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B-6. A form of this recommendation has been incorporated into the <br />final Recovery Plan. <br />B-7. Woundfin populations should be monitored in the Virgin River and <br />reintroduction localities until the species no longer faces extinc- <br />tion and can be down-listed. <br />B-8. Agree that the Team should not be monitoring woundfin populations <br />in the Virgin River. This effort is now being contracted out to a <br />single group as agreed upon by the three state agencies involved. <br />B-9. The Habitat Management Plans alluded to have been combined into <br />one master Habitat Management Plan. Specif is details have been <br />omitted from the Recovery Plan but will be made available to the <br />Bureau of Land Management through the state and federal agencies <br />involved and the Team. <br />B-10. Several potential reintroduction sites have been suggested in <br />the Recovery Plan. The rivers suggested here are all above the <br />Grand. Canyon and are outside of the historic range of the woundfin, <br />as is the Paria River originally suggested in the draft Recovery <br />Plan. <br />B-11. The figure is the estimated cost to make one transplant of wound- <br />fin from the Virgin River. Most reintroduction efforts will <br />include several transplants over a 3-5 year period and two trans- <br />plants are suggested for Arizona (Gila and Verde rivers). <br />B-12. Cost has been increased. <br />B-13. At present the designation of critical habitat for reintroduced <br />populations is in a great state of flux. The approach suggested <br />in the Recovery Plan seems reasonable until more definite guide- <br />lines are available. <br />B-14. In many cases, the costs have been increased to meet current <br />prices. <br />B-15. This change has been made in the final Recovery Plan. <br />C-l. These suggestions have been incorporated into the final Recovery <br />Plan. <br />C-2. Population projections alone for the St. George, Utah, area <br />indicate a definite increasing demand on the Virgin River water. <br />C-3. The proposal for woundfin critical habitat was published in the <br />November 2, 1977, Federal Register and included the Virgin River <br />from LaVerkin Springs to Lake Mead and the lower six-miles of <br />LaVerkin Creek. Plans were to refine this in the final rule- <br />50 <br />