Lanesboro Area Fisheries Long-Term Monitoring (LTM) Program
Objective: To increase the understanding of cyclic trout populations, watershed health, and aquatic resources of southeast Minnesota
Criteria for choosing and prioritizing specific streams is based on...
- Importance of fisheries to anglers
- Amount of existing water quality data
- Occurance of sympatric trout populations (brown trout/brook trout)
- Representation of multiple stream classes
- Marginal fishery status (these streams may have climate change issues)
- Spatial distribution
High Priority Streams
- Gribben Creek
- Root River, South Branch
- Trout Run Creek
- West Indian Creek
- Whitewater River, South Branch
- Winnebago Creek
Medium Priority Streams
- Bear Creek
- Beaver Creek (Whitewater)
- Camp Creek
- Cold Spring Brook
- East Indian Creek
- Ferguson Creek
- Forestville Creek
- Garvin Brook
- Pine Creek (New Hartford)
- Root River, South Fork
- Wells Creek
- Whitewater River, Middle Branch
- Whitewater River, North Branch
Low Priority Streams
- Bee Creek
- Hay Creek
- Root River, North Branch
- Trout Brook
- Trout Valley Creek
Tasks for future LTM Program work:
- Continue to build working relationships with other offices and agencies to make expansion of the project possible
- Determine needs for and acquire equipment at various stations
- Finalize working relationships with other partners
- Present monitoring plans and results at meetings
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