2021 Annual meeting award winners!

It is my great pleasure to announce the award winners for the 53rd Meeting of the Desert Fishes Council.  


2021 Carl and Laura Hubbs Award Winner Chad Teal You can watch his presentation on the DFC YouTube Channel here https://youtu.be/lBYkK8E3JCw


2021 Poster Award Winner Justin Waraniak  You can view his poster on the DFC website here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GIrHqs5BSTpKEgFXArjJCCnvhkMYVgJ5/view?usp=drivesdk


Thank you to Brandon Albrecht, Krissy Wilson, Ron Rogers, and Brian Hines for serving as judges this year.  Please see the attachment from Brandon with more information.

Long Valley speckled dace

From Patrick Donnelly at the Center for Biological Diversity:

Today the US Fish and Wildlife Service issued a positive 90-day finding on the Center for Biological Diversity’s petition to protect the Long Valley speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus ssp.) under the Endangered Species Act. The Service found that the petition presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that listing may be warranted. This advances the fish to a one-year review for determination as to whether or not listing under the Act is warranted.

DFC’er Steve Parmenter basically single-handedly saved the Long Valley speckled dace from extinction, scooping up a few and establishing a refugium outside of its native range before the last population at Whitmore Hot Spring likely winked out. And it’s not the only taxon of endemic desert aquatic life which might be extinct but for Parmenter’s tender care.

90-day finding in the Federal Register: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/09/29/2021-20963/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-90-day-findings-for-five-species

90-day finding petition review form: https://downloads.regulations.gov/FWS-R8-ES-2021-0065-0003/content.pdf

CBD’s 2020 petition: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/species/fish/pdfs/Death-Valley-dace-petition-6-8-20.pdf

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