The federal government is spending millions of dollars in Colorado to save endangered fish that, according to one organization, it's allowing to dwindle in the Grand Canyon. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation is embarking on a two-year process of putting together an environmental impact statement for a long-term experimental plan for operations of Glen Canyon Dam. The idea is to balance the operations of the dam with a multitude of needs, including the requirements of Colorado and other Upper Colorado River Basin states to deliver set amounts of water to the lower-basin states, the need for electircal generation, and the scenic needs of the Grand Canyon, as well as those of its fish...The razorback and humpback, as well as the Colorado pikeminnow and bonytail chub, are the species targeted for recovery in the management of the Colorado River and its tributaries through Colorado, including the Grand Valley, and Utah.

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