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The Rio GrandeTRANSCRIPT
Restoring the Rio Grande
Rio Grande:Lifeline for over 500 vertebrate species
• 95 mammals • 345 birds• 95 amphibians
and reptiles • 44 native fish
Photo: Ken Stinnett
Elephant Butte Dam 1916
The status of native fish in the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and west Texas:
Gone (16):• shovelnose
sturgeon • American
eel • Mexican
tetra • speckled
chub • flathead
chub • Rio Grande
chub • Rio Grande silvery minnow• Rio Grande
shiner • Rio Grande bluntnose shiner• phantom
shiner
• roundnose
Present (8):• gizzard shad • red shiner • river carpsucker • bluegill • mosquitofish • flathead catfish • smallmouth buffalo?• headwater catfish?
Rio Grande Campaign
Goal: to restore the Rio Grande in southern New Mexico and west Texas to a functioning ecosystem which supports native plants and animals
Shovelnose sturgeon beaverRio Grande leopard frog
Yellow-billed cuckoo
Picacho Wetlands
Before Now
La Mancha Project Design
• Two connected ponds on 3 acres of privately owned land
• Inlet and outlet channels connecting to river at high flows
• Appropriate native plantings in floodway and around ponds
• Trail, signs and bench
A Living River
Photo: Ken Stinnett