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| The Long Term Resource Monitoring Program
An element of the Upper Mississippi River Restoration - Environmental Management Program |  |  |
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# Ecological Status and Trends of the Upper Mississippi River System 1998

##  A Report of the UMRR Long Term Resource Monitoring Program           element          

### **Press Release: "Old           Man River Gets Health Check Up"**

> ****The         purpose of this report is to present, analyze, and discuss information         about the ecological condition of the Upper         Mississippi River System (UMRS). The report includes, but is not limited         to data and results from the initial years of the Long         Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), the largest monitoring program         in the country. The mission of the LTRMP is to provide decision makers         with information they need to maintain the UMRS as a sustainable large         river ecosystem given its multiple-use character. 

- UMESC file types    - Adobe Acrobat Reader (.pdf) 

 

  

-  Cover,           Foreword, Preface, and Contents     (99t001_frntmatlr.pdf;           2.0 mb)
                  
-  Section I: Introduction to the Upper Mississippi River
Chapter 1
 - 
Introduction
                (99t001_ch01lr.pdf; 114 kb) 
Chapter 2
 - 
Floodplain             River Ecology and the Concept of River Ecological Health
 (99t001_ch02lr.pdf;             2.6 mb)
Chapter 3
 - 
Important             Milestones in the Human and Ecological History of the Upper Mississippi             River System
    (99t001_ch03lr.pdf; 2.5 mb) 
                    
-  Section II: Presenting the Facts 
Chapter 4
 - 
River             Geomorphology and Floodplain Habitats
  (99t001_ch04lr.pdf;             8.4 mb) 
Chapter 5
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Watershed             Relations and Changes
    (99t001_ch05lr.pdf; 1.2             mb)
Chapter 6
 - 
Hydrology
                (99t001_ch06lr.pdf; 883 kb)
Chapter 7
 - 
Water             and Sediment Quality
    (99t001_ch07lr.pdf; 2.3             mb)
Chapter 8
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Submersed             Aquatic Vegetation
    (99t001_ch08lr.pdf; 1.8 mb)
Chapter 9
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Floodplain             Forests
    (99t001_ch09lr.pdf; 2.0 mb)
Chapter 10
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Macroinvertebrates
                (99t001_ch10lr.pdf; 1.5 mb)
Chapter 11
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Freshwater             Mussels
    (99t001_ch11lr.pdf; 379 kb)
Chapter 12
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Fishes
                (99t001_ch12lr.pdf; 572 kb)
Chapter 13
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Birds
                (99t001_ch13lr.pdf; 577 kb)
                    
-  Section III: Case Histories 
Chapter 14
 - 
The             Illinois River
    (99t001_ch14lr.pdf; 401 kb)
Chapter 15
 - 
The             Flood of 1993
    (99t001_ch15lr.pdf; 1 mb)
                    
-  Section IV: Looking Forward  
Chapter 16
 - 
Assessments             and Forecasts of the Ecological Health of the Upper Mississippi River             System Floodplain Reaches
    (99t001_ch16lr.pdf;             274 kb)

-  Glossary           and Back Matter     (99t001_glossarylr.pdf; 188           kb)

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