Quantifying Instream Habitat in the Upper Shavers Fork Basin at Multiple Spatial Scales
Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) populations in the upper Shavers Fork, a high elevation watershed in eastern West Virginia, have been severely impacted by a loss of quality habitat. Successful restoration of these populations will require a comprehensive understanding of current habitat conditions at a watershed scale. We describe a statistically based habitat survey designed to quantify physical habitat conditions within the watershed at a range of spatial scales. Our study also addresses the following specific objectives: 1) to describe discrete hydraulic channel units that commonly...
