Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

Summary of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2000: Introduction
Summary of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2000

Introduction

The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS), is funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and administered by the U.S. Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (Center) in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The LTRMP supports six field stations operated by state agencies in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin (Figure 1) to collect most of the monitoring data. Data on important ecosystem components, including water quality, vegetation, macroinvertebrates, and fish, are obtained using standardized operating procedures. Monitoring activities focus primarily on six study areas: Navigation Pools 4, 8, 13, and 26; an Open River reach on the Mississippi River; and La Grange Pool on the Illinois River. Information from monitoring activities and a variety of other sources are available at the Center's Data Library Web site http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/data_library.html. This report summarizes activities, results, and highlights of the LTRMP in 2000.

Suggested citation:

Gaugush, R.F., B. S. Ickes, B. L. Johnson, J. S. Sauer, D. M. Soballe, and Y. Yin. 2006. Summary of monitoring findings for Fiscal Year 2000 Long Term Resource Monitoring Program of the Upper Mississippi River System. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Web-based report LTRMP 2006-W003 available online at www.umesc.usgs.gov/reports_publications/ltrmp/2000/summary_findings/contents.html. (Accessed October 2006.)


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