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| Title | Quality Assurance Project Plan: Type N Experimental Buffer Treatment Study: Addressing Buffer Effectiveness on Riparian Inputs, Water Quality, and Exports to Fish-Bearing Waters in Basaltic Lithologies | |||
| Month-Year Published | March 2007 | |||
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| Short Description |
This is the Type N experimental buffer treatment study plan addressing buffer effectiveness on riparian inputs, water quality, and exports to fish-bearing waters in basaltic lithologies. (Also see abstract below) | |||
| Publication Number | 07-03-103 | |||
| Author(s) | Ehinger, W. and S. Estrella | |||
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| Number of pages | 27 + app (101 total) | |||
| Keywords | board, buffer, evaluation, fish, forest practices, monitoring, progress report, quality, quality assurance, riparian, treatment, water, water quality, WRIA 28 | |||
| Subject Waterbodies |
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| Addendum to Quality Assurance Project Plan: Type N Experimental Buffer Treatment Study: Addressing Buffer Effectiveness on Riparian Inputs, Water Quality, and Exports to Fish-Bearing Waters in Basaltic Lithologies | similar topic | |||
| Abstract | Long Description |
The Cooperative Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Committee of the Washington State Forest Practices Board commissioned an experimental study to analyze the effectiveness of buffer prescriptions on inputs to and exports from Type N streams. The Washington State Department of Ecology, in cooperation with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Weyerhaeuser Company, is participating in data collection and analysis of the study variables. The Quality Assurance Project Plan describes the Department of Ecology′s contribution to the study that will evaluate the influence of buffer treatments on riparian inputs, water quality, and exports to downstream fish-bearing waters. A Before-After Control-Impact design will be used to assess the response of temperature, nutrients, drift, sediment, streamflow, shade, and litterfall to four buffer treatments. Two years of pre-harvest data, one year of harvest data, and two years of post-harvest data will be collected from Type N streams in the (1) Olympic Mountains, (2) Willapa Hills, and (3) Southern Cascades beginning in summer of 2006. Progress reports summarizing the study results will be developed annually, with final data analysis and interpretation occurring at the end of the study in 2011. |
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