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<br />COLORADO RIVER RECOVERY PROGRAM <br />FY-1998 PROPOSED SCOPE OF WORK <br /> <br />Project No: ~B <br /> <br />Lead Agency: Colorado Division of wildlife <br /> <br />Submitted by: <br /> <br />Date: <br /> <br />William R. Elmblad <br />711 Independent Avenue <br />Grand Junction. CO 81505 <br />(970) 248-7178. Ext. 187 <br />FAX (970) 243-4611 <br /> <br />April 14. 1997 <br /> <br />Cateqorv: <br />-K- Ongoing project <br />Ongoing - revised project <br />Requested new start <br />Unsolicited proposal <br /> <br />Expected Fundinq Source: <br />-K- Annual funds <br />Capital funds <br />Other (explain) <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />II. <br /> <br />III. <br /> <br />Title of Proposal: <br /> <br />Interagency Standardized Monitoring <br />Program (ISMP) on the Colorado, <br />White, and Yampa Rivers in Colorado. <br /> <br />Relationship to RIPRAP: <br />Action Plan, Task No. <br />monitoring program. <br /> <br />General Recovery Program Support <br />V.A.1., Conduct standardized <br /> <br />Study Background/Rationale and Hypotheses: <br /> <br />The Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish <br />Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin has established <br />an Interagency Standardized Monitoring Program (ISMP) for <br />monitoring populations of endangered fishes in the upper <br />Colorado River basin. The goals of ISMP are (1) to <br />determine the status and trends in the populations of the <br />endangered Colorado River fishes, (2) to determine the <br />response of populations to different management or <br />recovery measures, and (3) to collect the data that can <br />be used to explain the relationships between physical and <br />biological parameters and the relative abundance of <br />endangered fish. The advantages of the ISMP include <br />standardized collection techniques among the <br />participants, reduced overall costs, more complete <br />synthesis of information for use in managing and <br />protecting the resources, and a coordinated, centralized <br />database that can be updated, and analyzed in a timely <br />and efficient manner. Recently the ISMP has been' revised <br />to include standardized data collecting to monitor other <br />fish populations that occur in association (sympatric) <br />with the endangered species of concern. <br />