This project examines the effectiveness of guidelines to protect forested riparian areas at a site level. Guidelines developed in Minnesota in 1998 recommend timber harvest in riparian areas. This project is part of a larger effort with the US Forest Service and the Natural Resources Research Institute. Our 14-member team is evaluating effects of riparian forest harvest on water quality, fish, invertebrates, and stream morphology across three riparian harvest treatments (none, low, and imtermediate); totally unharvested (riparian and upland) control sites and riparian sites with no harvest. Our time frame is one year of pre-harvest (2003) and three years of post-harvest (2004-2006). We have found significant variation between years in habitat scores and macroinvertebrate samples indicate differences within and between sites in species composition and abundance. Continued monitoring will be required before we can fully assess the effects of riparian harvest. This study will serve as the basis for longer term assessment of the effects of riparian harvest and provide information about the ecology of forest streams and will be used directly by the Minnesota Forest Resources Council to develop logging policy in Minnesota.
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- Airspace as habitat: methods for assessing use by animals
- Assessing landowers’/producers’ attitudes
- Assessing the cumulative impacts to near-shore, in-water habitat
- Assessment of techniques for evaluating woodcock population response
- Biodiversity conflict management: land-use policies in island landscapes, a state-level comparison
- Deer goal setting surveys and deer hunter attitude research
- Delineating sandhill crane populations in Minnesota
- Demographic response of golden-winged warbler
- Determining possible effects of local fish species on recruitment dynamics of common carp
- Effects of imperfect detectability on inferences from monitoring
- Effects of riparian forest harvest on instream habitat and fish and invertebrate communities
- Fall Movements, Habitat Use, and Survival of the American Woodcock in the Western Great Lakes Region
- Geographical information systems techniques to channel slope delineation in Minnesota
- Golden-winged warbler demography and habitat associations in Minnesota
- Historical and current black tern habitat relationships in the Great Lakes region
- Home Range and Habitat Use of Breeding Northern Goshawks in North-central Minnesota
- Human Dimensions Research Fellow
- Identifying risks to migratory birds and bats from wind development
- Interactions Between Native And Nonnative Species: Consequences Of A Brown Trout Introduction On A Coldwater Stream Community
- Marshbird response to invasive cattail control
- Moose habitat use and activity in Voyageurs National Park
- Mortality of walleye caught in live-release tournaments: assessment, reduction, and determination of acceptable levels
- Nestor One Canada Goose Research Camp
- Predicting and mitigating vulnerability of trout streams
- Range-wide migratory connectivity for full-cycle conservation of the golden-winged warbler
- Resource use of arctic peregrine falcons along the Colville River, Alaska
- Southeast Minnesota landowner focus groups and survey
- Stream classification for TMDL assessment using a dimensionless, reference reach approach
- Summarizing data and developing conservation practices for eagle nesting and concentration areas in the Midwest Region
- Survival and recovery rates of webless migratory game birds
- The 2014 waterfowl hunting season in Minnesota
- The use of satellite telemetry
- Walk-in access user study
- Wild turkey hunter survey
- Winter diets and growth of brown trout Salmo trutta in groundwater-dominated streams
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