6013

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 6013
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, C. R. F. R. T.
• Title: Humpback Chup Recovery Plan.
• USFW Year: 1979.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

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United States Department of the Interior 6840
(0930)
BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT
• Utah State Office
136 East South Temple
University Club Building
Salt Lake City. Utah 84111 AUG 31 1978
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Memorandum: -
To: Regional Director, Region 6. Fish & Wildlife Service
Denver. Colorado
From: State Director, Bureau of Land Management; Utah
Subject: Continents on Draft Humpback Chub Recovery"Plan
(FA/SE/Colorado Fishes Recovery Team)
This refers to your July 26 memorandum requesting comments on the
subject plan.
We have been involved in the planning and preparation of this pfisheries
through the Bureau's official representative, Mr. Bob Gervais,
biologist, Colorado State Office. Our state office fisheries biologist,
as well as our Moab and Vernal districts' fisheries biologists have also
attended meetings and provided input into the plan, including proposed
budget estimates. We feel the plan adequately represents the present
situation of the Humpback Chub and its habitat.
We offer the following specific comments on the plan:
Page 15, item 21, dealing with locating all existing populations .
R-i ~y need to update present distribution based on the results of
our on-going contract with you. for inventory of fishes in the White
River in Utah. At present, however, no ce~bsre~insbeen sampled
during this contract, but fall sampling y
Page 19, item 25, Preparation of Habitat Management Plans (HMP)
for Endangered Species has been given priority in BLM. We will
coordinate HMP's for the Colorado River fishes with our Arizona
and Coloi{da Sears thatcFY8O would beothebeariiestndatenthatiHMP's
~n FY79 PP
work could begin.
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