DOI Youth Initiative Develops Valuable Conservation Skills for Young People Working on LCR MSCP Projects
In the spring of 2010, the Department of the Interior announced that the Bureau of Reclamation would fund a $1.1 million youth initiative to provide opportunities to America’s young people to participate in various conservation projects throughout the western United States.
LCR MSCP biologists’ efforts rewarded with sightings of vermilion flycatchers, gilded flickers on lower Colorado River
Flashes of brilliant red, the sound of snapping bills, and the aerial displays of exquisite flycatching – these are the indicators biologists have anticipated.
Goal Exceeded in Annual Lake Mohave Larval Razorback Sucker Collection
What started out as pioneering work initiated by a small group of fisheries biologists known as the Native Fish Work Group (NFWG) has now become the cornerstone of the Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program’s (LCR MSCP) Fish Augmentation Plan