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2014

Date: 12/16/2014
Subject: HFE Photos -from GCMRC Sandbar Cameras
From: Scott Vanderkooi (via Linda Whetton)
Link: 2014 HFE Sandbar- Virtual Tour

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

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."

Subject: First Gray Wolf in Grand Canyon in 75 years -Officially Confirmed
Date: 11/22/2014
News Article-LINK
Additional: News LINKS

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

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

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

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

From: Linda Whetton (USBR)
Subject: HFE 2014 Website- USBR
Date: 11/07/2014
This is to let you know the HFE website is up and running. It can be located at:
HFE Website
News Article Compilations- HFE 2014

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

Subject: Approval and Recommendation for 2014 High Flow Experiment (HFE)
Date: 10/24/2014
Details:141024 HFE approval recommendation Memo

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

LINK to Video Clip--- USBR Mussels Page

141001 Coatings for Mussel Control -USBR Report- LINK

Jennifer Gimble begins serving as Principal Assistant Secretary Designee (DOI) -Oct 2014
Additional Information

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

From: Kurt Dongoske (Pueblo of Zuni)
Date: 09/30/2014
Subject: FY2014 Annual Report- Pueblo of Zuni participation in GCDAMP
Zuni FY2014 GCDAMP Participation Annual Report

From: DOI
Date: 09/27/2014
Subject: 50 Year Anniversary of Power Generation at Glen Canyon Dam-- USBR Invite- WAPA Write-up
Recorded LIVESTREAM
140927 50 Year Power Generation- CREDA (Leslie James) talk
140927 50 Year Power Generation- DOI news release
WIKI PICTURES
Student Video: I AM GLEN CANYON

From: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society- Carl Walters-- (Via Ted Melis)
Date: Redistributed_09/26/2014-- Original release-- 02/03/2012
Subject: Bioenergetics and Population Dynamics of Flannelmouth Sucker and Bluehead Sucker in Grand Canyon as Evidenced by Tag Recapture Observations
Walters et al. TAFS 2012 Grand Canyon Sucker Assessment- redistributed-140926

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

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

From: USGS (Helen Fairley)-- Via LWhetton
Date: 08/27/2014
Subject: USGS Scientific Investigations Report, High-Resolution Topography and Geomorphology of Select Archeological Sites in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona
USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2014–5126
Details: http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20145126 http://dx.doi.org/10.3133/sir20145126]

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

From: Don Barnett
Date: 08/27/2014
Subject: Larry Walkoviak retires from the Bureau of Reclamation in September 2014
Details: 2014-57 Retirement of Larry Walkoviak - Open house Flyer

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

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

LINK: Quagga Pipe 2013-Video Clip- Courtesy of Salt River Project
Salt River Project
Subject: Animation of Quagga Mussels reeking havoc on pipes example

From: Jan Balsom (NPS)
Date: 07/23/2014
Subject: NPS Grand Canyon Video- New Waters-Episode II
Episode I NPS Grand Canyon Video- New Waters-Episode I -LINK

From: DOI (Via LWhetton)
Date: 06/18/2014
Subject: Once Thought Locally Extinct, Endangered Razorback Suckers Discovered Spawning in Grand Canyon National Park
Details: LINK

From: Irrigation Leader- Leslie James
Date: 06/13/2014
Subject: The Bottom Line: The Impact of the Endangered Species Act on Glen Canyon Dam Operations and Stakeholders
Link: 140613 April 2014- The Impact of the ESA on GC Leslie James- LINK
Details:

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.

From: USFWS
Date: 05/08/2014
Subject: Federal Agencies Propose Revised Rules to Improve Implementation of the Endangered Species Act
Details: 150509 USFWS- ESA- News Release FINAL (1) LINK

Address processes for designating and implementing critical habitat

From: USGS-GCMRC (Ted Kennedy)-- Via Marianne Crawford
Date: 05/08/2014
Subject: Citizen Science in Grand Canyon
Details: VIDEO LINK

From: DOI Anne Castle -- Via Berverly Hefferton
Date: 05/07/2014
Subject: Budget Memo from Assistant Secretary Anne Castle
Details: 140507 GCDAMP Triennial Budget and Work Plan- May 7, 2014

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

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

From: DOI
Date: Feb 2014
Subject: Grand Canyon Turns 95
Details: This Week at Interior

From: AMWG
Date: 03/21/2014
Subject: Amy Heuslein retires from the Bureau of Indian Affairs in March 2014
Details:

From: USBR
Date: 02/27/2014
Subject: Reclamation Commissioner Michael Connor Confirmed as Deputy Secretary of Interior
Details: LINK

From: LWhetton- Via AZGF
Date: 02/21/2014
Subject: Volunteer Opertunity: LCR Fish Monitoring- Hoop Net Project April 15-25 2014
Details: 140221 LCR Call for Volunteers Flyer

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

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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 *From: Scott Vanderkooi (via Linda Whetton)
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 *From:  GCMRC/ USBR (Via Linda Whetton)
 *Link: [http://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/amwg/mtgs/14aug27/Attach_06f.pdf LINK to REPORT]
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