Evaluation of a Resistance Board Weir in the White Salmon River For Capture of Lower Columbia River Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) for Transport during the Year of Conduit Dam Removal

摘要

The Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program (Recovery Program) coordinates recovery activities for the endangered Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), humpback chub (Gila cypha), razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), and bonytail (Gila elegans) in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Recovery Program was formed in 1988 and annually provides guidance for research, monitoring, and management actions through a Recovery Implementation Program Recovery Action Plan (RIPRAP). The RIPRAP was developed in 1996 as the Recovery Programs long range plan to identify specific activities and time frames required to recover the endangered fishes in the Upper Basin consistent with state and federal laws and compacts. The RIPRAP identifies activities and annual updates for research and management actions conducted in the Green, Yampa, Duchesne, White, Colorado, Gunnison, and Dolores rivers for five main program elements: Instream Flow Protection; Habitat Restoration; Nonnative Fish Management; Propagation and Genetics; and Life History, Monitoring and Research. The RIPRAP documents Program direction and accomplishments which facilitate continuation of the Recovery Program to provide Endangered Species Act compliance for projects undergoing Section 7 consultation.