News and Events-2015

2015

Date:June 3, 2015
From: USGS (Authors are Grams, Schmidt, Wright, Topping, Melis and Rubin)
Subject: Rebuilding Sandbars in the Grand Canyon
Details: Three years of releasing water from Glen Canyon Dam to generate controlled floods has resulted in rebuilding sandbars in the Grand Canyon, according to a new USGS article published in Eos.
The article is available open-access at:[1] press release:LINK
150603 USGS Rebuilding Sandbars in the Grand Canyon PDF LINK

Date:June 2, 2015
From: Scott Vanderkooi (Via Linda Whetton)
To: GCDAMP
Subject: Review comments from GCRMC staff: Lees Ferry Recreational Trout Fishery Management Recommendations: The Voice of Lees Ferry Anglers, Guides, and Businesses
Details: Attached are the review comments from GCRMC staff and Korman that were sent to Hamill regarding the document- Scott Vanderkooi would like these comments distributed to the GCDAMP.
Mike Yard
Charles Yackulic & Scott VanderKooi
Ted Kennedy
Josh Korman
Ted Melis

Date: Posted April 3, 2015 (For October 5-8)
From: Conveners: T. Melis ([email protected]) & S. VanderKooi ([email protected]), USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, GCMRC
Subject: 13th Biennial Conference of Science & Management on the Colorado Plateau & Southwest Region
Location: 2015 - High Country Conference Center - Flagstaff, AZ
Details: *LINK to Website Info
Theme: Multi-disciplinary Approaches to Assess and Respond to Climatic, Social, and Technological Changes
13th Biennial Conference on Science and management- Summary Page

Date: April 3, 2015 (GCMRC via Linda Whetton)
Subject: Flow management and fish density regulate salmonid recruitment and adult size in tailwaters across western North America

1500331 Dibble.Yackulic.Kennedy.Budy.preprint.EcolApps
From: An article resulting from a project funded in the GCDAMP biennial workplan authored by Kimberly Dibble, Charles Yackulic, Theodore Kennedy, and Phaedra Budy has been accepted for publication in Ecological Applications.
The article synthesizes biological and hydrologic data from tailwaters across the western United States, with the aim of understanding how flow management and other biological factors influence rainbow and brown trout population dynamics in regulated rivers.
Details:Summary Page

Date: March 26, 2015
Subject: NEPA and the Silencing of Native American Worldviews Environmental Practice
From: Kurt Dongoski (Via Linda Whetton)
Link: NEPA and the Silencing of Native American Worldviews Environmental Practice MARCH 2015 VERSION_17 36-45

Date: March 25, 2015
Subject: Wandering salamander baffles scientists (Lees Ferry)
From: AZ Daily Sun - GCWC and Larry Stevens
Link: AZ Daily Sun Article- LINK
Details: *Last week, volunteers doing restoration work on the banks of the Colorado River above Lees Ferry found an almost foot-long tiger salamander. The amphibians live on the Colorado Plateau above the river, but haven't been seen on the river's banks according to any known records. Larry Stevens, senior ecologist with the Grand Canyon Wildlands Council, found the animal lazing in the shallow water of a marsh bordering the Colorado River last week. “Holy cow," Stevens remembered thinking to himself. “This is an incredibly new find for the Colorado River.”