6001

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 6001
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, C. R. F. R. T.
• Title: Colorado Squawfish Recovery Plan.
• USFW Year: 1978.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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. Memorandum ~ i_ : ~.
To: Regional Director, Region 6
Fish and Wildlife Service
' From: State Director, Colorado BLM
Subject: Draft Colorado Squawfish Recovery Plan
This is in response to your August 19 memorandum requesting our review
and comment on the subject plan.
Commitment to energy/minerals and grazing environmental statements .and
' Bureau planning is the first priority of the wildlife program in
BLM-Colorado. fleeting these commitments and implementing the, proposals
discussed in the recovery plan could lead to conflicting requirements
in our management decisions. We hope to have a prominent role in the
recovery effort so that we can be involved in identifying and resolving
such conflicts.

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The stepped down items in the proposed budget are basin-wide in scope.
For our purposes, it will be necessary to consider budget allocations on
a state prorated basis. We have asked our Washington Office for direction
and coordination as to how these prorations should be made among each
of the BLM State Offices.
In order to accomplish the amount of field work and project implementation
shown in the suggested funding levels, additional funds would be needed
in our annual wildlife budget. These would be available through our
normal budgetary process in FY 79 at the earliest. Funding from supple-
mental sources at an earlier date is possible, but unforeseeable.
Specific comments to the itemized proposed budget follow:
~1 1. The proposed time frame (1977-1980) of the recovery plan is no
longer applicable. It would be more useful from the standpoint of
planning needs to use the terms, "Year 1, Year 2," etc.
1~2 2. Items 131 and 132, Prepare and Implement Habitat Management Plans:
This is part of the Bureau's normal planning process. However, public
ownership of riparian stream reaches within designated critical
habitat is limited, making opportunities for our funding habitat
restoration or improvement limited also.
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