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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
<br />We would like to thank the present and former Coordinator of the
<br />Floodplain Habitat Restoration Program from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
<br />Service, Pat Nelson and Dr. Richard Wydoski, respectively, and John Hawkins,
<br />Larval Fish Laboratory, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, for their
<br />guidance and assistance in developing appropriate research techniques and data
<br />evaluation. George Smith, Regional Hydrologist of the Fish and Wildlife
<br />Service, Denver, Colorado, and his staff provided hydrology support. Without
<br />support from key personnel in the Bureau of Reclamation, the hydrology portion
<br />of the study could not have been accomplished. Chuck Gallagher was
<br />instrumental in designing and establishing the field-based camera-recording
<br />equipment to obtain staff-discharge information. Terry Ayer, Blake Bailey,
<br />Burt Ives, Bob Levine, and Ted Juntilla from the Grand Junction, Colorado,
<br />Bureau of Reclamation Projects Office and Tom Jordan, Donavan Johnston and S.
<br />Lujan from the Provo, Utah, Office of the Bureau of Reclamation surveyed river
<br />cross sections. Pat Mangan and Andrew Montano from the Environmental Planning
<br />and Assessment Branch of the Bureau of Reclamation in Denver assisted with
<br />river cross sections. Bob Norman, Bureau of Reclamation in Grand Junction,
<br />and Tim Modde and Frank Pfeifer, Fish and Wildlife Service, provided
<br />administrative support. Both Bob and Jeff Baumgartner, The Nature
<br />Conservancy, often offered useful technical advice to the project. Gordon
<br />Mueller, Richard Wydoski, and Robert Muth provided useful comments and
<br />improved an earlier version of this report.
<br />We are grateful for the field work, assistance, and advice provided by
<br />Steve Brock, Dan Schaad, and Kelli Stone from the Ouray National Wildlife
<br />Refuge, and Tom Hatch and Gary Baker from the Colorado River Fishery Project
<br />(CRFP) in Vernal, Utah. We would like to thank CRFP biological technicians,
<br />John Rosendale, Sara Persselin, Chris Flann, Quentin Bradwich, and Bruce Bonar
<br />for their assistance in collecting field data. Mike Baker, Mike Montagne, and
<br />Greg Taylor assembled staff gauges and fabricated ammo boxes for housing
<br />cameras for the hydrology portion of the study.
<br />A special thanks goes to Greg Whitbeck and Mary Smuin from the U. S.
<br />Natural Resources Conservation Service, Vernal, Utah for the use of their
<br />camera equipment and photography skills. Carl Landini and his staff from the
<br />Consolidated Farm Service Agency in Grand Junction provided office space and
<br />digitizing equipment to obtain acreage estimates of bottomland habitat areas.
<br />Dave Webster from the Farm-Service Agency and Doyle Dow, real estate
<br />appraiser from the Bureau of Reclamation, were pivotal in working with local
<br />landowners in the Vernal, Utah, and Grand Junction and Delta, Colorado
<br />localities. We would also like to thank Randy Arment of Research Air, Inc.
<br />and Hank Heines of Dinaland Aviation for their skill and safety in assisting
<br />in the aerial reconnaissance survey work.
<br />Aerial photographs of the Colorado and Gunnison rivers were provided by
<br />Grady McNure and Ken Jacobson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory
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