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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Two field chiefs were in charge of the coordination of project
operations. Both men were fisheries biologists with considerable knowledge
and experience in stream treatment work and related problems. Their schedule,
throughout the project, was divided into 12-hour shifts, during which time
each maintained radio contact with the general progress of the treatment
program. The field chiefs were prepared to provide trouble-shooting or
emergency assistance for any field unit at any time.
The coordination and direction was handled by two operational
chiefs, the fisheries management supervisors for the states of Utah and Wyoming.
Qne of these men was to-make continual daytime reconnaissance flights over
the areas of activity while the other was to maintain surveillance of field
activities from an airboat. Their observations were to provide constant
checks on treatment progress and effectiveness, as well as an efficient look-
out for field problems and trouble spots. Because of the superiority of line
of sight, air-to-ground radio communication, the airplane could serve as a
mobile relay for ground-to--ground information. The lack of dependability of
ground radio communication because of the long distances and rough terrain
rnade this an important consideration.
While many of the vehicles from Utah and Wyoming were equipped with
two-way radios, the radio frequencies of the two states are different. For
expediency, several Utah radio units were changed to the Wyoming frequency.
All supervisory personnel were ..radio- equipped. A portable two-way unit
installed in the Wyoming Department airboat, was to provide direct contact
with boat and station operations. Several more portable units were to be
distributed to the vehicles involved in airboat and helicppter servicing.
Commissary trailer units were also equipped with radios to provide centralized
communications posts.
Once the scheduled details of the entire operation were formulated,
it was possible to prepare manpower rosters and make specific assignments for
every job. A descriptive, chronological outline was prepared for all project
activities, (Appendix A). Supplementing this were schematic charts of the
hour-to-hour responsibilities of all. supervisory and supporting personnel,
(Appendix B); and a lodging roster covering all personnel assignments,
(Appendix C). In addition to these general directions, specific work sheets
were prepared for each section chief and each station crew, (.Appendix D and E).
The sheets described, on an hour-to-hour basis, each individual's duties
for the entire project and listed immediate supervisors, special equipment
requirements and billeting.
Lodging and eating arrangements were prearranged so that all
personnel would be assured of these facilities. As the communities along
the Green River are many miles apart, it was necessary to arrange an auxiliary
feeding system for men on duty. Two small house trailers were equipped to
serve as field commissary units. These, stocked with a variety of soft drinks,
coffee, sandwiches and snack material, were assigned parking and travel schedules
to keep them continually near the fields of major activity (Appendix F). Each.
individual was supplied with a copy of the commissary schedule, lodging roster,
scherrtatic treatment outline and his individual work schedule.
As there seemed little doubt that many trout would be killed through-
out the upper sixty miles of the treatment area, two crews were assigned to