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A Synthesis Of Aquatic Science For Management Of Lakes Mead And Mohave: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1381, Michael R. Rosen, Kent Turner, Steven L. Goodbred, Jennell M. Miller Jan 2012

A Synthesis Of Aquatic Science For Management Of Lakes Mead And Mohave: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1381, Michael R. Rosen, Kent Turner, Steven L. Goodbred, Jennell M. Miller

Public Lands Institute Publications

Lake Mead provides many significant benefits that have made the modern development of the southwestern United States possible. The lake also provides important aquatic habitat for a wide variety of wildlife including endangered species, and a diversity of world-class water based recreational opportunities for more than 8 million visitors annually. It is one of the most extensively used and intensively monitored reservoirs in the United States. The largest reservoir by volume in the United States, it supplies critical storage of water supplies for more than 25 million people in three western states (California, Arizona, and Nevada). Storage within Lake Mead …


Technical Assistance For The Revision Of The Conservation Agreement For The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area: Final Closeout Report, Public Lands Institute Jul 2011

Technical Assistance For The Revision Of The Conservation Agreement For The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area: Final Closeout Report, Public Lands Institute

Public Lands Institute Publications

Technical Assistance for the revision of the Conservation Agreement for the Spring Mountains National Recreation Area was cooperative agreement between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Board of Regents of the Nevada System of Higher Education. The cooperator was the Public Lands Institute (PLI) of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) working directly with staff of the USFWS Southern Nevada Field Office and the U.S. Forest Service’s (USFS) Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest. The mechanism of cooperation was a Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) Task Agreement. The purpose of the project was to provide technical assistance to the …


Interagency Management Action Plan (I-Map) For Quagga Mussels, David Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger Aug 2009

Interagency Management Action Plan (I-Map) For Quagga Mussels, David Wong, Shawn Gerstenberger

Public Lands Institute Publications

Following the discovery of quagga mussels in Lake Mead, a variety of agencies, including National Park Service (NPS) Lake Mead National Recreational Area (LMNRA), Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), U.S. Fish and Wildlife (USFWS), Clean Water Coalition (CWC), and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) have set up monitoring programs to evaluate and gain information to help minimize the impacts or potential impacts of quagga mussels to their facilities and lake ecology. Current monitoring activities and anticipated environmental impacts are depicted in Figures 1 and 2. While the agencies have worked closely and …