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3 Comments on Naturally Flooding Wetlands Should be Used to Develop Management Criteria (page 3). I am somewhat confused by this paragraph. It needs to be more clearly stated. If I understand the process, you intend to use some form of monitoring to quantify fish population response to "manipulated sites", "restored sites where levees have been removed", and '''existing reaches of the floodplain that presently flood during recurring flood pulse events under today's dam management scenario". I like this idea and believe that you do not need a massive sampling protocol to compare the three concepts but rather you should devise an index of relative success (e.g., standard wing- net survey of the shoreline in each area at the same time during the annual flood pulse period). Comments on Nonnative versus Native Fish Enhancement (page 4). If you design an intensive sampling effort for a short time period for each type of area (preferably in a replicated experiment), it should be possible to index both native and nonnative usage of the three types of sites with one standard survey. Most of the nonnative fish you described will be readily captured with wing or trap nets especially if both small and medium mesh nets are used. Comments on Goals, Objectives and Hypotheses (page 5). The goal statement should include levee removai. For example; "To restore and enhance natural floodplain habitats and functions that support recovery of endangered fishes in the upper Colorado River basin through selective removal of levees. Since this is a.strategic plan for levee removal, 1 am confused why there are objectives included for floodplain wetland restoration? I would delete the heading, i.e. FLOODPLAIN WETLAND RESTORATION OBJECTIVES. Then include 1. Reconnect flood plains with channel, with the objectives under LEVEE REMOVAL OBJECTIVES. Delete 2. Evaluate system responses. 3. Use manipulated......questions. and 4. Implement adaptive management under FLOODPLAIN WETLAND.......OBJECTIVES. Objectives 1 and 2 under LEVEE REMOVAL OBJECTIVES seem to be redundant, I would replace Number 1 with Number 1 from the WETLAND section. Objective 3; I recommend that the benchmark for timing and duration of inundation should be the historical condition (e.g., percentage of mean daily flow from a precontrol periOd) not the result of artificial flooding in sites such as Old Charlie Wash.