Download or read book Montana Reference Streams Project written by Daniel L. McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Benchmark Biology of Montana Reference Streams written by Loren L. Bahls and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metadata Analysis of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality s Reference Stream Project Datasets written by Jonathan Samuel Leiman and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Master's Thesis examines certain aspects of the frequently incongruous relationship in the State of Montana between the natural science of water quality measurement and the actual practices to which water quality management research is put. These discordances can be the source of misunderstandings about the purposes and uses for which data were collected. Moreover, miscues regarding the sharing of information among stakeholders have become more significant as adaptive and shared management programs continue to expand. At the core of this study are assessments of the value of water quality data generated by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and surveys of some of the potential consumers of water quality data generated by the Montana DEQ. Datasets examined are part of an ongoing project at the Montana DEQ known as the "Reference Stream Project." Research was framed using two basic questions: (1) Are Reference Stream Project data supported by an appropriate metadata framework?; and (2) In general, are water quality data produced by the Montana DEQ socially and politically useful or relevant to consumers of water quality information? Question 1 is addressed using a structural analysis of existing metadata from the Reference Stream Project to infer overall reliability and usefulness of data quality for these types of water quality data. Question 2 is examined using social inquiry of water resource stakeholders who are potentially interested in water quality data, in order to evaluate the usefulness and relevance of state generated water quality data. Question 1 is the primary focus of the study. The research identified a noteworthy demand among stakeholders to collaborate and share data with each other, which can be accomplished, in part by the following steps: (1) increasing metadata structure; and, (2) encouraging joint fact finding processes to be undertaken by the greater cohort of water quality stakeholders in Montana. This study reaffirmed the need for water resource managers to be critical of how water quality data are stored and described, in order to create reliable, useful, and inclusive management processes.
Download or read book Identification and Assessment of Montana Reference Streams written by Michael Suplee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biological Criteria written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Montana Reference Streams Annual Summary written by Daniel L. McGuire and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Deerlodge National Forest N F South Beal Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dingell Johnson Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Variability in Several of Montana s Reference Streams written by Kathryn Elizabeth Makarowski and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water temperature is a physical property that fundamentally affects stream ecology and is considered an important water quality parameter from scientific and legal view points. On global, catchment and reach scales, anthropogenic activities have substantially altered natural stream temperature regimes, impairing these systems' ability to maintain ecological integrity. Thermal degradation often can be attributed to a variety of human activities, and global climate change, which has been accelerated by the demands of an exponentially expanding human population, will play a central role in defining stream temperature regimes in the future. Natural spatial and temporal variability in stream temperatures adds to the complexity of regulating thermal pollution and restoring natural conditions of stream ecosystems. As such, managers would benefit from a comprehensive understanding of the thermal dynamics and primary drivers, including air temperature, of the thermal energy budgets in unaltered, or reference, streams. In this study, a random coefficient regression model was developed and used to analyze variability in summer daily average water temperatures and the relationship between summer daily average air and water temperatures of thirty-six of the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's reference streams. These streams represent four of Montana's seven Level III ecoregions: Middle Rockies, Northern Rockies, Northwestern Glaciated Plains, and Northwestern Great Plains. Variability in stream temperatures between ecoregions, between streams within ecoregions, and the air-water temperature relationship were primary considerations. This model indicates that there is not significant variability between ecoregions in Montana's reference stream temperatures and in the air-water temperature relationship. Alternately, the model indicates that there is significant variability between streams within each ecoregion in reference stream temperatures and the air-water temperature relationship. Equations representing the expected daily average water temperatures of reference streams, given values of daily average air temperature with zero and one-day lag, are also presented. Finally, the management implications of this predictive model are discussed, and a holistic approach is recommended for developing thermal regime-based stream temperature standards, which are critical for the restoration and maintenance of ecological integrity, based on 1natural' conditions in reference streams.
Download or read book The National Hydrography Dataset written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Research Natural Areas on National Forest System Lands in Idaho Montana Nevada Utah and Western Wyoming written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Checklist of State Publications written by Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed M Pit Mine Expansion at the Montana Tunnels Mine in Jefferson County written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Knowles Paradise Dam Project written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lakes and Streams Water Quality Study written by Morrison-Maierle Morrison-Maierle and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-05 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book General Technical Report PNW GTR written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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