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Management Area Area Total Stream Length Forested Name Description Principal Subwatersheds Traversed mi 2 km 2 Area (%) mi km Stream Density (stream length/area) mi/ mi 2 km/ km 2 2D 2DWB Conneaut Creek Main Stem West Branch Conneaut Creek Main Stem Conneaut Creek 21.73 56.27 47.74 — — — — Conneaut Creek 7.57 19.60 66.23 28.22 45.41 3.73 2.31 Zone 3 (Lake Plain) 3A Eastern Lake Plain Sixmile, Sevenmile, Eightmile, Twelvemile, Sixteenmile, and Twentymile Creeks; Lake Erie (Direct Runoff) 38.49 99.68 25.62 148.59 239.12 3.86 2.40 3B Central Lake Plain Trout Run; Walnut, Cascade, Mill, and Fourmile Creeks; Lake Erie (Direct Runoff) 42.75 110.72 14.22 60.19 96.87 1.41 0.87 3C Western Lake Plain Conneaut, Turkey, Raccoon, and Crooked Creeks; Lake Erie (Direct Runoff) 40.27 104.31 41.22 145.07 233.46 3.60 2.24 Notes: (a) Accurate stream length data are not available for the Crawford County portion of the study area; (b) This portion of the Lake Erie (Direct Runoff) subwatershed includes Godfrey Run, which is both an HQ-CWF and non-attainment stream. "non-attainment" stream segments (see Figure 5.20). Restoring streams in this management area will require a major public investment for infrastructure improvements and implementation of BMPs. Fortunately, several initiatives aimed at addressing water quality problems in this management area have already been initiated by the DEP, Erie County Conservation District, Presque Isle Bay Area of Concern Public Advisory Committee (PAC), Pennsylvania Sea Grant, PLEWA, and there is now an opportunity for restoration planning to be advanced in conjunction with multi-municipality Act 167 storm water management planning. Other management areas besides 3B with low proportions (< 40%) of forest cover also contain stream segments with documented water quality problems. All of the management areas listed in Table 10.2 that display
Figure 10.2. Example of how GIS can be employed to locate and highlight (in blue) parcels larger than 5 acres that are adjacent to non-attainment stream sections, shown here in MA 3B. portions of the Elk and Conneaut Creek subwatersheds being composed of nearly 50% forests (see Figures 6.16 and 6.17). Numerous wetlands (Figure 10.3) are also present in many of these well-forested management areas (see Figures 6.13 and 6.14), which suggests a high likelihood that they also harbor plant and animals species of special conservation concern (see chapter 6). The exceptional merits of the still-"intact" forest resources in MAs 1A and 2DWB indicate that stakeholders in those areas should consider possible designations of these zones (or portions of them) as Forest Heritage Protection Areas. As MA 2DWB is already largely protected via Game Land 101 (see Figure 6.18), it might be wise to consider including portions of the surrounding management areas (1AM, 2D, and 1DWW) under the umbrella of a Forest Heritage Protection Area. The Lake Erie Region Conservancy is presently working on a conservation plan for the Conneaut Creek watershed, funded by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, and will be evaluating the merits of such a designation as part of this project. In order to provide an example of how land preservation efforts might be carried out, GIS was used to generate a map of MA 1A, highlighting parcels larger than 50 acres that contain forests, wetlands, and streams (Figure 10.4). This illustration demonstrates a model of how stakeholder groups implementing protection plans for a particular management area could conduct preliminary screening of candidate properties possessing natural resource features that would be valuable to place under the protection of conservation easements. The map also facilitates locating clusters of forested properties, which could be collectively considered for efforts to establish Forest Heritage Protection Areas containing core forest. 10.5 Rivers Conservation Plan Priority Actions Tables 10.3–10.5 contain a summary of "priority" actions for implementation of this Rivers Conservation Plan. A detailed listing of government agencies and regional organizations that provide technical support and/or funding for conservation-related activities is found in Appendix C. Actions have been divided into three categories: outreach, restoration, and protection. Implementation of the restoration 167
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Pennsylvania Rivers Conservation Pr
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land to development. Strong communi
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Human resources available to facili
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other communities, organizations, a
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TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures .
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8.3 Sustainable Development and Gov
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Figure 5.14. Average summer phospho
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Figure 10.3. Management Areas propo
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AND PLAN AUTHORSHIP
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working with interested teacher and
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Figure 1.3. Perceived importance of
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1.3 Watershed Plan Focus The primar
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Figure 2.2. Detail of the south-cen
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Figure 2.4. Physiographic provinces
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westward. Although the paucity of f
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via the Erigan River, a major river
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Warren and Whittlesey can be found
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evised paleoenvironmental picture,
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characteristic ground stone tools,
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phase represent the most common Lat
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including flexed and extended inhum
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with the appearance of European tra
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania wa
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of $800 for the purchase of The Tri
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In addition to these townships, the
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Pittsburgh Railroad had reached New
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Figure 3.3. Density of registered a
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the Whittlesey and Warren III stran
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Table 3.3. Properties in the Study
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Table 3.3—continued Name Address
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Table 3.3—continued Name Address
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"Little Ice Age"), and the validity
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"massasaugies" (Eastern Massasauga
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eport (Col. John Fleeharty) lamente
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flowing streams. The starting point
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elow the park." Apparently the pump
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A submerged arching sand feature is
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of the lake plain and upland areas
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characteristics, and are important
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Lake section (see Figure 2.4). Nota
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Figure 5.2. Flow time series for Tw
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Figure 5.4. Flow time series for Co
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Figure 5.8. Flow per square mile pe
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area that have thicker glacial depo
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Table 5.4. Protected Water Uses for
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Stream Zone County 3—East Branch
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5.10.2 Permitted Discharges The two
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Figure 5.14. Average summer phospho
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Figure 5.15. Graphical analyses of
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Figure 5.17. Average summer nitrate
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Figure 5.19. Mercury concentrations
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Figure 5.20. Map showing locations
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Figure 5.22. Number of stream miles
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91 Figure 5.24. Results of Campbell
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Table 5.6. Range in Number of E. co
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Figure 5.26. Maximum E. coli counts
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The recent investigation completed
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Figure 5.30. Sources of known nondo
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6 NATURAL RESOURCES 6.1 Animal Life
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Rank Status Taxon Common Name Globa
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Table 6.2. Pennsylvania Vertebrate
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Table 6.3. Noted Occurrence of Spaw
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Figure 6.4. Water quality designati
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Figure 6.6. Fishing hours spent on
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Figure 6.7. Comparative analysis of
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Page 193 and 194: Restoration actions Management Area
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Page 223 and 224: Preparing For Watershed Conservatio
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If You Had To Choose Between Proper
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Favorite Locations For Recreation I
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Favorite Motor Boating Locations To
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Favorite Hiking Locations Location
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Favorite Swimming Locations Total R
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Knowledge Of Historic And Prehistor
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Support For Stream Protection Measu
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LERC Rivers Conservation Plan Publi
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• Mason: As far as education, get
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• Kloss: Educate people about Act
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Great Lakes Commission http://www.g
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Center for Economic and Environment
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The Erie County portion of the Penn
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Feature Parameters Parameter Variab
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