chiefs, two far day and two for night shifts,
were assigned over the section foremen in total responsibility. These were
experienced fisheries biologists intimately familiar with the entire
project area. They were equipped with mobile two-way radio units and their
duties related to project coordination, assistance and advice to operating
field units, and liaison between field chiefs and all operational activities,
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