First annual report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program


U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.  1989.  First annual report of the
Long Term Resource Monitoring Program for the Upper Mississippi
River System.  Environmental Management Technical Center,
Onalaska, Wisconsin, January 1989.  EMTC 89-02.  130 pp.  (NTIS #
PB91 174102)


ABSTRACT

The first Annual Report of the Long Term Resource Monitoring
Program for the Upper Mississippi River System covers the period
from September, 1986 through January 1989.  The report includes: 
program activities information concerning cooperation between
member states and agencies; a summary of the past year's data
collection effort for water quality; deviations from the Operating
Plan; critical paths and funding requirements through 1999; plans
for the coming year, and; management of the Environmental
Management Technical Center.  Technical Center Staff are divided
between Ecology and the Computerized River Information Center. 
Ecology is responsible for the analysis of significant resource
problems and for long term resource monitoring of the Upper
Mississippi River System.  The Computerized River Information
Center is responsible for supplying the necessary computer
hardware and software for geographical information systems, data
base management, modeling and statistical analysis.


KEYWORDS

Mississippi River, Environmental Management Program, Upper
Mississippi River System, Long Term Resource Monitoring Program,
River Management