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Management of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon Idella) has become of great interest to fisheries managers throughout multiple watersheds where they have become established. Grass Carp baits have been tested as part of an integrated pest management plan to aggregate fish and increase catchability. However, the habitats, water depth, and structures used by Grass Carp remain poorly...

The study compared the survival of zebra mussels and benthic macroinvertebrates after a 5-day treatment with carbon dioxide infusion under a tarp and a benthic mat. The study was conducted on Loon Lake, Benzie County, Michigan within Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. The data include water quality (dissolved oxygen, pH, temperature) and water chemistry, zebra mussel mortality and...

The US Geological Survey's Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center, in coordination with the US Fish and Wildlife Service's (USFWS) Branch of Migratory Bird Surveys, worked to develop, survey, and deploy an advanced aerial photography boresight in the town of Bassville Park, Florida. The intention of this boresight is to provide an extensive array of high-accuracy ground control...

This study aimed to determine movement patterns of Mooneye in the St. Croix National Scenic Riverway (SACN) to better understand their range, seasonal behavior, spawning site fidelity, and co-occurrence with Spectaclecase. To our knowledge, Mooneye have never been tracked with acoustic transmitters. Prior to Mooneye trials, we conducted a Gizzard Shad pilot to ensure surgeries were...

The Portneuf River sub basin is located in southeast Idaho, USA. The Portneuf River is approximately 100 miles long and drains an area of roughly 1,360 square miles. Five water quality monitoring stations along the Portneuf were measured for dissolved oxygen and water temperature from 2009 to 2014 as part of water quality assessments by the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality...

The Fish and Wildlife Service currently uses nets and electrofishing as part of their early detection and monitoring program in the Upper Illinois River for bigheaded carps. This dataset contains the sampling data and sampling attributes (such as water parameters for electrofishing or net length for gills). The sampling data is the binary presence/absence observations. This is that data...

The Katahdin Woods and Waters (KAWW) National Monument TFG Unit Vegetation Mapping Project was initiated in the fall of 2022 by a grant through the USGS Natural Resource Preservation Program (NRPP) to classify and map vegetation types of the TFG Unit, thereby providing resource managers and biological researchers with useful baseline vegetation information. These data provide the...

As part of Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) Program, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is conducting a study to understand what environmental factors are contributing to the failure of floodplain forests to regenerate. Broken Forest Canopy Identified by Lidar data sets: As part of Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR), the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is...

This data release contains data inputs for the Metapopulation Integral Projection Model (MetaIPM). These inputs include demographic rate data (such as fish growth) and movement rate data (such as fish movement across river pools). The data are designed to be downloaded by a Shiny Application (point-and-click version of the model). Each species and scenario requires its own data inputs...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) collected aerial imagery over the Atlantic Ocean using the Safe, Efficient, Aerial Bird Detection (SEABirD) platform. These images are taken over the Atlantic Ocean using a seven-camera array optimized for high resolution imagery. Published imagery are 3-band (RGB) 8-bit JPG files and are not georeferenced or orthorectified. Each image contains...

We performed short-term lab bioassays with nutrient enrichment on field-collected, naturally occurring phytoplankton communities. Naturally-occurring phytoplankton communities were collected from Kabetogama Lake (Minnesota, USA), which is a large lake located within Voyageurs National Park. Two experiments were performed in 2021 and two in 2022. Phytoplankton were raised in the lab under

The U.S. Geological Survey Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center collected semi-continuous data from water quality and pressure sensors at four shallow locations in the impounded portion of Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River and one location upstream near Savanna, IL between late May and early September 2024. This dataset includes high-frequency conductivity, salinity, total...