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<br />1972 - BOO trout in 2 ponds <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />1973 - BOO trout in 2 ponds <br /> <br />1974 - 1,200 trout in 3 ponds <br /> <br />1975 - 12,000 trout and 1,000 channel catfish in 9 <br /> <br />ponds <br /> <br />1976 - 11.600 trout in 9 ponds <br /> <br />An estimated 2,000 trout were caught from ponds at the <br /> <br />WHA in 1976, and fishing pressure is picking up rapidly <br /> <br />as new ponds become fishable. <br /> <br />4.) Endan~ered Soecies. No threatened or endangered species <br /> <br />have been known to make significant use of the area to <br /> <br />date. Peregrine falcons (Falco pere~rinus anstum) hsve <br /> <br />been observed hunting at the srea on rare occaaions during <br /> <br />) <br /> <br />migrations, but this uae is not expected to increase. <br /> <br />The endangered whooping crane (Grus americsns) is present <br /> <br />seaaonslly in the Ssn Luis Valley as a result of an exper- <br /> <br />iment by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Eggs taken <br /> <br />from the one remaining whooping crane nesting area in <br /> <br />Canada are pl_ced under greater sandhill crane foster <br /> <br />parents at Gray's Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Idaho <br /> <br />in an attempt to establish a separate flock of whooping <br /> <br />cranes. The sandhill crane foster parents are part of a <br /> <br />large flock that uses the San Luis Valley ss an important <br /> <br />stop during their migrations. The whooping cranea could <br /> <br />be attracted to the marshes, meadows and grsin fields <br /> <br />., <br />, <br />_" <br /> <br />-14- <br /> <br />(:(2718 <br /> <br />10105 <br />