Ninety-six animals have been released in Colorado since the first release on Feb. 3, 1999 under 5 release protocols, which were sequential adaptations that were successful in improving the survival of released animals. Future plans for the next calendar year include initiate a state recovery plan process for Canada lynx and initiate a snowshoe hare ecology study.

Assist in the protection, conservation, and management of Colorado's aquatic animal resources through the monitoring, investigation, and management of aquatic animal health in state fish hatcheries, research facilities, free-ranging public fisheries and free-ranging aquatic animal populations, as well as aquatic animal resources in the private sector by providing diagnostics, research, regulated pathogen inspections, and laboratory analysis. Maintaining...

There are four endangered fish species in the Upper Colorado River: the bonytail chub, the Colorado squawfish, the humpback chub, and the razorback sucker. Habitat management is one of five elements of the Recovery Implementation Program for Endangered Fish Species in the Upper Colorado River Basin which is a cooperative effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the states of Colorado, Wyoming, and Utah, and water...

This report represents the CDOW sponsored boreal toad research done in 2003 by several researchers, and has been consolidated into a single document to make this information available to members of the Boreal Toad Recovery Team and other interested parties.