Colorado Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

Cooperative Research Units
Education, Research And Technical Assistance For Managing Our Natural Resources

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Colorado Research Activities

Research Associate, Alissa Gigliotti, deploying rainbow trout sentinel fish cages in the White River, near Meeker, Colorado

The Unit works toward three basic objectives: research, education, and technical assistance. The Unit emphasizes research related to specific management problems where results have a high probability of being applied. The program remains flexible to reflect changing cooperators' needs. The long-term fishery effort emphasizes a diversity of applied management projects having broad statewide and regional applicability. The wildlife component of the Unit emphasizes sampling and analysis of quantitative methodologies for management. The fisheries and wildlife activities are diverse and integrated with Unit cooperators. The results of research are transferred through formal graduate teaching and technical extension.

Overall Unit direction is provided by a Coordinating Committee with representatives from the cooperators (USGS, Colorado Parks and Wildlife, Colorado State University, USFWS and the Wildlife Management Institute.) Day to day operation of the Unit is provided by Dana Winkelman, Unit Leader and two Assistant Unit Leaders: William Kendall and Mevin Hooten. These individuals are employees of USGS and have faculty appointments, teach formal graduate courses, and advise and direct graduate students and their research. Research programs are the result of efforts by Unit people in obtaining contracts or grants from federal, state, or private organizations. Most frequently, the research is done by graduate students while earning advanced degrees. Their degrees, Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy, are granted through the Department of Fish,Wildlife and Conservation Biology (formerly Fishery and Wildlife Biology).

Colorado Peer Reviewed Publications

Wolfe, B.A., B.M. Johnson, A.R. Breton, P.J. Martinez, and D.L. Winkelman. In press. Origins and movements of invasive piscivores determined from the strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) ratio of otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. | Download |

Williams, P. J., J. R. Robb, R. H. Kappler, T. E Piening, and D. R. Karns. 2012. Intraspecific density dependence in larval development of the crawfish frog, Lithobates areolatus. Herpetological Review 43:36-38. | Download |

Kendall, W. L. and C. T. Moore. 2012. Maximizing the utility of monitoring to the adaptive management of natural resources. Pages ???-??? in R. A. Gitzen, J. J. Millspaugh, A. B. Cooper, and D. S. Licht, editors. Design and analysis of long-term ecological monitoring studies. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

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Colorado Technical Publications

Schisler, G. J., and E. R. Fetherman. 2010. Salmonid Disease Studies. Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Restoration, Job Progress Report. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Fish Research Section. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Schisler, G. J., E. R. Fetherman, and P. J. Schler. 2009. Salmonid Disease Studies. Federal Aid in Fish and Wildlife Restoration, Job Progress Report. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Fish Research Section. Fort Collins, Colorado.

Schisler, G. J., and E. R. Fetherman. 2009. Resistant rainbow trout in Colorado: Current status and uses. Colorado Division of Wildlife, Aquatic Research Section Special Report. Fort Collins, Colorado. April 2009.

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Colorado Theses and Dissertations

Gerber, B., 2010. Comparing density analyses and carnivore ecology in Madagascar's southeastern rainforest. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg. | Download |

Peñaloza, C. L. 2010. Towards sustainable harvest of sideneck river turtles (Podocnemis spp.) in the Middle Orinoco, Venezuela. Dissertation. Duke University, Durham. | Download |

Clapp, Christine. 2009. Investigating competition among Myxobolus cerebralis resistant and susceptible mitochondrial lineages of Tubifex tubifex and the potential for biological control of whirling disease. Master's Thesis. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. | Download |

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