• The official archive: now available on Reclamation's Website HERE; post 1997.
• AMWG Archive: Meetings of Adaptive Management Working Group (AMWG), and since September of 1997, are available HERE
• TWG Archive: Metings of the Technical Working Group (TWG), and since May of 1996, are available HERE

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DOCUMENT ARCHIVE BY ON THE COLORADO RIVER (OTC)
GLEN CANYON DAM ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

Article explaining this archive

AMP Documents 1999 to Present (AMP II)

AMP CORE DOCUMENTS (Archive)

• 1992 - Grand Canyon Protection Act
• 1994 - Biological Opinion
• 1995 - Reclamation response to BiOp
• 1995 - Environmental Impact Statement
• 1996 - Record of Decision

Charter

• 1996 AMP Charter
• 2006 AMP Charter
• 2008 AMP Charter

• 1996 - Guidelines of Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (USGS)
• 2000 - Protocols of Science Advisors 
• 1999 Draft SCORE Report 
• 2005 - SCORE Report

Annual Reports

• 1997 - Federal Register Notice for Annual Reports to Congress
• 1998 - First Draft Annual Report
• 2002 - First Annual Report
• 2010 - Second Annual Report

Strategic Plan

• 2001 - Strategic Plan with Appendices 

Desired Future Conditions

• 1996 - Objectives  
• 2010 - Desired Future Conditions
• 2011 - Desired Future Conditions
• 2012 - Desired  Future Conditions

REVIEWS BY NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

• 1990 - Colorado River ecology and dam management
• 1991 - Colorado River Reservoir Operations
• 1994 - Review: Glen Canyon Dam long-term monitoring plan
• 1996 - Review: River Resource Management in the Grand Canyon
• 1999 - Review: Glen Canyon Dam adaptive management program

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• 1996 - The Colorado River Workshop. Grand Canyon Trust.
• Recommendations to the Secretary of Interior (combined)
• 2009 - Supplemental Biological Opinion
• Adaptive Management Reviews: Susskind; Camacho; Fellers; Fellers Powerpoint; Lenard; Benenati; Moir;

Acronym interpretation

Adaptive Management Program Website. Reclamation.

Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center. US Geological Survey

2010 - US Geological Survey Publications & here (October 2010) 

2010 - Secretarial Order #3305 (Scientific Integrity)

2011 - Analysis of the 2000 low steady flow. Ralston.

DOCUMENTS OF THE TRANSISTION WORK GROUP

• In time, Transition Work Group will be replaced by the Adaptive Management Work Group and the Technical Work Group
• Summary of the Transition Work Group

Year 1995

• Part one
• Part two
• Part three
• Part four

Year 1996

• Part one
• Part two
• Part three
• Part four
• Part five
• Part six
• Part seven

Year 1997

January

• Meeting minutes

February

• 01: Attendance
• 02: Long-term M&R strategic plan 01
• 03: Long-term M&R strategic plan 02
• 04; Lake Powell water quality
• 05: Review of sufficient progress
• 06: Summary of 1996 experimental flood
• List of attachments
• Meeting agenda
• Minutes

March

• Cover letter
• Notes

AMP DOCUMENTS LISTED BY YEAR (color-coded by work group)

• (AMWG) Adaptive Management Work Group
• (TWG) Technical Work Group

1997 - September 10 (AMWG)

• Link to AMWG website
• Agenda
• Attachments
• 01: AMWG charter (filed February 4, 1997)
• 02: List of attendees
• 03: Regulation of federal advisory groups
• 04: Federal Register Notice
• 05: Agenda and sample of operating procedures
• 06: Flow chart of coordination with AOP and annual report under GCPA
• 07: Draft annual report to Congress outline
• 08: AOP work group scenarios for 1998 plan of operation
• 09: Reclamation's budget justification for FY98 budget
• 10: Temperature control device update
• Minutes

1997 - October (TWG)

• 01: Agenda
• 02: TWG procedure
• 03: 1996-97 report to Congress
• Final minutes
• List of attachments

1997 - November (TWG)

• Agenda
• 01: Minutes
• 02: TWG members
• 03a is missing
• 03b: Program Formulation Process
• 04a: Roles, Responsibilities, Schedules & Integration
• 04b: Figure 1
• 04c: Implementing AMP process
• 05a: ESA reinitiation of consultation
• 05b: Implementation of biological opinion
• 05c: Other work regarding BO
• 05d: Federal Register June 3, 1986
• 05e: Biological assessment of 1996 BHBF
• 05f: Categorical Exclusion Checklist
• 05g: Review of sufficient progress
• 05h: 1995 Final Biological Opinion
• 05i: Reclamation's response to 1995 BO
• 05j: Biological opinion of 1996 BHBF
• 05k: Reclamation's response to review of sufficient progress
• 05l: November 1997 test flow from GCD
• 06: Incorporation of long-term climate variability
• 07: Dam release issues for further study
• 08: Report of spike flow subgroup
• 08a: Table
• 09: Potential spring 1998 experimental flow
• 09a: Matrix table
• 10a: Schedule for FY98 program
• 10b: GCMRC targets
• 10c: GCRMC FY98 biological resources program
• 10d: Draft FY97 report to Congress
• 10e: Draft 1998 annual plan of operations
• 11a: The state of natural and cultural resources
• 11b: The state of resources draft outline
• 12: Draft FY99 annual monitoring and research plan
• 13a: Outline of chapter 3 FY99 monitoring and research
• 13b: FY99 conceptual modeling activities
• 14: Information technology program
• 15: Meeting agenda
• Final minutes
• List of attachments
• Web site for meeting

1997 - December (TWG)

• Agenda
• 01: November 1997 minutes
• 02: TWG operating procedures
• 03a: Report of NEPA/ESA issues to TWG
• 03b: 2nd report of NEPA/ESA issue to TWG
• 03c: Recommendations to TWG for expediting compliance
• 04: Proposed program estimates
• 05: Program schematic
• 06: The state of natural and cultural resources
• 07: Draft FY 97 report to Congress
• 08: Draft discussion of science advisory board
• 09: Draft GCD release issues for further study
• 10: Executive summary BHBF triggering criteria
• 11: Effects on resources from 45,000 cfs releases from GCD
• 12: AMWG/TWG home page
• Bruce Moore notes
• Final minutes
• GCMRC FY98-99 biological resources program
• List of attachments
• Web site for meeting

1998 - January 15 (AMWG)

• Link to AWMG website
• January 1998 minutes
• Budget and process
• Report: ESA/NEPA subgroup
• Improve coordination
• Letter from TWG to AMWG
• Agenda
• 01: Attendees
• 03: NEPA review
• 04: NEPA, ESA, and NHPA compliance
• 06: Hydrology report
• 205: Impacts of Nov. 1997 31,000 cfs test flow
• 206b: GCD releases
• 206c: BHBF triggering criteria
• 206d: 1999 AOP.
• 207a: Draft plan for BHBF in 1998
• 207b: Guidelines for BHBF
• 207c: Compliance timetable for BHBF
• 208: AOP meeting schedule
• 209a: Needs for channel mapping
• 209b: Channel mapping efforts
• 209c: Channel mapping pilot studies
• 210: Assessment of water quality from GCD operations
• 211: Draft report to Congress
• 212: Draft annual monitoring and research plan
• Web site for meeting
• List of attachments

1998 - January (TWG)

• Agenda
• Attachments
• January 1998 Final Minutes
• Email Msgs
• 01: Draft research and monitoring plan for BHBF
• 202: AMP roles, responsibilities, schedules & integrgration
• 203a: Estimated effects of 45,000 cfs release
• 203b: Figures associated with effects matrix
• 203c: Prolems and conserns
• 203d: Recommendations
• 203e: Draft research and monitoring for a BHBF
• 204a: Impacts of November 1997 31,000 cfs test flow
• 204b: Broken link
• 204c: Climate and the Colorado River: The limits of management
• 205a: General planning guidelines for BHBF
• 205b: BHBF compliance timetable
• 205c: Section 7 and NEPA compliance
• 205d: GCMRC contingency monitoring program for BHBF
• 206: Revised discussion paper science advisory board
• 207: WAPA's Email for concern of spike flow
• 208: The endangered Kanab ambersnail studies and actions
• 209a: FY98 technology upgrades for channel mapping
• 209b: FY99 pilot studies of Lidar mapping
• 209c: FY2000 channel mapping Lidar and multi-beam
• Attachments
• January 1998 final minutes
• List of attachments

1998 - February (TWG)

• Draft agenda
• Attachment.html
• Revised discussion paper of science advisory board
• Hydrology report
• GCD Temperature Control proposed environmental assessment
• Agenda
• Agenda
• 200: Minutes of January 1998
• 201: Minutes of January 1998
• 02: Sponsored projects for year 1998
• 03: Proposed program cost estimates
• 04: GCD spillway gate extensions analysis
• 05: Scoping of impacts of temperature control
• 06: Draft outline for state of natural and cultural resources
• 07: Management objectives ad hoc group
• 08: Analysis of monthly release volumes to a BHBF
• 09: Data from gaging stations for BHBF
• 10: Revised discussion paper science advisory board
• 11: Comparison of BHBF & HMF and sediment conservation flows
• February 1998 final minutes
• List of attachments.doc
• List of attachments.pdf
• Meeting notice

1998 - March (TWG)

• Cover Letter
• Estimated Effect of 45,000 cfs spike flow
• Meeting html
• 01: February 1998 TWG minutes
• 02: Proposed program estimates
• 02a: Program organization chart
• 03: Management objectives
• 04: Water quality resources in Lake Powell
• 05: State of natural and cultural resources outline
• 06: Discussion paper of science advisory board
• 07; Memo on effects matrix and resource criteria
• 08: Draft GCMRC contingency plan unanticipated high flows
• 09: Presetation of trust responsibilities to the tribes
• 10: Integration of programatic agreement with tribes
• 11: Programatic agreement funding activity
• 12a: Snow conditions
• 12b: River forecast
• 12c: GCD releases
• 13: Presentations for upcoming TWG meeting
• 14: Possible effects of a temperature control device
• Final minutes
• List of attachments.doc
• List of attachments.pdf

1998 - April (TWG)

• Agenda
• 01: March 1998 proposed program estimate
• 01a: Draft research and monitoring plan BHBF
• 01: Proposed program estimates
• 02: Management objectives
• 03: Fax on science advisory board approach
• 04: Effects matrix process and assumptions
• 05: Proposed research responses of BHBF
• 06: Snow conditions
• 07: Section 7 consultation and AMP
• 08: General planning guidelines for BHBF
• 09: Tour of GCD and river trip to Lee's Ferry
• 10a: Review of GCMRC physical science progress BHBF
• 10b: Sand deposition from Little COlorado River flooding
• 10c: A model of diurnal discharge wave propagation
• 10d:Uncertainty, resource exploitation and conservation
• 10e: Colorado River: How fast does it flow?
• 10f: Modeling of sand movement asd storage
• 10g: Modifications to one-dimensional model of unsteady flow
• 10h: BHBF handouts
• 10i: Relation of graded deposits to suspended-sediment
• Federal Register Notice
• List of attachments

1998 - May (TWG)

• 03: Presentation of federal agencies and tribal responsibilities
• 06: NPS newsletter of Colorado River Management Plan
• 07: Spillway gate extensions
• 08: Proposal to develop research plan for BHBF
• List of attachments

1998 - June (TWG)

• 201: Minutes March 1998 meeting
• 202: Minutes of April 1998 meeting
• 205: Position paper for renewal of AMWG charter
• 206b: A protocol for out year program planning
• 14: Announcement from NASA about hyperspectral data
• 15a: Southwest strategy update
• 15b: Southwest Strategy Reporter
• 15c: Southwest strategy organizational structure
• 15d: Southwest strategy collaborative commuications
• 15e: Interagency memo on southwest strategy direction
• 16a: GCD releases
• 16b: Inflow forecasts
• 16c: GCD release chart
• List of attachments
• List of attachments 02
• Draft Minutes
• Final Minutes

1998 - JULY (TWG)

• List of attachments
• Final minutes
• Integration of programatic agreement

1998 - July 21 (AMWG)

• Link to AMWG web site
• Agenda
• Attach_01: Meeting web site
• Attach_07: Final discussion paper of science advisory board
• Draft_July 1998 Minutes
• Index tabs.wpd
• Memo: Status of planning documents
• List of attachments
• Transmittal Letter

1998 - September (TWG)

• 04: Proposed program estimate
• Attachments.pdf
• Final minutes

1998 - November (TWG)

• 01: Minutes of July 1998 meeting
• 02: Minutes of September 1998 meeting
• 03: FY2000-2004 budget estimate
• 04a: FY1999 cultural resources
• 04b:FY1999 socio-economic resources
• 04c: FY2000 physical resources
• 04d: FY1999 biological resources
• 05a: Protocol for out year budget planning
• 05b: Budget protocols & federal budget process
• 06: Snow conditions
• 07: Proposal for fall maintenance flows
• 08: Summary of spill avoidance discussions
• 09: Recent developments in Kanab ambersnail
• 10: AGFD monitoring of Kanab ambersnails
• 11: Index to compliance report
• 12: Draft state of natural and cultural resources
• 13: WAPA executive summary replacement resources process
• 14: Integration of programatic agreement discussion paper
• 15: Lake Powell monitoring and research program
• 16: Adopt a beach program
• Final minutes
• List of attachments.pdf

1998 - December (TWG)

• 1997 TWG operating procedures
• 01: November 1998 minutes
• 02: Lake Powell monitoring and research program
• 03: Snow conditions
• 04: Draft research plan response for alternative BHBF
• 05: BHBF resource criteria analysis
• 06: Resource category aquatic resources
• 07: Draft report BHBF resource criteria
• 08: Draft state of natural and cultural resources
• 09: Kanab ambersanil workshop
• 10: Symposium on FY 1998 science results
• Final minutes
• List of attachments

1999 - January 11 (TWG)

• Link to official TWG web site (still broken)
• 01a: Draft report on BHBF process
• 01b: Draft report on resource criteria analysis
• 03: Comments on Moody/Cook proposal
• Final minutes January 11, 1999 meeting
• Final minutes of January 13, 1999 meeting

Continued at AMP Part II