Intensively Monitored Watersheds
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The basic premise of the IMW project is that the complex relationships controlling salmon response to habitat conditions can best be understood by concentrating monitoring and research efforts at a few locations. The type of data required to evaluate the response of fish populations to management actions that affect habitat quality or quantity are difficult and expensive to collect. Focusing efforts on a relatively few locations enables enough data on physical and biological attributes of a system to be collected to develop a comprehensive understanding of the factors affecting salmon production in freshwater.
There are multiple pages from different partner agencies describing the efforts. In addition, many of the IMW watersheds also have pages describing local work.
