Desert Fishes Council in Grand Junction

Grand Rivers: Challenges and Opportunities in Conservation of Native Fishes in the Upper Colorado River Basin

Preliminary list of presentations:

• Dave Speas: Symposium/recovery programs overview.
• Kevin Bestgen: Status and composition of fishes in the Upper Colorado River Basin
• Cat Adams: Reducing entrainment through a fish-friendly canal screen
• Kayla Kelly: If you build it, will they pass? A systematic evaluation of fish passage efficiency for three large-bodied warmwater fishes
• Casey Pennock: Translocation in a fragmented river provides demographic benefits for imperiled fishes
• Tildon Jones: LTSP updates, role of floodplain wetlands in recovery.
• Kate Lawry: Management of smallmouth bass in the Upper Colorado River Basin, past present and future
• Kevin Bestgen: Flow spikes to disadvantage smallmouth bass in the Green River
• Koreen Zelasko: Bonytail news/propagation updates.
• Zach Ahrens and/or Brian Hines: PIT tag data use in HBC pop estimates
• Derek Elverud: Pikeminnow population trends in the Colorado River
• Mike Gross: Palisade High School Fish Hatchery