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<br />SENr BY: <br /> <br />1-12-3(3 <br /> <br />3: t3PM <br /> <br />lIrAH WILDLIfE RES.- <br /> <br />303-236-0027;# 2(12 <br /> <br />No. r <br /> <br />(for Me uBe) <br /> <br />RECOVERY IMPLllHENTI\TION PROORNl <br />VOR THB ENDI\NOBRED FISH SPECIES <br />IN TIlE UPPER COLORADO 1Uvz;R 8M IN <br /> <br />n-199f <br />SCOl'B-<lV-WORJ: <br />RKSl!:ARCB PROPOS1t,L <br /> <br />L"..d Agency: <br /> <br />0.5. Bureau ot Reclamation <br /> <br />Category (check onel. <br /> <br />l$.uhmi.tted b;t' <br />l'.ddrees. <br /> <br />I~('.\ t.nntsch <br />1596 WA~ ~nr~h ~Qmnln <br />~a~~ L.ks citv. l~ R411~ <br />(8011 538-4756 <br /> <br />Onqoing pl:<>jeC';. <br />_X_ RaqueBted new start <br />Ud~licited project <br />out..ide funding <br /> <br />Phooss <br /> <br />Todd <:rnwl <br />Dent. of rfRhArtRR ~n~ W~ldlif.e <br />~~h state Un{vA~~l~Y <br />Looan, ttT R4~??-5~1n <br />(BOll 797-2498 <br /> <br />Tim Modd~ <br />Colorado R~ve~ Fish Project <br />,t'\~ tL. 1no w. _ suite 2 <br />VR~R1_ UT 84018 <br />(B01) 78'l-O~5. <br /> <br />Da.te: ..T~rml'!rv 12. 1995 <br /> <br />I. title of Proposal: <br /> <br />Jl:valuat.L110 the response ot 1:he Upper COlorado River Os.do aquatio Bystem <br />atter lavaa r<llIlOval (and .conDequent reconneot!on of floodplain wetlands <br />to ~ein channsl flowe), partioularlY the reBpons.. of the sndangered <br />f1sbr ra~arback &ucker and Colorado aquaw!LBn. <br /> <br />II. Relationship to RIPRAP, <br /> <br />Inunda1:ed floodplains and te~.aOBa are highly produotive components of <br />~he riverine 0000YAtom. These area_ of .hallow, Qlow-movi~ water <br />typically have hlgher nutrleQt concentratioos, primary productivity and <br />invertebrate densities (ongolng studies by Bhiozawal cooper, sQQ <br />Forsberq at a1. 1993) than adjacent areas of main channol flow, and <br />these w6tland. m~y aQrvQ sa a~BQntial ~ea~in9 habib~t f~r ~Q f~Gh <br />species, incluQlng thQ QndAngere4 razorba~k suaker and ColoradO <br />aquawfish. The opper colorado Rl~cr Basin Recovery lmplementation <br />progrlll1l has targeted acqubitloo of tloodplo.1n wetlands within the 100- <br />year floodplain, and reconnecting floodplaln wetlaods to main channel <br />tlowe to &eelet with reoov6ry activittes. ~heB& activities are based on <br />