News and Events-2014

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2014

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  • Date: 12/09/2014
  • Subject: GCDAMP Triennial Budget & Work Plan- FY2015-2017
  • From: GCMRC/ USBR (Via Linda Whetton)
  • Link: LINK to REPORT


  • Date: 12/08/2014
  • Subject: GCMRC Annual Report for 2014 Knowledge Assessment
  • From: GCMRC (Via Linda Whetton)
  • Link: Annual report FY 2014- LINK
  • Details: This report is prepared primarily for the Technical Work Group of the GCDAMP. It includes a summary of accomplishments, shortcomings, and recommendations related to projects included in GCMRC’s FY14 Work Plan for the GCDAMP.


  • Date: 12/08/2014
  • Subject: Lees Ferry Fishery Management Plan & Trout Management Flows
  • From: AZGF
  • To: Glen Knowles, Rob Billerbeck, AMWG Members
  • Details: Includes the desired goals for the fishery to reach Blue Ribbon status.
  • Link: LINK to Letter


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  • Date: 12/01/2014
  • Subject: Martin Litton, pioneering wildland guardian, dies
  • News Article-LINK
  • Details: Litton, made his name and his legend as a guide on the Colorado River, ... fought his way to the center of some of the biggest environmental battles of the last century, fiercely opposing the damming of the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon...he was a loud voice for taking hard stances, making sure the club didn't acquiesce to a pair of federal proposals to erect dams in the Grand Canyon."If I hadn't done what I did, I think it's very likely at least one of those dams would have been put in the canyon,...I was the only one screaming about them."


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  • Bureau of Reclamation Invests $9.2 million in Water and Power Research
  • Date: 11/19/2014
  • "Reclamation and its partners in the West are confronting an ever widening imbalance between supply and demand," López said. "By investing in research to develop innovative solutions we can provide tools to guide a sustainable water and power future for the West."
  • USBR LINK


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  • Date: 11/17/2014
  • USGS Report- Water Use in the U.S.
  • Details: Every 5 years, the USGS compiles and estimates water-use information in cooperation with State, Federal, and local agencies to document how the Nation's water resources are used.
  • LINK to USGS REPORT

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  • Date: 11/17/2014
  • Grand Canyon ‘quiet’ air tour flights expected to increase
  • LINK


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  • Date: 11/14/2014
  • Quagga Mussels officially confirmed in the Colorado River system just below Glen Canyon Dam and Lake Powell
  • The National Park Service confirmed Friday [November 14, 2014]
  • Details- Article LINK
  • ALSO: AZ Daily News- LINK
  • Date: 11/13/2014
  • Subject: Deterioration of the Lees Ferry Trout Fishery
  • Memo to: Secretary, DOI, GCDAMP
  • From: Fishery Representatives- IFFF
  • MEMO LINK


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  • Subject: NEW Chair for Socioeconomics Ad-Hoc Group (SEAHG)--- Leslie James
  • Forum: October TWG meeting -ADWR
  • Date: October 29,2014

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  • Finding Durable Foul-Release Coatings to Control Invasive Mussel Attachment Highlighted in Bureau of Reclamation Study

LINK to Video Clip--- USBR Mussels Page

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  • Estevan López begans serving as Principal Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation -Oct 2014
  • Additional Information
  • From: Anne Castle (Via Linda Whetton)
  • Date: 10/06/2014
  • Subject: Report and Recommendations Memo from Anne Castle to DOI Secretary Sally Jewell encompassing the outcomes from the three AMWG meetings held in fiscal year 2014
  • LINK to MEMO


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  • From: Helen Fairley
  • Date: 09/16/2014
  • Subject: Potential for Glen Canyon Dam release to inundate archeological sites in Grand Canyon
  • LINK to Report

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  • From: National Parks Service -- Brian Healy
  • Date: 09/09/2014
  • Subject: Translocation of HBC to Grand Canyon Tributaries & Related NN fish control activities: 2011-2013 Report
  • LINK to Report
  • Date: 08/28/2014
  • From: AMWG (Via LWhetton)
  • Subject: AMWG discussion on issues concerns and challenges

AMWG discussion on issues concerns and challenges- LINK


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  • Date: 08/27/2014
  • Subject: Anne Castle to step down as Secretary of Interior Designee in September 2014
  • Details:

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  • From: Linda Whetton
  • Date: 08/27/2014
  • Subject: Ann Gold retires from the Bureau of Reclamation in September 2014
  • Details: 140902 Ann Gold Retirement.jpg

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  • From: Earth Economics
  • Date: 08/27/2014
  • Subject: Nature's Value in the Colorado River Basin
  • Details: Final Report


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  • From: USGS
  • Date: 06/13/2014
  • Subject: River photographs collection- comparisons
  • Link: USGS Stanton Repeat Photography
  • Details: The Stanton photographs were matched on a series of river trips along the Colorado River starting in 1989.

Address processes for designating and implementing critical habitat

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  • From: USGS-GCMRC (Ted Kennedy)-- Via Marianne Crawford
  • Date: 05/08/2014
  • Subject: Citizen Science in Grand Canyon
  • Details: VIDEO LINK
  • From: USGS (Yackulic, Yard, Korman, and Van Haverbeke)-- Via LWhetton
  • Date: 03/06/2014
  • Subject: A quantitative life history of endangered humpback chub that spawn in the Little Colorado River: variation in movement, growth, and survival
  • Details: ABSTRACT and LINK
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  • From: USGS (Helen Fairley)-- Via LWhetton
  • Date: 03/05/2014
  • Subject: Precipitation Variability of the Grand Canyon Region, 1893 through 2009, and Its Implications for Studying Effects of Gullying of Holocene Terraces and Associated Archeological Sites in Grand Canyon, Arizona.
  • Details: ABSTRACT ---Open File Report http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2014/1006/
  • From: LWhetton-- Via Randy Van Haverbeke
  • Date: 02/28/2014
  • Subject: Long-Term Monitoring of an Endangered Desert Fish and Factors Influencing Population Dynamics
  • Subject: Mark-Recapture and Fish Monitoring Activities in the LCR in GC from 2000-2013
  • Details: Links: LINK Van Haverbeke 2013-- 2013 USFWS FINAL annual Report

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  • From: AMWG
  • Date: 03/21/2014
  • Subject: Amy Heuslein retires from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in March 2014
  • Details:
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  • From: USBR
  • Date: 02/27/2014
  • Subject: Reclamation Commissioner Michael Connor Confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Interior
  • Details: LINK

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  • From: AMWG
  • Date: 2/14/2014
  • Subject: John Shields retires from the Wyoming State Engineer's Office February 2014
  • Details:

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  • From: Linda Whetton
  • Date: Tue 12/31/2013
  • Subject: Dennis Kubly retires from the Bureau of Reclamation on Jan 10, 2014
  • Details:
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