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Recovery Plan for Colorado Pikeminnow Published
Photo: Taylor Horn releases a Colorado pikeminnow captured in the Redlands Diversion fish ladder. The fish was released back into the Gunnison River roughly 40 miles upriver of the dam at Escalante Canyon. Credit: Dana Shellhorn, USFWS DENVER — Today, the U.S. Fish...
Palisade High School Fish Hatchery Students Release Endangered Razorback Sucker into the Colorado River for Third Year.
The Palisade High School Fish Hatchery team make funny fish faces after successfully releasing the student raised endangered fish into the Colorado River. Photo by Mikaela Oles U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service By Michael Gross- Upper Colorado River...
Field Notes: Young Bonytail Found in Lake Powell
In March, this young bonytail was captured in Lake Powell. Catching a bonytail is always a rare event, but this time it's even more interesting because this little one is only about 5 months old and was stocked in the lake as a very small young-of-year about 2-3...
Colorado Pikeminnow Recovery Plan available for public comment
After many months of effort, the draft Colorado Pikeminnow Recovery Plan is ready for review on the Fish and Wildlife Website. The plan will be open for a 60-day public comment period. Recovery Plans are non-regulatory documents that act as a guidebook towards a...
Building Bridges Across Generations. Collaborative Solutions Through Community Conversations. The Palisade High School Partnership
Colorado State University Office of Engagement and Alpine Bank- David Miller of Alpine bank still treasures the values he learned as a 4-H participant growing up in New York. It’s those values, he says, that fueled his commitment to help develop an innovative high...
Students release razorback suckers into Colorado River
NBC11 Grand Junction, Colorado Palisade , Colorado (KKCO) - Students from Palisade High School’s Fish Hatchery Program released 250 razorback sucker fish into the Colorado River at Riverbend Park, which they’ve raised since last fall. Razorback suckers were once on...
Endangered Razorback Sucker Fish Released In Colorado River, With Kisses Goodbye From Students
CBS4 Denver PALISADE, Colorado Think of the bottom feeder sucker fish in a tank, lips suctioned to the glass, cleaning an aquarium nonstop. Now make that fish 3 to 4 feet long, possibly 30+ pounds, and witing for a big kiss and you have the razorback sucker.
Learning to Love the River
Editorial - Grand Junction Sentinel May 11, 2022 Last Wednesday, students from Palisade High School released about 250 razorback suckers into the Colorado River to bolster that population of endangered fish. It was made possible through a unique program the entire...
Possible Waterfall Forming Near Hite on the Colorado River as Lake Powell Drops
Zach Podomore, Salt Lake Tribune- A waterfall could soon form on the Colorado River as Lake Powell drops. A potential barrier to rafters, would a waterfall benefit endangered fish? An existing waterfall on the San Juan River provides some hints. Piute Farms Waterfall-...
Palisade High School Endangered Fish Hatchery students interviewed on the KAFM “Going Green” podcast
Michael Gross, Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program April 5, 2022- Student fish culturists Charlotte Allen, Kale Potter, Kyle Roten and John Hoppe and science teacher/hatchery manager Pat Steele from the Palisade High School Endangered Fish Hatchery...
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Native fish boomed around Moab this year, data suggest
Utah Division of Wildlife Resources biologist Sam Brockdorff holds a native razorback sucker before tagging and releasing it into the Colorado River. Photo by Katie Creighton/DWR Native fish boomed around Moab this year, data suggest High water likely helped razorback...