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IMRP Table 2. Identified protocols/activities and draft estimated budget for monitoring and research <br />Ref. <br />R3-1 Minimum Data Needs being <br />Hypotheses <br />No. Protocol/Activity Description, Responsible Party, and Schedule addressed 13 year Budget Addressed <br /> Geomorpholo and Ve etation " <br /> Monitoring the channel Description: Annual geomorpholocal (including flows) monitoring thr hout 1) Channel width, depth, vegetation, <br /> geomorphology of the the study area (system level monitoring) and more intensly on Program lands erosion/deposition trends, bed <br /> Central Platte River valley (Program level monitoring). Responsible Party: Program. Schedule: elevation, grain size, discharge, and <br /> Monitoring will be conducted annual once the Program begins. sandbar quantity, distribution, and <br /> sandbar elevation, mid-channel. <br />? $650,000 <br /> Monitoring the vegetation of Description: Annual vegetation monitoring throghout the study area (system 1) Wet meadow quantity, distribution, <br /> the central Platte River Valley level monitoring) and more intensly on Program lands (Program level and quality. 2) Wet meadow proximity <br /> monitoring), focusing on out-of channel areas. Responsible Party: Program. to roosting habitat, and isolation. <br /> Schedule: Monitoring will be conducted annual once the Program begins. <br />2 $650,000 <br /> Ev luate sediment erosion, Description: This study will obtain data on the hydraulic and sediment <br /> trapport, and deposition transport processes, especially the deposition and erosion along the river bed <br /> processes and banks, and the formation of bedforms, bars, and islands within the overall <br /> channel. The data will be analyzed using physical principals to develop an <br /> understanding of the sediment deposition and erosion processes acting on the <br /> ? river, with special emphasis on the habitat characteristics of open-view width <br /> _ an san?ar demensions. Responsible Party: Program. Schedule: <br /> Research will begin once necessary lands are available and specific protocols <br />3 can bewritten. $1,705,440 <br /> Evaluate in-channel vegetation Description: The vegetation dynamics study focuses primarily on developing <br /> dynamics an understanding of the processes of interaction between flow, sediment <br /> transport, and vegetation. To develop this understanding, an extension of <br /> existing vegetation demography investigation is included, along with <br /> investigations of the specific interaction between flow, sediment transport, and <br /> vegetation at locations where vegetation plots on the river would be <br /> established. Because of the inherent uncertainties and non-idealized <br /> conditions that exist when collecting data in the field, a laboratory component <br /> of data collection has been included. Further description provided in the <br /> Parsons/EIS Team report. Responsible Party: Program. Schedule: <br /> Research will begin once necessary lands are available and specific protocols <br />4 are written. $1,656,000