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<br />DRAFT-05/10/85 <br />PRELIMINARY CONCEPTUAL APPROACH TO RECOVERY OF <br />ENDANGERED FISH SPECIES IN THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN <br />1.0 INTRODUCTION <br />In February, 1984 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service <br />requested the States of the Upper Colorado River Basin and <br />U. S. Bureau of Reclamation Regional Directors in Denver and <br />Salt Lake City to participate in an Upper Colorado -River _ <br />Basin Coordinating Committee on Endangered Fish Species, <br />along with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional <br />Director, Denver. The State representatives included <br />Directors of the Department of Natural Resources of Colorado <br />and Utah, and representatives of the governor's office in <br />Wyoming. The Committee met and adopted a memorandum of <br />understanding to guide-the effort. A technical committee <br />and two technical subcommittees, hydrology and biology, were <br />established to address complex technical and scientific <br />issues. <br />The technical subcommittees have reviewed the hydrology of <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin, and the biology of <br />endangered fishes. The technical committees attempted to <br />draw conclusions regarding what is known and not known about <br />endangered fish species in the- Upper Colorado River Basin, <br />and the factors contributing to their present status. <br />After extensive consideration of the results of the <br />committee efforts, the dimension of the problem, and the <br />magnitude of social and economic consequences of alternative <br />solutions, it became apparent that a program to fully <br />recover endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin is needed, with the eventual goal of delisting these <br />species as required by the Endangered Species Act, This <br />1 <br />