July 2000 Meeting Minutes

SDAFS Reservoir Committee

Minutes of the Reservoir Committee
Summer Meeting
Little Rock, Arkansas
July 11-12, 2000

	Financial Report
	Newsletter Editor Report
	Old Business
	New Business
	Work Session
	July 12 Stuff

Meeting Convened July 11, 2000

Chairman Mike Allen called the meeting to order at 8:45 am. It was determined that a quorum was present. The minutes of the last meeting were reviewed. Motion to approve by Colvin 2^nd by Gilliland. Motion passed. Members present:

	Scott Hendricks
	Gene Gilliland
	Mike Colvin
	Mark Oliver
	Mark Webb
	Fred Janssen
	Rick Ott
	Fred Heitman
	Mike Allen
	Chris Horton

Fred Heitman agreed to take minutes of the meeting.

Financial Report:

Financial report was presented by Mike Allen. We have $45,907 in our mutual fund account and $2468 in the checking account. We have received a return this year on our mutual funds of +3.24%. This rate of return was discussed. Motion to approve by Heitman 2^nd by Colvin. Motion passed.

Newsletter Editor Report:

Newsletter report by Jansen. He asked that with such a large committee who is the contact in each state and organization? Mike Allen will send an e mail to all committee members to determine the answer and to see who wants to be on the committee. Fred will try to prepare a newsletter twice per year which will be e mailed to members and posted on the web site. Members should send info to Fred to be included in the newsletter.

Old Business:

The Black Bass Symposium (BBS) was discussed by Gilliland. It is expected to be a feature attraction at the AFS meeting next month. There will be an interactive session for anglers. Motion by Allen 2^nd by Gilliland to donate $1000 to the BBS. Motion passed.

Gilliland reported that we will have one Jenkins Scholarship available at the midyear meeting. He asked that members pass the word for applicants to get their materials in early.

New Business:

Allen mentioned the dam removal symposium planned for the mid year meeting. Removing dams was not thought to be good for this committee.

Gilliland discussed the National Bass Grass Alliance. This new organization was founded recently to protect anglers rights with regard to plants, fish and plant removal interactions. They are planning a national meeting at some point in the future and requested that the committee provide some funding. A motion to table action until meeting specifics were developed was made by Heitman and 2^nd by Janssen. Motion passed.

Work Session:

Habitat Manual

The abiotic manual is now posted on the Reservoir Committee web page. Allen will get Kim to create a pdf file of the document and put in page numbers and an index. Committee members are urged to review the site and get comments to Allen by August 31. Allen will beef up the literature review. In general, the abiotic manual is a great step forward and should be useful to professionals and non-professionals alike.

Aquatic plants – There was much discussion of where we go with the information we have gathered to date. It was concluded that Webb and Jansen would work with Mike Smart to develop an interactive page for the web site. This would be done by the midyear meeting. This page would allow simple queries that could direct a user to a group of plants that might be useful given the conditions of their situation.

It was decided that there would be no committee meeting at the SE this year.

Meeting was adjourned for the day at 4:00pm.

We adjourned for the day. That evening committee members were treated to deep fried turkey prepared by our host Mark Oliver. It was GREAT.

July 12, 2000

Allen called the meeting to order at 9:00. We discussed whether we wanted to do a habitat field project. Considerable discussion followed. It was concluded that we did not have sufficient information, at this time, to determine what questions we wanted to answer with this type project. Colvin asked the question how do reservoir fish populations change as reservoirs age. It determined that we might want to look at some long term data sets of reservoir fisheries to see how fish populations change over extended periods of time. Oliver and Heitman volunteered to look into this and report back at the mid year meeting.

The plant database was discussed. Suggestions were made as to how to structure the information and what outputs would be appropriate. Webb and Jansen took all of this under advisement and will report back in February.

Round table discussions followed.

Motion to adjourn by Heitman was seconded by all present. Motion passed.