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<br />001305 <br /> <br />. The Recovery Program heard little public reaction (good or bad) to this year's <br />nonnative fish management actions. Implementation of a comprehensive <br />communication plan is ongoing. <br /> <br />. The Recovery Program participated in the first annual Utah Wildlife and Rivers <br />Festival in Vernal. <br /> <br />. An abbreviated version of the Program Highlights document is being <br />developed for the partners' trip to Washington, D.C., next year. The traditional <br />document will also be prepared, but the shorter version is intended to better <br />meet the partners' needs as they visit with Congressionals and their staff. The <br />educational handouts in 2005 will be magnets and Post-it@ notepads. <br /> <br />. Interpretive Exhibits: Six interpretive signs for the Colorado Riverfront Trail in <br />Grand Junction will be installed by the City of Grand Junction on September <br />28. Custom-made park benches that have a Colorado pikeminnow silhouette <br />attached to the back are on order to accompany those signs and for use at <br />another site in Grand Junction and in Vernal, Utah. Interpretive signs will be <br />installed at the Yampa State Park Visitor Center on September 29 to correctly <br />state that chmmel catfish are nonnative to the Yampa River. The Grand Valley <br />Audubon Society is working with the Recovery Program to develop and install <br />an interpretive sign althe site where a levee was breached this summer to <br />improve habitat for endangered fish. <br /> <br />. The Recovery Program is pursuing the possibility of establishing an aquarium <br />with endangered fish at the Utah Field House Museum in Vernal. <br /> <br />. The Swimming Upstream newsletter will be distributed in November 2004. <br /> <br />. The Rec.overy Program will staff its exhibit at the Wyoming Water Association <br />in October in Casper, the Colorado River Water Users Association's annual <br />meeting in December in Las Vegas, the Colorado Water Congress' annual <br />meeting in January in Denver, and the Utah Water Users' workshop in March <br />in St. George. <br /> <br />VII. Recovery Pro~ram Management <br /> <br />Goal: To ensure effective implementation and coordination of the Recovery Program. <br /> <br />Status: <br /> <br />. The Recovery Program's electronic listserver has 185 subscribers and is one of <br />two key components of the Recovery Program's electronic communication. All <br />Program participants are strongly urged to subscribe. The Recovery Program <br />participants' web site (http://v>'WW.r6.fws.gov/crripl) has detailed Recovery <br />Program information such as upcoming meeting dates and times; meeting <br />agendas and summaries; a bibliography ofthe Recovery Program library; the <br /> <br />11 <br />