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Geomorphology, Biology, & Stability of Catskill Mountain Streams, New York

Dates

End Date
2007-09-30
Start Date
1999-10-01

Summary

Problem - The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP) Stream Management Program, in cooperation with local Soil and Water Conservation Districts, is implementing stream-restoration demonstration projects to decrease channel bed and bank erosion and improve water quality (lower suspended sediment and turbidity) in several priority streams of the Catskill Mountain Region (Fig. 1). A variety of issues relating to (a) the hydraulic geometry of stable and unstable stream channels, (b) validation of underlying assumptions used to characterize channel stability and design, and (c) the effects of restoration on stream-channel geomorphology, stability, biota, and sediment transport have not been addressed previously [...]

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“The New York City, West of Hudson Watershed, Flood Regions, the Catskill Park”
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“Restored stream reach in the Catskill Mountain Region”
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“Electroshocking a Catskill stream”
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“Brown trout from a Catskill stream”
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typeShort Project Description
valuePrimary objectives of this project are to document the effects that stream-channel restoration efforts have on stream channel geomorphology, stream habitat, and fish assemblages in the Catskill Mountains.
projectProducts
productDescriptionMulvihill, C. I., B. P. Baldigo, A. S. Gallagher, and P. Eskeli. 2003. Guidelines for characterizing fish habitat in wadeable streams of the Catskill Mountain region, New York. U.S. Geological Survey, Open File Report 02-484, Troy, NY. http://ny.water.usgs.gov/pubs/of/of02484/
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productDescriptionBaldigo, B.P., Warren, D.R., Ernst, A.G., and Mulvihill, C.I., 2008, Response of fish populations to natural channel design restoration in streams of the Catskill Mountains, New York: North American Journal of Fisheries Management, v. 28, no. 3, p. 954-969, doi: 10.1577/M06-213.1 http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/catskillgeopmorph/M06-213.pdf
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productDescriptionBaldigo, B.P. and Warren, D.R., 2008, Detecting the response of fish assemblages to stream restoration: Effects of different sampling designs: North American Journal of Fisheries Management, v. 28, no. 3, p. 919-934, doi: 10.1577/M06-171.1 http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/catskillgeopmorph/M06-171.pdf
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productDescriptionBaldigo, B.P., Warren, D.R., Gallagher-Ernst, A.S., Miller, S.J., Davis, D., Keller, W., Baudanza, T.P., DeKoskie, D., and Buchanan, J.R., 2008, Restoring geomorphic stability and biodiversity in streams of the Catskill Mountains, New York, USA., in Nielsen, J.L., Dodson, J.J., Friedland, K.D., Hamon, T.R., Hughes, N.F., Musick, J.A., and Verspoor, E., eds., Proceedings of the Fourth World Fisheries Congress: Reconciling fisheries with conservation, Symposium 49: Bethesda, Maryland., American Fisheries Society, p. 1777-1790. http://ny.water.usgs.gov/projects/catskillgeopmorph/baldigo_4WFC_2008.pdf
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productDescriptionMulvihill, C.I., Baldigo, B.P., and Ernst, A.G., 2009, Fish communities and habitat of geomorphically stable reference reaches in streams of the Catskill Mountain region, New York: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5047, 43 p, online only. http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2009/5047/
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productDescriptionWarren, D.R., A.G. Ernst, and B.P. Baldigo, 2009, Influence of spring floods on year-class strength of fall and spring spawning salmonids in Catskill Mountain streams: Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, v. 138, p. 200-210. http://afs.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1577/T08-046.1
statusDelivered
productDescriptionBaldigo, B. P., and A. G. Ernst. 2009. Do fish benefit from stream restoration in the Catskill Mountains? Clear Waters 39(Summer):54-59. http://nywea.org/Clearwaters/09-2-summer/08-DoFishBenefit.pdf
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productDescriptionErnst, A. G., B. P. Baldigo, C. I. Mulvihill, and Vian, Mark, 2010. Effects of Natural-Channel-Design Restoration on Habitat Quality in Catskill Mountain Streams, New York. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139(2):468-482. http://afs.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/T08-153.1#.VcOVQ2er7mE
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productDescriptionBaldigo, B. P., A. G. Ernst, D. R. Warren, and S. J. Miller, 2010. Variable responses of fish assemblages, habitat, and stability to natural-channel-design restoration in Catskill Mountain streams. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 139:449-467. http://afs.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1577/T08-152.1#.VcOVdGer7mE
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Electroshocking a Catskill stream
Electroshocking a Catskill stream

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  • Catskills Biology

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