Submitted by Shirley Mac, Creative Cultural Center,

In co-operation with David Henderson, Editor, Colorado River Life and Havasu Connection

Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403

Public Viewing of Endangered Species of the Colorado River

Before there were bass and bluegill, there were bonytail and razorback.

Can our native fish make a comeback?

Certain endangered species get all the breaks. Pandas are the cute, sweet, roly-poly playful balls of black and white fur that everyone loves. The gorilla, tiger, rhino and snow leopard certainly are not lacking in advocate groups. But, who in the world would want to take up the cause for an endangered bottom-dwelling sucker fish?

Actually . . . . . a lot of people are.

The razorback sucker,	the bonytail chub,and	the desert pupfish,

may not  tug at out heart-strings like the winsome panda, but in our neck of the woods, they're as endangered as the South African mountain gorilla.Native to the water courses of our desert Southwest, these three species were once plentiful, but their numbers have dropped so precipitously thatthey are now , for all practical intent and purposes, extinct in the wild. Much is being done by the U.S Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce this trio into theColorado River.

For information about more ecological things to do in and around the Lower  Colorado River area visit the Creative Cultural Center web site: www.islandarizona.com.

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