North Platte River Fish Survey Casper to the Nebraska State Line

• Description: related to Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• State: WY
• State: CO
• Basin: North Platte
• Date: 3/1/2000
• Author: Susan Broderick U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Technical Service Center Denver, CO
• Title: North Platte River Fish Survey Casper to the Nebraska State Line
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

TABLE OF CONTENTS (continued)
Comparison of Temperature Profiles Above and Below the Reservoirs .. Page 53
DISCUSSION......................... ............................... Page 53
Turbidity Tolerance ......... Page 54
Native Species ................... ............................... Page 54
Species Observations . Page 57
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LITERATURE CITED .................. ............................... Page 61
Appendix
Tables
Table 1. Summary of locations, g ear, effort , species captured, and size ranges ........ Page 6
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Table 2. Summary of catch for each species by study reach ...................
Figures
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Figure I. Study area ........ -����-��- �- ������
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Figure 2. E. K. Wilkens sample site ............. .
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Figure 3. Cole Creek sample sites ...............................
Figure 4. Ed Beddow, Biologist, Reclamation, measures a rainbow trout - Cole
Creek Bridge to Monkey Hill Bridge raft electrofishing ...... • .. • • •
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Figure 5. Cole Creek Bridge to Monkey Hill Bridge typical habitat ................
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Figure 6. Glenrock and Bixby Access Areas ...............................
Figure 7. PP &L Glenrock access bridge. A water temperature data logger was
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placed on a piling (second group from right) ...........................
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Figure 8. Bixby Access Area ........................ • • • • • • • • - .._........
Figure 9. Anderson Dairy Bridge to Fitzgerald Access Area ..................... ...,_. -...
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Figure 10. Susan Broderick with a brown trout, Anderson Dairy Bridge to
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Fitzgerald Access Area section ................... .
Figure 11. Typical habitat at the Anderson Dairy Bridge to Fitzgerald Access
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Area section ....... ...............................
Fitzgerald Access Area to Wagon Hound Creek ........... . ..........
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Figure 13. Shallow shoreline area in the Fitzgerald Access to Wagon Hound Creek
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section ................ .
Figure 14. Confluence of Wagon Hound Creek. Brad Rogers, USFWS- Del Smith,
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Reclamation; and Dave Felley, USFWS, looking upstream ............... .
line Access Area sample site
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Figure 15. Orin Access to Byron Wilson/County
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Figure 16. Del Smith with walleye, below the dam at Orin ....................
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Figure 17. Sampling for small fish in edge habitats, Orin section .............. • • .
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Figure 18. Glendo Dam outlet and Bull's Bend sample sites ..................
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