ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT PROFILE
PROTECTION STATUS: Endangered
YEAR PLACED ON LIST: 1994
CRITICAL HABITAT: 18 river miles of Idaho’s Kootenai River designated in 2006
RECOVERY PLAN: 1999
RANGE: Approximately 168 miles of the Kootenai River in Idaho and Montana and Kootenay Lake in British Columbia, Canada
THREATS: The operation of Libby Dam, which has altered the sturgeon’s Kootenai River habitat and removed almost all possibility of the population’s reproduction
POPULATION TREND: In decline since the mid-1960s, the Kootenai River white sturgeon population has had almost no reproduction since 1974.
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