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- description: To address the need for baseline inventories of biota and abiotic features, the Columbia River Fisheries Program
Office (CRFPO) conducted fish and aquatic habitat surveys at the Sheldon-Hart Mountain NWR Complex. The goal was to establish
a baseline of fish community and habitat information for the watersheds of the primary streams supporting native fish at each
refuge. The objectives were to document which fish species were present, determine the watersheds that were occupied by these
species, to describe the distribution of these fish within various watersheds, and characterize aquatic habitat. In addition,
a final objective was to establish and use a systematic, quantitatively rigorous, sample framework and approach that can standardize
future assessments of changes in fish occupancy, fish distribution, and aquatic habitats.We surveyed the Virgin Creek and
Fish Creek watersheds at Sheldon NWR, as well as the Guano Creek and Rock Creek watersheds at Hart Mountain NAR. To guide
surveys in these watersheds, we developed a sample framework and identified three tiers (upper, middle, and lower) in the
watersheds and sample reaches within each tier. The survey protocol consisted of two primary activities: surveying for fish
at reaches where conditions were conducive to electrofishing; and characterizing habitat attributes at sample reaches.; abstract:
To address the need for baseline inventories of biota and abiotic features, the Columbia River Fisheries Program Office (CRFPO)
conducted fish and aquatic habitat surveys at the Sheldon-Hart Mountain NWR Complex. The goal was to establish a baseline
of fish community and habitat information for the watersheds of the primary streams supporting native fish at each refuge.
The objectives were to document which fish species were present, determine the watersheds that were occupied by these species,
to describe the distribution of these fish within various watersheds, and characterize aquatic habitat. In addition, a final
objective was to establish and use a systematic, quantitatively rigorous, sample framework and approach that can standardize
future assessments of changes in fish occupancy, fish distribution, and aquatic habitats.We surveyed the Virgin Creek and
Fish Creek watersheds at Sheldon NWR, as well as the Guano Creek and Rock Creek watersheds at Hart Mountain NAR. To guide
surveys in these watersheds, we developed a sample framework and identified three tiers (upper, middle, and lower) in the
watersheds and sample reaches within each tier. The survey protocol consisted of two primary activities: surveying for fish
at reaches where conditions were conducive to electrofishing; and characterizing habitat attributes at sample reaches.
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- Title Fish and Aquatic Habitat Survey: Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge.
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2018-05-19T11:18:17.117527
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