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Potential Outline for the Adaptive Management Plan <br />1. iNTRODUCTION <br />I.A. Program goals <br />I.B. Program and Project Activities <br />I.C. Description of Adaptive Management process (define AM) <br />I.D. Organizational structure to implement AM on the Platte River <br />I.E. Discussion of Scale (need to manage for big picture, but this also requires <br />understanding the cause-and-effect details often observed at the site-level scale, <br />which makes for a challenging AM program) <br />II. CONCEPTUAL MODELS AND HYPOTHESES <br />II.A. Physical conceptual models <br />II.B. Priority physical hypotheses <br />II.C. Biological conceptual models <br />II.D. Priority biological hypotheses <br />III. OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS <br />III.A. Opportunities <br />III.B. Constraints <br />IV. QUANTITATIVE OBJECTIVES (or PERFORMANCE MEASURES) <br />IV.A. Physical objectives <br />IV.B. Biological objectives <br />V. PROPOSED MANAGEMENT ACTIONS <br />V.A. Flow releases <br />-Anticipated physical response <br />-Anticipated biological response <br />V.B. Physical habitat manipulation <br />-Anticipated physical response <br />-Anticipated biological response <br />VI. MONITORING AND SAMPLING STRATEGY <br />VI.A. Discussion of Scale issues <br />VI.B. Discussion of "ability to measure ecosystem response" <br />VI.C. Discussion of Monitoring versus Reseaxch, and how they must be integrated <br />VI.D. Physical Processes monitoring strategy <br />-Reach scale <br />-River-wide scale <br />-Use of the baseline <br />VI.E. Biological monitoring strategy (go through different target species) <br />-Reach scale <br />-River-wide scale <br />-Use of the baseline <br />-integration with physical processes <br />VII. MONITORING AND RESEARCH DATA STORAGE <br />VIII. ESTIMATED BUDGET <br />IX. LITERATURE CITED