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Upcoming events <br />• The fish ladder at Redlands Diversion Dam is slated to open in April 1996, just in time for <br />the spring spawning season. <br />• The revised biological opinion on the operation of Flaming Gorge Dam, on the Green <br />River in northeastern Utah, is due in December 1997. <br />• A biological opinion on the operation of Blue Mesa Dam and the Aspinall unit, on the <br />Gunnison River in southwestern Colorado, is due in March 1997. <br />• On the Green River near Vernal, Utah, the Recovery Program will work cooperatively with <br />area landowners to restore some riverside wetland areas for young endangered fish (Young <br />fish grow significantly faster in these areas, which have warmer water and plenty of food.) <br />With "willing sellers" of property considered highly valuable for endangered fish, the <br />Recovery Program hopes to pay individuals a fee in exchange for allowing periodic flood- <br />ing of the property. Levees will be partially removed on five to 10 properties, allowing <br />water to enter at lower flows. Similar actions are planned on the Colorado and Gunnison <br />rivers in 1997. <br />Eight new hatchery "refuge" ponds are to be constructed this year — four in Craig, Colo., <br />and four more at the Wahweap facility near Big Water, Utah. At the Ouray Endangered <br />Fish Hatchery in Utah, a total of 36 ponds are to be completed by 1997. Up to eight acres <br />of ponds will be leased in western Colorado's Grand Valley. <br />Plans call for stocking 2,000 bonytails in Utah in 1996. Also, as many as 13,000 razorback <br />suckers of different sizes are to be stocked this year in the Gunnison River in southwest- <br />ern Colorado. <br />14 <br />