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<br />" <br /> <br />Final Report <br /> <br />April 2004 <br /> <br />Appendix A --- Glossary or Definition of Terms Used <br /> <br />Accommodate - Work together with water users and project proponents to <br />process new water development permits under the auspices of the Forest Plan <br />Revision. (see Entertain) <br /> <br />Achieve - To accomplish through management or direct actions by the Forest <br />Service. <br /> <br />Appropriate - A level of compliance that meets the prescribed needs through <br />cooperative and cost-effective methods. <br /> <br />Baseline Valoe - A component of the forest natural resources that are flow <br />dependent and are wide-spread and relatively common throughout the GMUG <br />National Forests, (e.g., willows, cottonwoods, trout, fishing, groundwater <br />recharge, wildlife and stock watering). <br /> <br />Bypass flow - An administratively required condition of use related to Forest <br />Service issued water-related, special-use permits where a volume of water <br />decreed to the user is required to remain in the stream, by-passing the point of <br />diversion. It may also apply to reservoir operations where specific releases of <br />water are required to provide for downstream flow. <br /> <br />Ecosystem - The community of plants and animals and their interrelated <br />physical environment. Generally, the focus is on larger landscape units such as a <br />mountain range, a river basin, or an entire watershed. <br /> <br />Ecosystem integrity - The complex interactions and interrelationships of the <br />components of a healthy or properly functioning ecosystem. <br /> <br />Entertain - Receive and process new water development permit applications <br />that comply with all other aspects of the Forest Plan and provide protection of <br />species of concern populations and habitats. <br /> <br />Flow-dependent - A resource or use that is directly linked to surface water flow <br />as part of its lifecycle or as a component of its overall viability. <br /> <br />Flow regimes - The cumulative effect of a stream's hydrograph where there is <br />variation in flow volumes, typically related to specific seasons of each year. <br /> <br />Flow related - An action or activity that involves some aspect of surface water <br />flow, either in volume or timing. <br /> <br />Hue - Hydrologic Unit Classification. River basins are delineated based on the <br />their composite of smaller watersheds forming the larger basin. The ordering or <br />sequence of numbering, based on this US Geological Survey-derived system, is <br /> <br />- 14- <br />