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<br />Table 1. Site Evaluation Matrix for Potential Beaver Transplants Sites. <br /> <br />Candidate Drainage: <br /> <br />BEAVER TRANSPLANT COMPATIBILITY MATRIX <br /> <br />Ranger District: <br /> <br />Adverse <br /> <br />No Change <br /> <br />Positive <br /> <br />Narrative <br />Evaluation <br /> <br />Roads <br /> <br />NIA <br /> <br />Recreation <br /> <br />Adjacent <br />Landowners <br /> <br />Grazing <br /> <br />Riparian <br /> <br />Fisheries <br /> <br />wildlife <br /> <br />Channel <br /> <br />Road or <br />stream cross- <br />ing problems <br />likely. <br /> <br />Significant <br />landowner ad- <br />verse reaction <br />likely. <br /> <br />Net fisheries <br />values <br />adversely <br />affected. <br /> <br />Net wildlife <br />values <br />adversely <br />affected. <br /> <br />No road <br />problems anti- <br />cipated. <br /> <br />Drainage wlo <br />significant <br />recreation <br />potential. <br /> <br />Minor land- <br />owner problems <br />possible. <br /> <br />No grazing allot- <br />ment. <br /> <br />Riparian condi- <br />tion presently <br />near optimum. <br /> <br />NO net change <br />likely. <br /> <br />No net change <br />likely. <br /> <br />Channels stable- <br />no change likely. <br /> <br />LITERATURE CITED <br /> <br />Significant <br />recreation pre- <br />sent or likely <br />in near future. <br /> <br />No landowner <br />reaction anti- <br />cipated <br /> <br />Within grazing <br />allotment. <br /> <br />Riparian re- <br />storation poss- <br />ible. <br /> <br />Positive bene- <br />fi ts to onsi tel <br />offsite <br />fisheries. <br /> <br />Positive bene- <br />fi ts to onsi tel <br />offsite wild- <br />life. <br /> <br />Positive stabi- <br />lization: <br />through vegeta- <br />tion changes. <br /> <br />Adams, A. K., 1953. Some physio-chemical effects of beaver dams on Michi- <br />gan trout streams in the Watersmeet Area. Unpubl. Doctoral Diss., <br />Univ. of Mich., Ann Arbor. 316 pp. <br /> <br />79 <br />