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Summary
of Monitoring Findings for Fiscal Year 2002
Introduction
The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
(LTRMP), a component of the Environmental Management Program for the Upper
Mississippi River System (UMRS), is administered by the U.S. Geological
Survey’s Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (UMESC) 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. Information on important ecosystem components,
including water quality, fish, vegetation, and macroinvertebrates are
obtained annually using standardized procedures. Other data such as land
cover/land use and bathymetry are gathered and analyzed periodically.
Monitoring activities focus primarily on six study areas: Navigation Pools
4, 8, 13, and 26 and the Open River Reach on the Mississippi River and
the 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/data_library.html.
This report summarizes activities, results, and highlights from the LTRMP
during 2002 for hydrology, sedimentation, bathymetry, land cover/land
use, water quality, fish, vegetation, and macroinvertebrates.
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