Thank you to Melissa Trammell and Dave Speas for volunteering to be our local hosts.
Stay tuned for more information.
2024 Desert Fishes Council annual meeting is scheduled for Grand Junction, Colorado (21-23 November 2024)
2023 DFC Annual Meeting – Bishop, CA
Information on our annual meeting is up on the webpage. The 2023 Desert Fishes Council Annual Meeting will be in Bishop, CA. To submit an abstract visit the Easychair website
Early registration ends October 9.
Congratulations for DFC’s 54th Annual Meeting
Thanks to Krissy and Richard the local hosts for our 54th Annual Meeting (17-19 Nov 2022). This was the first meeting held in person and virtually!
2022 DFC Annual Meeting – extended early registration
Early registration to the 2022 Desert Fishes Annual Meeting in St. George, UT 16-19 November has been extended to 17 October 2022. After that prices double – so register soon!
See you in St. George, UT.
Submit your abstract for DFC 2022
Submission of abstract for DFC 2022 (Desert Fishes Council Annual Symposium 2022) is now open. You will have to login to EasyChair to submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dfc2022.
The deadline to submit is 1 October 2022.
2022 DFC Annual Meeting
Greetings all the 2022 annual meeting is tentatively scheduled to occur in-person 16-20 November, 2022 in St. George UT, USA.
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.
2021 Annual Meeting is almost here
Greetings all, the annual meeting is this week 17-18 of November 2021. It is virtual and the cost is only $50 per person! Don’t forget to register. There is an interactive poster session each evening with the authors. Please read their posters prior to the assigned session. The meeting program is available.
2021 DFC Annual meeting short program is now available
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