WSP07684

• File Number: 8240.200.10.B
• Description: UCRBRIP Annual Report
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/22/1997
• Author: UCRBRIP
• Title: 1997 Annual Reports Package Part 3
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

collections (tentatively called OZ). We now expect the replacement program late in
FY98.

As of September 30,1997, a total of37,122 lots offish have been catalogued as part
of the LFL Collection. Of these, 12,26810t5 were added since the tabulated listing of
samples sets included in the final report for Colorado Recovery Implementation
Program Project 20 (Snyder, D. E. 1996. Preserved larval and small-fish collections
of the Upper Colorado River Basin: maintenance and cataloging of a valuable
historical database). These additions include 24 sets of collections from the UCRB.
Of these, 7 sets of collections consisting of3,300 lots were backlog (pre-I 994)
collections. The remaining 17 sets of collections were cataloged as part of collection
identification and processing conducted in FY 96 and FY 97. We had originally
planned to catalog and upgrade 6,800 backlog collections in FY 97, but because of
time and personnel limitations resulting from receipt of more collections for
processing than anticipated, carry-over of FY 96 collection processing, and spending
considerably more time pursuing the matter of collection permanency than
anticipated, work on the remaining 3,500 backlog collections planned for FY 97 has
been deferred to FY 98. Appendix II lists the various sets of collections cataloged
since the Project 20 final report.

VII. Recommendations:

Preserved collections from the Upper Colorado River Basin (VCRB) serve as voucher for
many Recovery Implementation Program (RIP) investigations and as a long-term source
of additional biological and historical information. In recognition of their importance to
RIP, we had proposed in a 12 February 1996 memorandum to the Biology Committee
that a new General Recovery Program Support task be incorporated in RIPRAP to:
"Provide for long-term care, cataloging, and accessibility of preserved collections as
voucher for Recovery Program research and as a resource for additional biological
and natural history iriforma/ion. "
We further suggested that the task could be treated parallel to V.A.2 as Task V.A.3.
However, we also noted that both V.A.2 and the newly proposed task are related to other
subsections within Task V (particularly Task V.B "Conduct research to acquire needed
life history information") and that perhaps both should be treated parallel to those
sections, as Tasks V.E and V.F, or as two items under a more broadly stated Task V.E.

We understood through verbal communication with Dr. Wydoski that the above
recommendation was considered and accepted by the Biology Committee, but we did not
find the change in the March 1 I, 1996 RIPRAP. Accordingly, we recommended in our
FY 96 Annual Report (project 15) that this new and already approved task be
incorporated in the March 6, 1997 revision of RlPRAP, but it was not. So, once again,
we recommend that the approved task be incorporated in the next (March 1998) revision
of RlPRAP.

Over 50% of our current holdings of nearly 3 million Upper Colorado River Basin

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