BOARD00950

• Board Meeting Date: 9/6/1985
• Description: Meeting Notes & Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

SUBSTANTIVE ~EASURES TO BE INCLUDED IN A RECOVERY AND
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CONSERVi\TION PL;\N FOR THE COLORADO SQUA\vFISH AND fIU~lPBACK CHUB

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I. Introduction

In an April 10, 1985 letter to David Getches, the Environ-

mental Defense Fund, the Sierra Club, Colorado wildlife Federa-

tion, Friends of the Earth, National Audubon Society, and Colorado

Trout Unlimited set out a number of principles that must form the

basis of a conservation plan for the endangered fishes of the

Colorado River system. The purpose of this document is to des-

cribe in some detail a package of substantive ~easures that, if

implemented as part of a comprehensive plan, would materially

contribute to preservation and recovery of the river system's

endangered fishes.

We looked to three guiding principles in developing these

. measures. First, the plan must prevent the extinction of any

species,

Second, it must be designed to bring about the recovery

of the listed specles,

While it may not be possible to recover

these species to the point \-Ihere they can be removed from the

list of threatened and endangered species, the plan must at least

recover the species to the ~oint where intensive InaJlagement 15 no

longer l~ecessar~' to ensure t!lei_r survival.

TIHrd, protection of

the ecosystems upon which these species depend for their existence

is vital to a nlearlingful, effective recovery and conservation plan,

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Thl s document <..10(:5 not deal 'dith the bony tail chub, ",,'hich is
in imminent dl1nger of extinction. Preservation of this species will
require irnplF:'mc:ntilt_.lOn of (1 sepClratc set of extraordinary measures.

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