Las Animas - Bent County Library District

One of the principal purposes of the current study is to assess the implications, particularly with regard to future basin water needs of transferring a portion of the Juniper Project water rights to instream flow use to assist in the recovery of the endangered fishes.

The objectives of the present study are to follow-up on the recommendations of the previous study and to lay the groundwork for inter-agency decision-making regarding the water management future of the Yampa River basin. The study includes specific tasks to evaluate reservoir operations for water supply and for protecting and improving mainstem instream flows.

There are four endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River: the bonytail chub, the Colorado squawfish, the humpback chub, and the razorback sucker. Habitat management is one of five elements of the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin which is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, and water...