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Chequamegon-‐Nicolet National Forest Watershed Vulnerability Assessment, Eastern Region (R9) Figure 15. Modeled 100 and 500 year flood water surface elevations for an 87”x63” pipe-‐arch culvert at Riley Creek and Forest Road 2161 with a minimum bankfull width of 7.0 feet Road and trail stream crossings inventoried on the CNNF were used to estimate crossing density for each HUC-6. Densities for each HUC-6 ranged from 0.0 to 1.83 crossings per square mile. Watersheds were rated for their vulnerability to infrastructure impacts based on the following crossing densities (mi/sq mi): very low, 0.0-0.15; low, 0.16-0.39; moderate, 0.40-0.83; and high, 0.84-1.83. Watersheds were rated for their vulnerability to increased floods based on the following HSG indices: very low, 1.049-1.816; low, 1.862-2.422; moderate, 2.446-2.837; and high, 2.838-5.894. Combining the HSG and crossing density indices while giving the HSG index double weight resulted in 26 HUC-6s rated very low, 50 low, 46 moderate, and 37 high (Figure 16). The most vulnerable HUC-6s have high runoff potential and high crossing density while the least vulnerable have the opposite characteristics. However, it is possible to adapt to potential increases in flood flows in all watersheds by sizing stream crossing structures to bankfull width or greater and conducting hydrologic and hydraulic analyses to ensure the 100-yr flood elevation is below the top of the culvert to provide freeboard for future increases in flood flows. Such sizing will also help to restore or maintain aquatic organism passage and channel morphology, reduce maintenance, and extend structure life. 254 Assessing the Vulnerability of Watersheds to Climate Change
Chequamegon-‐Nicolet National Forest Watershed Vulnerability Assessment, Eastern Region (R9) Figure 16. HUC-6 watershed vulnerability to infrastructure (stream crossing) impacts from climate change on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest Stream Fishes Both cold water species, brook trout and mottled sculpin, are very vulnerable to all levels of warming but especially to moderate and major warming. The projected existing and future brook trout distributions are provided in Figure 17. Brook trout and mottled sculpin were predicted to decline by 81 and 76 percent, respectively, under moderate warming, and 100 and 90 percent under moderate warming (Table 5). These two species are fairly common in small- to medium-sized streams across the CNNF and brook trout are a popular sport fish. Such declines could have a dramatic effect on recreational fishing opportunities and cold water stream ecology. As a group, cool water species appear to be very vulnerable to moderate and major warming. They were predicted to decline by 15 to 98 percent under moderate warming and only two of these species, brook stickleback and northern hogsucker, were predicted to decline by less than 47 percent (Table 5). These eight species are very common and occur in a wide range of stream habitats across the Forest. Such declines could have a dramatic effect on the abundance and distribution of stream fishes and on stream ecology. 255 Assessing the Vulnerability of Watersheds to Climate Change
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