Pallid Sturgeon and the Role of the Proposed Program

• Description: related to the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 1/1/2002
• Author: Working Group of the Technical Committee of the Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program or PRRIP)‎
• Title: Pallid Sturgeon Slides
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

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Brown, Rick
From: Dale Strickland fdstrickland @west - inc.com]
Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 4:49 PM
To: rick.brown @state.co.us; sharon_whitmore @fws.gov; mark_a_butler @fws.gov;
mpeyton @cnppid.com; Mark @cpnrd.org; jjshadl @nppd.com; rsutton @do.usbr.gov;
(hutch @ngpc.state.ne.us; Steven_Lydick @fws.gov
Cc: cderby @west - inc.com; pogle @missc.state.wy.us; dave_e_carlson @fws.gov; Jenniges,
James J.
Subject: Revised Monitoring and Research Plan w /attachment
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pallid research
materials 9.16... I have attached a file from Steve Lydick containing a revised monitoring
and research plan for the pallid sturgeon. This revision resulted from our
meeting September 12 in Ogallala, Nebraska. The file is labeled ##2 because
I deleted Steve's cover memo to me, since it was the same memo sent with
the previous version of the plan, and thus is dated. I also changed the
shading in Table 2 for the third year for item 43, i.e., the cell is shaded
with diagonal lines indicating the year three work is conditional. All
other contents in the plan are as received from Steve.
I believe that Steve made the edits suggested to him at the meeting.
However, there remains a number of areas of disagreement on the draft plan
between the Service some or all of the members of the working group. There
is at least one member of the group that disagrees with the Program
including the pallid sturgeon as a target species. There is disagreement
with the proposed plan because several people on the working group feel it
cannot be implemented given the apparent scarcity of wild pallid sturgeon
in the Platte River. There is disagreement with the plan because some of
the group feel it is too aggressive and disproportionat to our current
knowledge about the pallid sturgeon. There is also disagreement with the
plan because, in the view of some, it represents not only a research and
monitoring plan but a regulatory tool for the Service.
Regarding the specific tasks included in the plan the following is my
understanding regarding areas of agreement and disagreement given the
changes Steve has made. There is general agreement with tasks 35, 36, 44,
and 46. There is partial agreement on task 43, i.e., there is agreement
with macro- and meso- habitat mapping but not micro- habitat mapping. There
is no agreement on tasks 40, 41, and 42. Item 45 has been referred to the
Water Management Committee.
I will give a verbal report to the Governance Committee on Thursday of this
week and forward this plan (or another more updated plan if this version
changes) along with the draft pallid sturgeon baseline when we have
modified the baseline based on recent comments from the Technical Committee.
Dale
Dale Strickland, PhD.
Vice President and Senior Ecologist
Western EcoSystems Technology, Inc.
2003 Central Ave.
Cheyenne, Wyoming 82001
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e- mail:dstrickland @west - inc.com
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