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Written by ncclass
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Friday, 21 November 2008 |
BRWA's Culvert Program Monitoring
The influence of road stream crossings on fish populations and stream habitats has received increased attention over recent years. Many agencies in our area are involved in fish friendly culvert replacements to ameliorate the negative impacts of road crossings. Local partners have replaced or remediated many culverts at road crossings over the last five years. These installations intend to benefit fish species and their habitats; however limited monitoring has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of these installations both at a specific project site and on an overall watershed basis.
In response, the Bad River Watershed Association and the Ashland Fish and Wildlife Conservation Office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service hosted a monitoring workshop on December 16-17, 2008. The purpose of this workshop iwas to develop a monitoring program and to draft monitoring protocols that will evaluate how well restoration work in the BRW is achieving program objectives.
At the workshop, participants divided into one of two break-out groups that had either a fisheries or geomorphic focus. The purpose of these break-out sessions was for participants to identify the appropriate parameters for our Monitoring Program in their respective area of expertise. First, participants reviewed and modified (as needed) the questions and suggested spatial scales for each objective. Then participants considered watershed position (clay plain in the lower reaches, steep erodible transition zone, or upper watershed) to identify appropriate parameters for each monitoring question.
The agenda for our workshop can be found here: culvert_agenda
A summary of the Culvert program objectives, monitoring questions, and suggested spatial scales can be found here: brw_monitoring_goals_objectives
Some of the presentations at the conference are posted below, others will be posted soon.
Bad River Watershed Association Culvert Program
Michele Wheeler
Executive Director
Bad River Watershed Association
wheeler.overview.web
Effects of geomorphic setting and land-use history on fluvial processes at road crossings Bad River Watershed
Faith Fitzpatrick
USGS Wisconsin Water Science Center
fitzpatrick.geomorphic.setting.1
fitzpatrick.geomorphic.setting.2
fitzpatrick.geomorphic.setting.3
fitzpatrick.geomorphic.setting.4
Stop and look: Sea lamprey barriers and monitoring on the Bad River
Lisa Walter
Larval Assessment Biologist
USFWS Sea Lamprey Control Program
walter.lamprey.usfws.web
Monitoring AOP at different scales
Mark Fedora
The Natural Conservancy, US Forest Service
fedora.monitoring.scales.usfs
Monitoring Culvert Replacement for Fish Passage Efficacy
Ted Koehler
Ashland National Fish and WIldlife Conservation Office
koehler.fish.passage
Assessment and Monitoring
Cordell Manz
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Ted Koehler
Ashland National Fish and WIldlife Conservation Office
koehler.fish.passage
Assessment and Monitoring
Cordell Manz
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Oral presentation
White River Fishery Monitoring
Scott Toshner
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
presentation coming soon
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Culvert Program 
