8012

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8012
• Author: Grand Canyon Trust.
• Title: Colorado River Workshop, issues, ideas, and directions ‎(February 26-28, 1996 Phoenix, Arizona)‎ An open forum for discussion of management issues between managers, water users, and stakeholders of the Colorado River basin.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: 1996.
• Copyright Material: NO

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ENDANGERED SPECIES

NATIVE FISH RECOVERY EFFORTS

Authors
Robert Wigington & Dale Pontius
The Nature Conservancy

Panelists

George Arthur, Navajo Nation
Dan Luecke, Environmental Defense Fund
Chris Harris, AZ Department of Water Resources

OBSERVATIONS

The following observations serve as a general summary provided by the conference conveners and do not represent any
"consensus" of the workshop participants. The full (verbatim) notes from each breakout session are provided in this
report following the text of each discussion paper.

This session focused on the implementation of the fed-
eral Endangered Species Act, a powerful tool aimed at
protecting species from extinction. The paper prepar-
ers, Robert Wigington and Dale Pontius, presented a
comparison of native fish recovery efforts in three parts
of the Colorado River basin, and used these examples
to critique the effectiveness of endangered species pro-
tection. A panel of speakers from tribal, state, and
environmental advocacy perspectives then responded

to the paper, providing their own ideas for improve-
ment of the program.

After the panel discussion, participants broke into
three groups to consider these suggestions and to eval-
uate the federal endangered species program based on
their experiences. The groups began by listing the areas
in which endangered species protection is working,
pointing out, for example, that we now have more

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