PIBO Effectiveness Monitoring Program
Administering Entity: United States Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM)
Entity Type(s): Federal
Water Resource: Rivers, Streams
Primary Data Type(s): Geomorphology, Habitat-Instream, Habitat-Riparian, Instream Physical, Substrate
Primary Watershed Monitoring Objective(s): Aquatic Invasive Species, Baseline, Long Term Fixed Station, Restoration Project Effectiveness, Trends
Subbasins: Beaverhead, Belt, Big Hole, Bitterroot, Blackfoot, Boulder, Box Elder, Clark Fork Yellowstone, Flathead Lake, Flint-Rock, Gallatin, Jefferson, Judith, Lower Clark Fork, Lower Tongue, Madison, Middle Clark Fork, Middle Fork Flathead, Middle Kootenai, North Fork Flathead, Red Rock, Ruby, Shoshone, Smith, South Fork Flathead, Stillwater, Sun, Swan, Two Medicine, Upper Clark Fork, Upper Little Missouri, Upper Missouri, Upper Missouri-Dearborn, Upper Musselshell, Upper Yellowstone, Yaak, Yellowstone Headwaters
Aquatic Invasive Species Type: New Zealand Mudsnail
Counties: Beaverhead, Bonner, Broadwater, Carbon, Carter, Cascade, Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Fergus, Flathead, Gallatin, Glacier, Golden Valley, Granite, Jefferson, Judith Basin, Lake, Lewis and Clark, Lincoln, Madison, Meagher, Mineral, Missoula, Park, Pondera, Powder River, Powell, Ravalli, Rosebud, Sanders, Silver Bow, Stillwater, Sweetgrass, Teton, Wheatland
Volunteers: no
Contact Name: Carl Saunders
Summary of Monitoring Objectives:
Evaluate aquatic and riparian resources for the purpose of assessing land use impacts to riparian ecosystems, describing status and trend in habitat quality, and understanding natural drivers of riparian metrics.