Arizona Wildlife Conservation Strategy

Yeager Canyon - East Clear Creek to Headwaters COA

Yeager Canyon is managed as a native fish, self-sustaining stream for Little Colorado spinedace. No other fish species are present in the stream. In 2002, during an extremely dry year, Yeager Canyon went dry and the Little Colorado spinedace population was lost. Spinedace from the Leonard Canyon complex were restocked in the stream and there is now a self-sustaining population. Yeager Canyon has relatively easy access and a large population of Little Colorado spinedace. It has been used as a donor stream for many of the Little Colorado spinedace supplemental stockings in the Clear Creek Drainage.

Watershed

Little Colorado River

Map

Conservation Potential

High

Management Priority

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

Primary Strategy Species

Fish

Little Colorado Spinedace

Secondary Strategy Species