The main species that we've worked with is white sturgeon, Acipenser transmontanus, in the Columbia Basin. We've been working with this species really since the early 1990s. We actually discovered that there was a recruitment failure going on in the course of doing some studies for capital planning work. We expanded on life history work through the 1990s. We initiated and negotiated a recovery planning process in 2000 that led to a recovery plan in 2002. At that point in time, we started initiating fairly heavy support for the life history studies and conservation culture work that was going on the species prior to our water use plan process, which began in about 2002 or 2003.
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