Wildlife Monitoring
1) Redwood Creek estuary salmonid monitoring for adult spawning and juveniles
2) Redwood Creek monitoring for deformed amphibians
3) Marine mammal carcass monitoring (ongoing)
4) Marbled murrelet, snowy plover and brown pelican monitoring
Resource Management Water Quality Concerns
1) Freshwater
A) Effects of adjacent land use, in particular, logging on water quality
B) Water quality issues related to Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 303(d) impaired stream segments (i.e., Redwood Creek sedimentation/siltation and temperature, and Klamath River nutrients and temperature)
C) Water quality of Redwood Creek watershed related to sediment transport trends, water and suspended-sediment discharge, and water chemistry and aquatic biology
D) Impacts of recreational catch and release fishing on threatened salmonid species Note: a full discussion of the CWA Section 303(d) listing and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) program process can be found at the following EPA web site: http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/
2) Marine
A) Completion of coastal and intertidal inventories including assessments of human impacts, invasive species, offshore sediment budget and potential hazards such as oil spills
B) Compliance of near- and offshore water quality with State Water Quality Control Board standards
C) The impact of river flow output (e.g., Klamath River plume) on coastal habitat, productivity, and water chemistry
D) The potential presence of contaminants in the near- and offshore waters
E) Lack of complete inventories from most marine habitats (Table 11)
| Table 11: Marine Inventory Needs at Redwood National and State Parks |
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See Attachment I for RNSP watershed monitoring, water quality, and fisheries inventory, monitoring and research study references.
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