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Missouri Natural Area and Wilderness Stream Conservancy
MNAWSC is a project to designed to accomplish 3 goals; Establish or follow protocols to measure and document ecological integrity and water quality of streams in wilderness areas or high quality landscapes on public land. These may serve as reference streams at a future time. Archive and organize that data and information such that it may be used to advocate for protection of these and other streams. Project management is deciding if a wide range of such streams or a few demo areas would be an optimum model. Hopefully others would become interested and participate or start their own similar projects, and understand the difference in ecological drivers between urban streams and less impaired reference streams so as to benefit stream restorations of the future.
- Ongoing
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MNAWSC is a project designed to explore the difference in less impaired reference streams as well as provide known data for these reference streams. There are multiple goals for this activity as explained in the purpose section. It is hoped that it will increase attention of and help protect high quality less impaired streams in the Mo. Ozarks and nationally. The project author (Geoff Stillwell) has completed a reasonably thorough review of scientific literature on ‘The Urban Stream Syndrome’ and has concluded that many current ideas about storm water BMPs, related green strategies, and urban stream restoration may be in error, which increases the importance of understanding and protecting less impaired streams.The project is currently in the planning phase.
Ticket Required: No
Minimum Age: 13
Languages: English
