From: streamkeepers

Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:39 AM

Subject: P-hab decisions

Dear Streamkeeper volunteers and advisors,

After some excellent feedback from many of you, we've decided what we're doing about Physical Habitat monitoring for the time being:

1. P-hab monitoring will be optional for each team this August. It'll be up to your team to decide whether you want to do it. Also, your choice doesn't have to be all-or-nothing: you can choose to do the P-hab suite at only one site, or to do only certain P-hab protocols--mix and match as you like. Please let us know what you plan to do!

2. Please, however, perform the Bank Stability assessment that we introduced last year--that's the super-fast one where you rate bank stability from 1-4.

3. Training in P-hab protocols will also be optional this year, and offered on a separate day: July 18, from 10 till about 4. We'll meet at the Streamkeeper office.

4. To "close out" our analysis of P-hab data using our current set of protocols, we need one more round of cross-section measurements to be taken at selected sites this year. Those sites are:

Jimmycomelately 0.6 & 0.8

Siebert 3.0 & 3.8

Bagley 4.6

Morse 1.1 & 2.0

Lees 0.1

Peabody 0.2, 1.0, and 1.4

Valley 0.7 & 2.2

Salt 6.4

Bear SF 0.2

Lake Trib @LB 6.2

Elk 1.9 & 2.9

5. In the coming months, we'll be researching and communicating about whether & how to measure P-hab in future years. We hope to have the new system in place by next summer, whatever it may be. Feel free to offer input on this topic, if you haven't already; let us know if you need a copy of the original memo on this topic.

Thanks, E&H