Rodero Creek.Rodero Creek.

 

Hiking up Rodero Creek.Rodero Creek is heavily utilized by range cattle, especially where black willow and cottonwood trees provide shade from the summer heat.

 

Exotic noxious weed, Tamarisk, growing along Rodero Creek.Exotic noxious weed, Tamarisk, growing along with willows in Rodero Creek.

Monitoring Map >> Rodero Creek - Lower


Rodero Creek - Physical Habitat and Bioassessment Sampling Site


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Location: Latitude N:39.94345
Longitude W: 119.61849
Elevation: 4164 ft.
Pah Rah Range; Washoe County, NV
Equipment: 1). A YSI 6920 multiparameter WQ monitoring instrument is used to record temperature, specific conductivity, pH, dissolved oxygen, salinity, tds, and turbidity during the sampling event.
2). A 18"x12" kicknet, 500 micron mesh, is used to collect benthic macroinvertebrates at 3 sites.
3). A densiometer is used to obtain an estimate of canopy cover (%) along the 150 meter reach.
Period of Record: 2002, 2004 to present

 Physical Habitat & Bioassessment monitoring began in 2002 within the Rodero Creek watershed, and conducted annually during the month of April or May depending on flows. Physical Habitat assessments are conducted within a 10 x 150 meter reach of the stream.  Benthic macro-invertebrates are collected at three sites within the reach, and water samples/ stream measurements are taken 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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