To understand current stream conditions and potentially help identify opportunities for restoration projects To evaluate whether best management practices (BMPs) are effective at improving water quality or stream conditions To ultimately get streams taken off of the MDEQ impaired water bodies list Objectives of preliminary data collection initiated in the fall of 2014: To engage interested volunteers, provide an initial training and start some data collection in order to produce some momentum with data collection. To collect basic flow and sediment data which could potentially be leveraged into more advanced sediment data collection efforts in subsequent seasons. This effort will ideally involve some collection of data on Ramshorn and California Creeks which have been identified by the RWC as focus streams for initial sediment management efforts. However, the effort will also be considered successful if sediment and/or flow data are generated on other waterbodies within the Ruby watershed to get the data collection rolling. Table 1. Project Team Responsibilities Person Role Contact Info Training Responsibilities MWCC -volunteer coordination Rebecca CD Training, -landowner communication rubywatershed@gmail.com Ramsey Coordinator RST -data compilation from Training volunteers Jennifer Monitoring Data collection jenniferk@sheridan.k12.mt.us Konopacki Volunteer MSUEWQ Data collection Dave Monitoring dmcadoo@ranchresources.net Training McAdoo Volunteer 9/19/2014 Conduct trainings, assist with Adam Sigler Technical documentation, assist with and Assistance kkaylor@montana.edu data organization and Kaylor presentation
To understand current stream conditions and potentially help identify opportunities for restoration projects To evaluate whether best management practices (BMPs) are effective at improving water quality or stream conditions To ultimately get streams taken off of the MDEQ impaired water bodies list Objectives of preliminary data collection initiated in the fall of 2014: To engage interested volunteers, provide an initial training and start some data collection in order to produce some momentum with data collection. To collect basic flow and sediment data which could potentially be leveraged into more advanced sediment data collection efforts in subsequent seasons. This effort will ideally involve some collection of data on Ramshorn and California Creeks which have been identified by the RWC as focus streams for initial sediment management efforts. However, the effort will also be considered successful if sediment and/or flow data are generated on other waterbodies within the Ruby watershed to get the data collection rolling. Table 1. Project Team Responsibilities Person Role Contact Info Training Responsibilities Rebecca Ramsey CD Coordinator rubywatershed@gmail.com MWCC Training, RST Training -volunteer coordination -landowner communication -data compilation from volunteers Jennifer Konopacki Monitoring Volunteer jenniferk@sheridan.k12.mt.us Data collection Dave McAdoo Monitoring Volunteer dmcadoo@ranchresources.net MSUEWQ Training 9/19/2014 Data collection Adam Sigler and Kaylor Technical Assistance kkaylor@montana.edu Conduct trainings, assist with documentation, assist with data organization and presentation
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