Arizona Wildlife Conservation Strategy

Bear Canyon Complex (East Clear Creek Drainage) COA

The Bear Canyon Complex is managed for self-sustaining native fish populations. It currently supports a population of Little Colorado spinedace, along with speckled dace, bluehead sucker, and Little Colorado sucker in its upper reaches. The donor population for the spinedace was the Leonard Canyon Complex.

Watershed

Little Colorado River

Map

Conservation Potential

High

Management Priority

Native Aquatic Species Management (Native Fish-Self-sustaining)

Primary Strategy Species

Fish

Bluehead Sucker, Little Colorado Spinedace, Little Colorado Sucker, Speckled Dace

Secondary Strategy Species