Technical Committee Monitoring Charts and Tables

• Description: Platte River Endangered Species Partnership ‎(aka Platte River Cooperative Agreement [CA]; aka Platte River Recovery Implementation Program [PRRIP])‎ Technical Advisory Committee ‎(TAC)‎ Meeting Agendas, Budgets, Protocols, Notes, etc. 2001
• State: CO
• State: NE
• State: WY
• Basin: South Platte
• Water Division: 1
• Date: 4/16/2001
• Author: Dale Strickland
• Title: Platte River Endangered Species Partnership
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Meeting

Table II. Interior Least Tern - R3 -1 Data Needs and Monitoring Reference Codes
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Monitoring
Potential Sources
Possible Analysis
Reference Code
of Current and
Methods'
Time Frame
c) Project level land management
Pre- and post- land
Data Needs channel morphology:
Transects across
0 Trend analyses
management
Water Depth
LT /PP - LANDS
selected areas
0 Sediment/ vegetation
activity; post- land
Active channel width
LT /PP - LANDS
affected by land
model
management
Wetted width
LT /PP - LANDS
management
repeated annually
Height of sandbar (cleared)
LT /PP - LANDS
activities -
Volume of sediment added
Research
upstream, through
(island leveling, channel
and downstream of
widening)
treatment area
Data Needs- sandbar /shoreline
Transects across
0 Trend analyses
pre -post land
_ vegetation:
selected areas
0 Sediment/ vegetation
management
Plant class composition (grass,
affected by land
model
activity; post- land
forbs, woody)
LT /PP -06 -W
management
management
Height
LT /PP -06 -W
activities-
repeated annually
Density
LT /PP -06 -W
upstream, through
and downstream of
treatment area
Data Needs
USGS gaging
Monitoring on an
Discharge
✓
station (nearest to
ongoing basis
treatment)
• Permanent
transects
B. Program effects on Least Terns (Species
Response) _J
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