MoREAP BACKGROUND

The National Biological Service's 1996 State Partnership Program provided funding to the Missouri River Natural Resources Committee and the Columbia (MO) Environmental Research Center (now the Columbia Environmental Research Center in the U.S. Geological Survey) to develop a monitoring plan for the Missouri River. In July of 1996, participants met in Topeka, Kansas to begin defining the effort. State and Federal partners were each asked to submit five issues that they deemed most important.

The PDF document includes:

1) the 62 issues as they were submitted, numbered sequentially as they were received;

2) the identification of categories (habitat, policy, water quality, hydraulics/hydrology, biota) and the categorization of the issues (numbering follows #1);

3) the issues sorted by category (numbering follows #1);

4) breaking out single issues from multiple issue statements (numbering follows #1, a,b,c... identify single issues from multiple issue statements); and

5) sorting the issues by monitoring component (fish, birds, wildlife, habitat, restoration, hydraulics/hydrology, water quality, invertebrates).

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