Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
Preface
The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP) was authorized under the Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (Public Law 99-662) as an element of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Management Program. The LTRMP is being implemented by the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, a U.S. Geological Survey science center, in cooperation with the five Upper Mississippi River System (UMRS) States of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provides guidance and has overall Program responsibility. The mode of operation and respective roles of the agencies are outlined in a 1988 Memorandum of Agreement.
The UMRS encompasses the commercially navigable reaches of the Upper Mississippi River, as well as the Illinois River and navigable portions of the Kaskaskia, Black, St. Croix, and Minnesota Rivers. Congress has declared the UMRS to be both a nationally significant ecosystem and a nationally significant commercial navigation system. The mission of the LTRMP is to provide decision makers with information for maintaining the UMRS as a sustainable large river ecosystem, given its multiuse character. The long-term goals of the Program are to understand the system, determine resource trends and effects, develop management alternatives, manage information, and develop useful products.
This report presents the results of aquatic vegetation stratified random sampling surveys conducted by field station personnel under the direction of the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center. Pools 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 26 of the Upper Mississippi River and Alton and La Grange Pools of the Illinois River were surveyed. This document satisfies Task 2.2.4.6, Evaluate and Summarize Annual Present-day Results under Goal 2, Monitor Resource Change of the Operating Plan (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 1993). The purpose of this report is to provide a summary of data regarding the distribution and abundance of submersed and floating–leaf vegetation collected from the field stations. This document was developed with funding provided by the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program.
Suggested citation:
Yin Y., H. A. Langrehr, T. Blackburn, M. Moore, R. Cosgriff, and T. Cook. 2003. 2002 Annual Status Report: Submersed and rooted floating–leaf vegetation in Pools 4, 5, 7, 8, 12, 13, and 26 of the Upper Mississippi River, and Alton and La Grange Pools of the Illinois River. U.S. Geological Survey, Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, La Crosse, Wisconsin. An LTRMP Web-based report available online at http://www.umesc.usgs.gov/reports_publications/ltrmp/2002/vegetation-srs.html. (Accessed January 2003.)
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