WSP08252

• File Number: 8240.300.02
• Description: San Juan River Recovery Implementation Program - Recovery Plans & Information
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 8/9/1992
• Title: San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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experts established under section 4 of the Endangered Species
Act) and are effective after approval by the Service. The
actions to achieve those objectives may fall within the purview
of a recovery implementation team. It is the goal of this
program to implement the recovery actions delineated in the
existing recovery plan formulated for Colorado squawfish and,
when final and approved, the actions set forth in the recovery
plan to be formulated for the razorback sucker.

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General recovery objectives for Colorado squawfish have been
identified in the amended Colorado Squawfish Recovery Plan
approved by the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) August 6,
1991. These objectives are:

1) Establish and protect self-sustaining populations in
their natural habitat throughout the current range of the
Colorado squawfish.

2) Legally protect habitat and remove the threat of
significant fragmentation.

Recovery objectives for the razorback sucker have not been
identified for the recently listed species but may include the
following:

l) Capture specimens and provide refugia for
representatives of presumable genetically distinct
populations.

2) Maintain and enhance wild populations in their natural
habitats.

3) Augment, if necessary, extant populations.

Specific species recovery goals will be developed for the San
Juan River basin using information developed as part of the
Implementation Program. Such goals will be formulated by the
respective recovery teams established for the endangered species
for approval by the Service. Specific goals established will
reflect the need to protect these fishes in the San Juan River,
and will recognize the value, contribution, and role of these
populations in recovery of the species throughout their ranges.

1.3 BIOLOGICAL BASIS FOR THE RECOVERY PROGRAM

1.3.1 water development

The San Juan River is a major tributary of the Colorado River
Basin. In 1922, the seven basin states of Utah, Colorado,
wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California signed a
compact dividing the Colorado River between the Upper and Lower