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Show American Fisheries Society meets at Split Mountain The annual spring meeting of the Bonneville Chapter of the American Fisheries Society was held this past Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16, at Split Mountain Campground on Dinosaur National Monument. Members attending were from Utah and Colorado. The American Fisheries Society (AFS) is an international organization of over 8,000 fisheries and aquatic science professional, lay and student members. Chartered in 1870, the AFS is the world's oldest and largest scientific group dedicated to the scientific management of aquatic resources for the optimum use and enjoyment by all. Activities began Friday evening with a hamburger fry and get together. Later that evening, in the outdoor ampitheatre, Jim Lekas, project manager for Geokinetics in Vernal, gave an informative slide presentation about his company's oil shale activities in the Basin area. This was followed by an excellent slide presentation of the Mt. St. Helen's eruption given by Don Duff, Regional Aquatic Ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service. The rain held off just long enough for both presentations presen-tations to be completed. Most members camped out and stayed dry in tents or campers that night. On Saturday morning, everyone moved under cover to the Dinosaur Quarry shuttle service building since it was raining. There breakfast was cooked and served followed by- a business meeting conducted by President Bill Geer. Major items covered in the meeting included handing han-ding out the transactions, a chapter publication of aquatic resource reports given at the annual winter meeting, a discussion of Utah Power and Light Company's application to appropriate water from four Uinta Mountain trout streams for low level hydro-power plants, which could dry up 13 miles of streams, changes in the chapter bylaws, by-laws, and proposed federal budget cuts which could result in the elimination of the Cooperative Fishery Units (State-Federal-University) . In the afternoon, various field trips were available for members, including a tour of Jones Hole National Fish Hatchery, a tour of the Dinosaur Quarry, and a tour of the Geokinetics facility south of Vernal. The next get-together for the chapter will be the annual winter meeting to be held in Salt Lake City next February. |