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

... Public complacency
... Treat symptom of larger problem

3. List of what can be done

better
... More knowledge of impacts
caused by non-native fish
... Give meaning to recovery plan.
- $$$
- Equitable cost sharing
- More clearly defined recovery
goals - tells whether you
should try

I. Summary comments of

what's not working
... The goal of how addressed by
ESA should be changed/improved
... Species by species recovery is not
practical
... Habitat approach would be better
than species to species
... Critical habitat designation done
without full implication of
biological effect
... Is recovery of self-sustaining
population possible in Colorado
River basin?
... Are we ready to assess successes
- need to look at longer time
frames
... Fish are long-lived - can not
make judgments in short time
frame
... Can protect those we know that
are there now, by reaches (if

I. Discussion of what IS and

is not working.
... It is too early to draw many
conclusions about what is and is
not working

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- Stakeholders Role/
Communities - greater
certainty, greater participation
- Incentives needed in ESA to
facilitate
- Tie more closely to critical
habitat design and justify the
choices of critical habitat.
... Define broader role for state, local,
tribal government.
... Funding
- Look at what gets funded
- Get most bang for the buck
- Define beneficiaries (both

GROUP 2 - Sue Lofgren

necessary) at least in certain areas.
At least must move forward
... Forced choices of when to allocate
resources with diminishing funding
... Interagency competition for funds
... No objective measure for recovery
... Recovery as defined is a train
wreck coming - if other states do
not buy into program/plan
... Acts/provisions can be reopened

2. List of what we can do

better
... Crisis coming between river flow
manipulation and protecting water
allocation
... Movement to get stakeholders to
work from divergent views for
common goals. Need forums to
achieve this.
... Define what is needed to species
needs for recovery

GROUP 3 - Eva PaUon

... What constitutes recovery?
- Natural habitat
- Self sustaining population
- Whole basin or small
portions

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upper and lower sides)
- Have carrot and stick
incentives (measure of
impact on ecosystem)
... Basin-wide approach to recovery
(problem shared)
... Points of view - Issue - Need for
way to incorporate scientific input
to ecosystem wide approach to
recovery (science, fish)
... Just do it!
... Federal to federal fiduciary role
... Preventive maintenance vs. "train
wreck" approach

... Need regional approaches & goals
- not national goals
... More involvement by state
wildlife agency & sports
constituency
... All needs, issues approaches need
to be on the table
... Need ability to plan/act on region
to region, not area to area basis
... Opportunities may be available
for marketing e.g. effluent that
would offset
... Recognition that there are some
things that exist now that won't
be changed e.g. Hoover Dam
... Agency spending monies does not
mean species recovery - need to
make sure that monies are well
spent
... What is the environmental
baseline that is to be used?

- Removal of introduced

species
- Is human intervention

(forever) acceptable
- Can human intervention be