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• In 1995, Colorado squawfish spawning was documented in the Gunnison River and the 15 -mile <br />reach of the Colorado. This was the first documented spawning ever in the upper reaches of the <br />Gunnison and the first in the Colorado since 1982. <br />• The Utah State Engineer has set a new water rights policy for the Green River to protect releas- <br />es from Flaming Gorge Reservoir for endangered fish. Flows protected under this policy will be <br />protected from Flaming Gorge Dam downstream to the Duchesne River. <br />• The Service completed an internal Section 7 consultation that waives payment of the charge for <br />projects that deplete less than 100 acre -feet of water per year. This has simplified the Section 7 <br />consultation process for the majority of water projects in the upper Basin. <br />• The Fish and Wildlife Service and States of Colorado, Utah and Wyoming are developing pro- <br />cedures for stocking non- native fish in lakes and reservoirs in the Upper Colorado River Basin. <br />The procedures will ensure that such stocking is consistent with endangered fish recovery. <br />• Biologists completed an inventory of flood plain habitats for 870 miles of the Colorado, Green, <br />Gunnison, Yampa and White rivers last year. This inventory has been used to identify sites that <br />could be restored to provide additional habitat for endangered fish. <br />b s <br />2 _ 1 <br />Apr <br />." • * . J <br />*�, -- i3z � � r • s <br />r' <br />Two boys pose beside a large Colorado squawfish caught in the Green <br />River near Jensen, Utah, in the 1930s. <br />12 <br />