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Are the suckers coming back?
Open house will offer
information on restoration work, research
Researchers will give updates on studies involving endangered Lost River and shortnose suckers at a public open house from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Shilo Inn.
The two species of fish were listed under the Endangered Species Act in 1988. In 1993, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a plan outlining steps needed to help the species recover. Over the past 15 years, extensive research provided new scientific information about both species.
During the informal open house, people
will be able to visit stations staffed by researchers from
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Klamath Tribes, U. S.
Geological Survey, Desert Research Institute, ECO Resource
Group, Oregon State University, The Nature Conservancy and
Utah Department of Natural Resources.
“It’s an opportunity for the public to talk to some of the recovery team members,” said Larry Dunsmoor of the Klamath Tribes.
Information stations
A welcome station will explain the purpose of the open house while another station will explain why the recovery plan is necessary, goals of the projects, descriptions of the process and the project timeline.
Dunsmoor will be at a station with a presentation on “changes in valley floor rivers that have challenged fish,” which describes changes in physical, chemical, biological conditions, water quality and habitat quality in rivers used by endangered suckers and other native fish.
Other stations will offer information on historic and current distribution and status of the suckers; historic and current habitat condition in Upper Klamath Lake; life history of long-lived Upper Klamath Lake suckers; comparison of healthy and unhealthy sucker populations; restoration of wetlands at the Williamson River delta; lessons from June sucker recovery efforts in Utah; and a completed restoration project that aided sucker recovery.
People may attend at any time during the three-hour period.
A short, informal recovery process presentation by Dr. Don Sada, the recovery plan project manager from the Desert Research Institute in Reno, will be at 7 p.m.
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