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 III. Piping Plover - R3 -1 Data Needs and Monitoring Referenee Codes
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Monitoring
Potential Sources
Possible Analysis
Reference Codes
of Current and
Methods'
Time Frame
i) Vegetation Encroachment
Data Needs- vegetation:
Plant class composition (grass,
Transects at
0 Sediment /vegetation
Pre- and post- land
forbs, woody)
Research
selected areas
affected by land
model
0 Trend analyses
management
Height
Research
management
activit ost- land
y' p
Density
Research
activities
management
• Permanent
repeated annually
transects
for 8 years
Data Needs:
Discharge
Quantity, distribution of bare
LT /PP -04
0 Records from
0 Aerial photographs
• Monitoring a
sandbars
-W&
LT /PP -05 -W
USGS gaging
r
Videography
continuing basis
as
Occurrence of thick, erosive ice
Research
stations
0 Records of timing
Sediment/vegetation
model
on river
and magnitude of
EA releases
c) Project level land management
Data Needs- channel morphology:
Transects across
Trend analyses
pre- and post- land
Water De th
p
Active channel width
LT /PP - LANDS
selected areas
0 Sediment/ vegetation
management
activit ost- land
y� p
Wetted width
LT /PP - LANDS
affected by land
model
management
Height of sandbar (cleared)
LT /PP -LANDS
management
activities -
repeated annually
Volume of sediment added
LT /PP - LANDS
upstream, through
(island leveling, channel
----------------------- - - - - --
and downstream of
widening)
treatment area
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