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<br />Minutes of Water and Vegetation Management <br />Technical Subcommittee - December 9, 1980 <br />al JAH Z6 nn II ~'* <br /> <br />Richard F, Sanders <br />Mike Prewitt <br />Bill Loudermilk <br />J:lm Johnson <br />Robert Morgan <br />Barry Saunders <br />Clem Lord <br />Carl Slingerland <br />Vernon E. Valantine <br />Jack E. A:lmone <br />Bernard Smith <br />Wendell Styner <br />Dean F. Johanson <br />Richard L. Morgan <br /> <br />U,S. Forest Service <br />USF&WS, IFG <br />California Fish & Game <br />USF&WS <br />USGS <br />Utah Division Water Resources <br />Offica State Engineer <br />New Mexico <br />Calif.-Colo. River'Board <br />WPRS (DOl) <br />FERC <br />SCS <br />WPRS (DOl) <br />USF&WS <br /> <br />a.m. by Chairman-Richard <br /> <br />STATE (NCINEER <br /> <br />SANTA f~g~,. UT <br /> <br />Ft, Collins, CO <br />Blythe, CA <br />Albuquerque, 11M <br />Sacramento, CA <br />Salt Lake City, UT <br />Cheyenne, WY <br />Santa Fe, NM <br />Los Angles, CA <br />Sacramento, CA <br />San Francisco, CA <br />Portland, OR <br />Boulder' City, NV <br />Phoenix, AZ <br /> <br />The Subcommittee Meeting was called to order at 8:30 <br />Sanders. Those in attendance were: <br /> <br />A slide-tape overview of Incremental Methodology, produced by the Instream <br />Flow Group, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at Ft. Collins, Colorado, was <br />presented by Richard Morgan. It described the steps involved in applying the <br />Incremental Methodology in the field. It progressed from a description of <br />instream water needs to the recommendation of flow regimes based on the <br />analysis of special inatream variables. It is intended to serve only as an <br />introduction to the methodology. Details of field techniques, computer data <br />processing, and methods of negotiation are available in appropriate short <br />courses offered throughout the year by the Instream Flow Group. <br /> <br />Mr. Mike Prewitt, Instream Flow Group; Ft. Collins, Colorado presented a <br />status report on the Colorado River Fisheries Project. This project, funded <br />by Water and Power Resources Service in Salt Lake City, Utah, was begun in <br />1978 to gain biologic information for use in management and analysis of <br />endangered fish species in the Upper COlorado River Basin. Project areas <br />of study included (for both Colorado Squawfish and Humpback Chub) (1) spawning <br />requirements, (2) habitat preferences, (3) migration and movement, and (4) <br />techniques for successful culture. Other study areas were added later. <br /> <br />The Instream Flow Group was contracted in 1980 to provide assistance in <br />collecting physical habitat information on the Colorado and Green Rivers for <br />use in the'analysis of WPRS project operations. IFG, in addition to that <br />work, is providing a Framework Systems Model which provides water budget <br />and water quality simulation capabilities to provide a comprehensive view <br />of Colorado Basin Water Management possibilities. The proposed framework would <br />provide the ability to determine the most achievable desired fishery flow <br />regimes within proposed and predicted water budget and quality conseraints. <br /> <br />Mr. Bill Loudermilk, California Fish and Game Department, Blythe, California, <br />presented a status report on the fisheries investigation study of the <br />Razorback Sucker in Senator Wash Reservoir in the Lower Colorado Basin. <br />Mr. Loudermilk discussed, with the use of slides, ultrasonic telemetry <br />transplant procedures and monitoring techniques currently being used. He <br /> <br />B-12 <br />