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Online Publication Date: 14 Nov 2014

The American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists as an Advocacy Group: The Green River Poisoning of 1962

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Page Range: 577 – 591
DOI: 10.1643/OT-14-114
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Copyright: 2014 by the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
Fig. 1.
Fig. 1.

Four now endangered species found in the surveys of the Green River prior to the 1962 rotenone treatment. (A) Humpback Chub (Gila cypha), (B) Bonytail (G. elegans), (C) Razorback Sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), and (D) Colorado River Pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius). Ilustrations by Joseph Tomelleri, and used by permission.

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Fig. 2.

Robert R. Miller (left) and Carl L. Hubbs (right) at a Desert Fishes Council meeting, November, 1973.

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Fig. 3.

(A) George A. Moore (photo courtesy of the USNM/Smithsonian Institution Division of Fishes), (B) James A. Peters (photo courtesy of the USNM/Smithsonian Institution Division of Amphibians and Reptiles), (C) Robert W. Harrington, Jr. (photo courtesy of the USNM/Smithsonian Institution Division of Fishes), and (D) Roger Conant (photo courtesy of Kraig Adler).

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Fig. 4.

Rachel Carson in the tidepools on Southport Island, Maine, in the early 1960s (photo by Stanley Freeman, courtesy of Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives, Connecticut College, and used with permission of Mr. Stan Freeman, Jr.).

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Fig. 5.

Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969). Official Administration photograph in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston (Public Domain).

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