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Idea Auction: • Jim McGivern: Get people to local government meetings; re: zoning and development. Also, close Lake Erie Speedway; stop fish commissioner Sam Concilla from turning Twentymile Creek into a “Class A” fishery like Walnut Creek. • Diana Hatfield: Continue a public anti-litter campaign – “Take it with you.” Also, Limit ATV/snowmobile use to designated roads; ban on woodland areas. • Mike Campbell: Eliminate automobiles (personal); advance improvements in availability of public transportation. Also, develop micro-hydropower facilities on our waterways: alternative to fossil fuel burning; small-scale fish culture coupled with plant growing operations on idle farms. • Dave Pedler: Environmental benefit rock concert. Also, prehistory living museum; city tree committee (shade tree). • Pat Lupo: Offer Act 48 workshops for teachers to provide background information that they can use in the classroom. Also, integrate watershed celebration into a variety of events; i.e., July 4 at Mercyhurst, Coastal Connections, ICC, Arbor Day, Earth Day, etc.; encourage participation in township /borough meetings; also, PLEWA public meetings. • Melissa Borgia: Keep highways from destroying beautiful recreation areas in the future. • Susan Murawski: Inform DEP that you don’t want them to permit Lake Erie Speedway to discharge treated sewage into nearby creeks. • Dave: More conservation easement money to preserve natural areas. General Comments: • Concern for point source still • Success in getting DEP to work with you – you to think that takes public groups to get DEP to act; even have to take them to court. • Get people to township meetings. Shouldn’t “tinkle” on neighbors. It’s all of ours – watershed. Don’t know how municipality will act. • Do you have a list of known point sources • DEP is more talk than walk; more interested in monetary gain. • Some investigation into water recreation. • To whom did surveys go • What is the typical response to surveys 16% may not be so bad. • Jill: 30% on recent surveys in Erie County. • Should ask a question about negative impact – assessing. • Has anyone sent surveys to landowners along streams to ask them what they want to do with their land 236
• Kloss: Educate people about Act 319 – does not exceed what you’re contributing to watershed. • Trying to build Presque Isle into national asset – detrimental to PI because it increases the number of people there degrades the place. • What is recreational Human use or sit there For example; taxes keep farmers from leaving land alone (Tom: saving land saves money). • We have a municipality here that thinks building (Wal-Mart) is always better. Appalled by ignorance of gravel vs. asphalt lots. It’s the township supervisors who aren’t helping. • Dave Skellie’s idea is that large pieces of land have no roads. We want peace and quiet. (Dave: land use plan coming soon). Areas proposed for development are what supervisors proposed – Greenfield Township building in particular. • Dave: Private groups can get much further than government agencies when it comes to municipal officials. They’re not perceived to be Big Brother like county planning. • Municipal officials may receive you well, but may have the idea that they are the local kings. We have to regionalize – let them know that they are not isolated cells. At some point, we have to get developers to stop. • They come in with promises of jobs, but that’s b.s. – they are service jobs. • Does archaeology focus on west county or will it go on to east county and beyond • Kloss: We could see where identifying sites could help with protecting the land. • Scieford site: family present. • Data looks pretty precise; anyone would know where it is. • Are geological features considered in this plan • Watershed mapping – could be from green to yellow because of classification issues. • What is the EPA website • In one township – need to sign on as guarantor for point-source streams, operators asking people to bear liability for failure if operator...three supervisors say in our case (Tom: We’re addressing it. WHen people vote – issues: awareness vs. name familiarity. Earth Force group). • Potential for more attorneys on board 237
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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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Figure 6.9. Percentage breakdown of
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A small number of the birds listed
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phytoplankton by Dreissena allows l
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populations increase. Corbicula flu
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Rank Status Taxon Common name Globa
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Rank Status Taxon Common name Globa
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Two other forest wetland plant comm
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6.2.4 Emergent Wetlands Over half o
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alleghaniensis), sugar maple, red m
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Table 6.6.Percentage Composition of
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Figure 6.18. Detail of the largest
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Figure 7.1. Responses made by study
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Figure 7.3. Spatial distribution of
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Presque Isle State Park is connecte
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Table 7.2. Number of Recreational O
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lakefront recreational properties,
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Map Id Subwatershed Comment 51 41.5
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Bayfront Center for Maritime Studie
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Other watershed associations or wat
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Figure 8.1. Child poverty rates in
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comprehensive vision or plan, have
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and municipalities should be encour
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5. In order to sustain maximum biod
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10 PRIORITIES AND STRATEGIES FOR AC
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easements for riparian areas, and p
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Table 10.2 Management Areas Defined
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Figure 10.2. Example of how GIS can
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Figure 10.4. Example of how GIS can
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Watershed Portion MAs Main Subwater
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Restoration actions Management Area
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11 REFERENCES CITED Abrams, M. D. 2
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Broyles, B. J. 1971 Second Prelimin
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Cooper, N. L., J. R. Bidwell, and D
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Dzurko, Robert 1972 Conneaut Creek
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Goodyear, A. C. 1999 The Early Holo
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Page 215 and 216: Soon, W. and S. Baliunas 2003 Proxy
Page 217 and 218: Tomikel and Shepps 1967 Trasande, L
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Page 223 and 224: Preparing For Watershed Conservatio
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Page 233 and 234: Please Indicate Whether You Agree,
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Page 247 and 248: Knowledge Of Historic And Prehistor
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Page 253 and 254: LERC Rivers Conservation Plan Publi
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Page 263: Center for Economic and Environment
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Page 269 and 270: Feature Parameters Parameter Variab
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