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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7781
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Recovery Plan for WOUNDFIN,
• USFW Year: 1979.
• Copyright Material: NO

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
Memorandum
To ~ Regional
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FROM ~o~'~e910na1
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
P.O. BOX 3737 PORTLAND, OREGON 97208
Director, Region 2, Albuquerque, NM o,arE: December
Director, Region 1, Portland, Oregon (AFA-SE)
sue~ECT: Review of Draft Woundfin Recovery Plan
(Re: your 12/6/77 memo)
ire received the subject draft plan for review. Overall, the plan is
prepared, and we have only minor comment as follows:
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Page 28 and-Part III, page 2) - Item 141. The team's recommendation
toto pu~into pu ~c ownership a~nc~s irr~aiately adjacent to the Virgin
River" must be more specific to be of value for agency implementation.
Along-how many river miles and between what points is this recommenda-
tion applicable to? How far back from the water course is acquisition
necessary? Approximate acreage of private lands involved, by state,
etc.
There are a number of cases where the step-down is incomplete or doesn't follow
through. For example, Item 12 of the step-down, the enhancement of marginal
habi-tat in present range, will not be accomplished through completion of
Items 121 and 122 that call only for identification of habitat and habitat
enhancement features. An additional objective, i23, that entails the actual.
enhancement work,. must be included to fulfill 12. In general, as was the
case with acquisition, objectives and actions should be more specific. This
goes for the prime objective, which as stated calls for restoration to non-
endangered status. Presumably this means restore to threatened status; or
does the team feel full plan co~letion would qualify the fish for complete
de-listing? .

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