Truckee River looking upstream at the Fellnagle site.Truckee River looking upstream at the Fellnagle site.

 

Truckee River at the Fellnagle site.Truckee River at the Fellnagle site.

 

Osprey above the Truckee River looking for fish. Osprey above the Truckee River looking for fish.

Monitoring Map >> Fellnagle


Fellnagle - Physical Habitat and Bioassessment Sampling Site


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Location: Latitude N: 39.64594
Longitude W: 119.28891
Elevation: 4039 ft.
Washoe County; near Wadsworth, NV 89442
Equipment: A YSI 6920 multiparameter water quality sonde is used to obtain temperature, specific conductance, pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, tds, and turbidity.
A 18"x12" kicknet, 500 micron mesh, is used to collect benthic macroinvertebrates. A densiometer is used to get an estimate for canopy cover along the 500 meter reach.
Period of Record: 2006 to present.

The Tribe's Physical Habitat & Bioassessment monitoring program began on the lower Truckee River in 1989. Physical Habitat & Bioassessments are conducted annually at eleven locations on the lower Truckee River, usually during base flows (end of August). Physical Habitat assessments are conducted within a 20 x 500 meters reach of the river. Water samples, in situ stream measurements, and benthic macroinvertebrates are collected at the mid point of the reach following protocols in the Tribe's 2007 Quality Assurance Project Plan.(7.4 Mb PDF file)


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