Adaptive Management Work Group (AMWG)
Public Meeting
August 12, 2009 (9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.)
August 13, 2009 (8 a.m. - 3:15 p.m.)
Fiesta Inn, 2100 South Priest Drive (Encantada Ballroom)
Tempe, Arizona
Federal Register Notices(s):
Pre-Meeting Information:
- Draft Minutes from August 12-13, 2009, Meeting and Attachments
- Attachment 1: Action Item Tracking Report
- Attachment 2: Ad Hoc Group List
- Attachment 3: USFWS News Release: Northern Leopard Frog in West May Warrant Federal Protection
- Attachment 4a: Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill, 2010 language (note last paragraph on GCD Adaptive Management Program); Attachment 4b: Letter from various U.S. senators, to Daniel Inouye, Byron Dorgan, etc., Subj: Concerns on Energy and Water Development Appropriations Bill, H.R. 3183
- Attachment 5a: Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Updates: Update on Reporting Schedule for the March 2008 High Flow Experimental Results PPT; Attachment 5b: Fiscal Year 2010-11 AMP Fish Monitoring: Incorporating Protocol Review PPT; Attachment 5c: Summary of 2008 Mechanical Removal Project PPT; Attachment 5d: Nonnative Fish Management Plan PPT; Attachment 5e: Nonnative Fish Management Plan, Summary of Plan tasks included in the GCMRC FY10-11 Work Plan; Attachment 5f: Fall Steady Flow Experiment Science Plan PPT; Attachment 5g: Report on the Cultural Monitoring Research and Development Project PPT; Attachment 5h: Update on Sediment Inputs and 2008 High Flow PPT; Attachment 5i: Update on the General Core Monitoring Plan for the GCD AMP PPT
- Attachment 6a: Humpback Chub Comprehensive Plan: "Draft Comprehensive Plan for the Management and Conservation of Humpback Chub and Science Advisors' Comments and the responses of SA comments; Attachment 6b: Humpback Chub Comprehensive Plan PPT
- Attachment 7a: AIF - FY2009 Mid-year Expenditures; Attachment 7b: BOR Expenses through June 30, 2009; Attachment 7c: Public Outreach AHG Budget Process Report; Attachment 7d: USGS Expenses through July 6, 2009
- Attachment 8a: FY2010-11 Draft Budget, Worplan, and Hydrograph; Attachment 8b: Basin Hydrology PPT; Attachment 8c: TWG Chair Report and PPT; Attachment 8d: Minority Report Recommendation ... Specifically on the Mainstem Nonnative Fish Control Prroject (BIO 2.R.16) and "Trout or Humpback Chubs PPT; Attachment 8e: 1) Dissenting report, 2) Letter from Governor Normal Cooeyate, Pueblo of Zuni; 3) Bureau of Reclamation Response Letter Dated August 4, 2009; Attachment 8f: Memo from Dennis Kuby dated 6/21/09, Subj: Proposed Biennial Budget and Work Plan to Support the GCDAMP in Fiscal Yars FY2010-22 ; Attachment 8g: Memo from John Hamill dated 7/14/09, Subj: Biennial Work Plan to Support the GCDAMP Fiscal Year 2010-11 and PPT; Attachment 8h: GCDAMP Status of Experimental Funds FY2008-12; Attachment 8i: Workshop Prospectus to Guide Development of a Work Plan and Request for Proposal to Address High Priority Socio-Economic Information Needs of the GCDMP; Attachment 8j: Budget Motion and Proposed Amendments
- Attachment 9: AIF: Stakeholder Perspective by Arizona Game and Fish Deparment and accompanying PPT
- Attachment 10: TWG Chair Report
- Attachment 11: AIF: Funding for Non-native Fish Control and Other Future Funding Challenges and PPT
- Attachment 12a: AIF: 2007 and 2008 Conservation Measures and Conservation Measures Razorback Sucker PPT; Attachment 12b: Humpback Chub Translocation and Refuge Development and Chute Falls Translocation PPT; Attachment 12c: Shinumo Translocation PPT
- Attachment 13: AIF: Science Advisor Nominations and Appointments; Briefing Paper on Science Advisor Appointments for 2010-2012; Presentation to AMWG of Selections for Science Advisors Specialists for 2010-2012 PPT
- Attachment 14: Update on November 2008 Colorado River Science and Resource Management Symposium Proceedings
- Attachment 15: Beyond Conjecture: Learning About Ecosystem Management from the Glen Canyon Dam Experiment by Alejandro E. Camacho
- Attachment 16: Collaborative Management of Glen Canyon Dam: The Elevation of Social Engineering Over Law by Joseph M. Feller
- Attachment 17: June 2009 Monitoring of Humpback Chub (Gila cypha) and Other Fishes above Lower Atomizer Falls in the Little Colorado River, Arizona (Trip Report by Dennis M. Stone)
- Attachment 18: Ecological Role, and Potential for Reintroduction of Species Extirpated from the Colorado River Ecosystem, Glen and Grand Canyons, Arizona; Draft Executive Summary dated March 15, 2009, by Grand Canyon Wildlands Council and corresponding PPT