Datasets / Walnut Creek Watershed Restoration and Water Quality Monitoring Project

Walnut Creek Watershed Restoration and Water Quality Monitoring Project

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Published By US Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
a one-off release of a single dataset

Data Licence
Not Applicable

Content Licence
Creative Commons CCZero

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

The primary objective of this project is to establish a nonpoint source monitoring program in relation to the watershed habitat restoration and agricultural management changes implemented by the Walnut Creek National Wildlife Refuge and Prairie Learning Center WNT. The WNT watershed is being restored to native prairie andor savanna; riparian zones and wetlands will be restored in context, with riparian zones grading from prairie waterways, to savanna, to timbered stream borders. The general goal of this project is: to institute a comprehensive, longterm, 319NPS protocol monitoring project in the Walnut Creek Watershed, Jasper County, Iowa and to quantitatively document overtime the reduction in nonpoint source pollution and environmental improvements resulting from watershed habitat restoration and land management changes implemented by WNT.

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