Wyoming Game and Fish Department
Blue Crane Creek Spawning and Migration Enhancement
(PROJECT NUMBER 2003-0208-003)
NFWF & JHOF Partnership: $10,000
Local Match: $104,000
In 1921, the Game and Fish Commission was established to provide citizen
oversight to the Wyoming Game and Fish Department. The Commission is
made up of seven officials, appointed by the Governor, who each
represent a region in the state. The Commission serves as the policy
making board responsible for the direction and supervision of the
Director of the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and through the
Department provides an adequate and flexible system of control,
propagation, management and protection and regulation of all wildlife in
Wyoming.
The Jackson Hole One Fly Foundation - National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Conservation Partnership Program is supporting an ongoing
watershed project for the spring creeks of the Snake River. The WGFD is
striving with cooperators, interest groups, land managers, and
landowners to promote watershed function and ecosystem integrity by
enhancing the quality and diversity aquatic habitats in spring creek.
These areas are
 integral
to the natural recruitment of native trout for a fishery of national
importance. Currently the channels have become inundated with sediment,
widened, made shallow, and satiated with aquatic vegetation due to lack
of flushing flows. Enhancement projects will be developed to provide
sustainable spawning gravels, pools, overhead cover, and migration
routes for native Snake River Cutthroat Trout. In order to restore the
function of trout migration and spawning, the grantee plans to enhance
aquatic habitats to maximum ecological potential, improve structure and
function of spring creeks, provide sufficient spawning and migration
habitat to increase Snake River cutthroat trout populations and provide
a quality fishery for anglers within the Snake River.
Project Status:
This project was just approved and the grantees have just received their
contracts. Implementation of the project will begin shortly.
For more information, contact: Lara Sweeney,
lara.sweeney@wgf.state.wy.us,
307-733-2321.
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