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<br />protecting the habitat. This responsibility more r~~cl1tly has been <br />emphasized by the 1973 Endangered Species Act that requires us to <br />maintain the habitats and the species. We cannot do anything in the <br />Monument that would endanger them. So we do have an interest in what <br />is going on outside. If that is going to make our job difficult and I <br />impossible. of course, we will have to voice our objections to any- <br />thing that would change that habitat. We don't have the sole responsi- <br />bility for the endangered species. We do have the Bureau of Sport <br />Fisheries and Wildlife. The state and other federal agencies all have <br />the same requirements under the act. <br /> <br />Mr. Kuiper: 14ay I ask, what are the endangered species? <br /> <br />Mr. Reid: The Colorado squaw fish and humpbacked chub are both on the <br />endangered list. <br /> <br />Mr. Mavnes: I was at the Wild and Scenic Rivers hearing in Durango a <br />couple of months ago. I heard r4r. Haslem from this country here <br />address himself to the humpbacked chub and the squaw fish as endangered <br />species. According to the information that ~tr. Haslem gave the senators <br />down there, sometime in the past, ten years or so, the Colorado Division <br />of Wildlife poisoned the river to try to get rid of these fish. Now, <br />I don't understand how come now the Park Service is going to protect <br />the humpbacked chub and the squaw fish, when the Division of Wildlife <br />in the State of Colorado and the Division of Fisheries is poisoning <br />them. <br /> <br />Mr. Reid: The Park Service did not put the fish on the endangered <br />species list. This was done by the Secretary of the Interior. <br /> <br />~tr. Stapleton: On whose recommendation? Where is the input there? <br /> <br />Mr. Reid: Could I call on Vern Helbig? Vern, would you address your- <br />self to that? Vern is better qualified than I on fish. <br /> <br />~tr. Helbiq: I am not sure just what stream you are talking about. I <br />think it was probably the Green River below Flaming Gorge that was <br />poisoned when that dam was put in. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Navnes: I am not sure, but ~tr. Haslem is standing right back there <br />and he can tell us. <br /> <br />Mr. Haslem: September 19, 1962. It was the Green River and they killed <br />the fish all the way to Jensen, Utah. They used organic poisons for <br />the purpose of killing off the trash fish in order to create a trout <br /> <br />-8- <br />