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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Meeting Format: • Overview of Recovery Program
• Overview of 2014/2015 Hydrologic Conditions
• 2014 Recovery Project Presentations
• Data Integration and Evaluation
• Overall Discussion and Wrap-up
2015 Annual Meeting
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Goals of the Program: • Conserve and recover populations of Colorado
pikeminnow and razorback sucker in the San JuanRiver Basin
• Proceed with water development in the Basin inaccordance with all applicable laws, compacts, andtreaties
Established in 1992
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
• State of Colorado• State of New Mexico• Bureau of Reclamation• Bureau of Indian
Affairs• Bureau of Land
Management• Fish and Wildlife
Service, R2 & R6• Conservation Interests• Water Development
Interests
Program Partners
• Navajo Nation• Jicarilla Apache Nation• Southern Ute Indian Tribe• Ute Mountain Ute Indian Tribe
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
• Cooperative Agreements (extended program to 2023)
• Public Law 106-392 (established funding to 2011)
• Public Law 112-270 (extended funding to 2019)
• Program Document (updated Sept. 2012)
• Species Recovery Goals (2002)
• Long Range Plan (updated annually)
• Annual Work Plan (developed annually)
Guiding Documents
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Program Organization
Coordination Committee • Ensure Program goals are meet in a timely manner•Establish Program policies, direction, procedures &organization•Approve annual work plans & budgets
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service •Program Office/Coordination•ESA Compliance & Sufficient Progress•Data Management and Integration•Information and Education
Bureau of Reclamation •Funds Management/Coordination•ESA Compliance/Navajo Reservoir Ops.•SJR Hydrology Model & FlowRecommendations
Ad Hoc Committees Biology Committee
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Element 1 – Management and Augmentation ofPopulations and Protection of Genetic Integrity
Element 2 – Protection, Management, and Augmentationof Habitat
Element 3 – Management of Nonnative Species Element 4 – Monitoring and Evaluation of Fish and
Habitat in Support of Recovery Actions Element 5 – Program Management and Assessment of
Progress toward Recovery Element 6 – Information and Education
Recovery Elements and Actions
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Element 1 – Augmenting Populations
Fish Production Facilities:
• Southwestern Native AquaticResources and Recovery Center(Southwestern ARRC)
• Navajo Nation NAPI Grow-OutPonds
• Horsethief Canyon Native FishFacility Ponds at Ouray NFH
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Element 2 – Habitat Improvement Improving Habitat:
• Provide suitable flows• Provide sufficient range• Provide suitable habitat
including• Healthy native fish
community• Provide suitable water
quality
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Element 3 – Nonnative Species
Managing Nonnative Species:
• Control problematicnonnative fish
• Prevent introductions ofinvasive species
• Collect rare fish capture-recapture monitoring data
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Element 4 – Monitoring and Evaluation of Fish and Habitat
Assessing Recovery Actions:
• Monitor fish populations• Monitor natural and restored
habitat• Evaluate and integrate
monitoring data• Identify and conduct research
and monitoring in support ofrecovery actions
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Program Management
Element 5 –Program Planning and Management
• Service: Program management and assessmentof Program progress toward recovery
• Reclamation: Contracting and funds management
Element 6 – Information and Education • In conjunction with Upper Colorado River
Endangered Fish Recovery Program
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
FY2014 Expenditures
Total = $2,479,028
Program Management
10% Funds
Management 7%
I&E 1%
Habitat Restoration
4% Non-Native Fish Management
22%
Research & Monitoring
35%
Flow Management &
Protection4 5% Propagation &
Genetics Management
17%
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Wrap-Up
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
2014 Summary • Larval collections show both endangered fish are reproducing
• More adult Colorado pikeminnow caught than any previous year
• 300 larval Colorado pikeminnow captured (56 captured in the previous 20 years)
• Evidence of razorback sucker recruitment in the San Juan River
• Many razorback sucker persisting and reproducing in Lake Powell
• TNC Phase II habitat restoration sites completed
• Five San Juan River data integration papers published in scientific journals and one in-review
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San Juan River Basin Recovery Implementation Program
Current Activities • 2015 Navajo Dam environmental releases workshop
• Additional remote PIT tag reader installations
• UCR and SJR Recovery Programs consolidated database
• More testing for effectiveness at Hogback Fish Weir
• Comprehensive monitoring at habitat restoration sites
• Assessment of razorback sucker augmentation program anddevelopment of new plan
• Assessment of fish entrainment at structures in the San Juanand Animas rivers
• More sampling below Lake Powell waterfall