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578 INTEGRATION REPORT FOR SAN JUAN RIVER RIP BIOLOGY STUDIES 1997 Work Plan BIO/WEST, Inc, Logan, Utah Jicarilla-Apache Tribe Background: The San Juan River Recovery Implementation Program has been conducting biological studies on the San Juan system since 1991 as part of a Seven-year Research Program. The studies have been quite varied, including fishery studies, hydrology studies, habitat studies, etc., and they have been carried - out by a fairly large group of agencies/researchers, including USFWS, Bureau of Reclamation, Park Service, State of New Mexico, State of Colorado, State of Utah, BIA, Southern Ute Tribe, and others. Annual Progress Reports have been prepared for each study and have been made available to the Coordination Committee and other interested parties. In 1995 an Integration Report was prepared that summarized the studies that had been conducted during the first four years of the Program within the context of the objectives ofthe Long Range Plan. Actual integration of study data was limited during that first year since the major task involved compiling all the information collected to that time. Lack of a common database also made it difficult to integrate data. But results of the ongoing studies were combined with other information from the Upper Colorado River Basin where appropriate to detail progress on the Long Range Plan objectives. The intent of the Integration Report was that it would be updated annually to keep interested parties up to date with the Program, and that data integration would be emphasized more after the first year. In 1996 the Integration Report was updated with information from the 1995 field research efforts, and was renamed the Summary Report. In 1997 the Biology Committee has agreed to not prepare annual progress reports since this will be the last year for most of the field research. Five subcommittees have been formed to integrate the information collected during the past 6-10 years to answer the various objectives and milestones of the Long Range Plan for the Program. We propose to complete an Integration Report in 1997 that will incorporate pertinent new information from 1996 studies, 1997 peer review results, and progress and results from the integration effort. The goal and objectives of the Integration Report include: Goal: Develop a report that accurately describes the major results to date of the San Juan RIP research studies to meet the adaptive management and reporting objectives of Section 5.7 of the Long Range Plan. 38