Effects of road decommissioning on stream habitat characteristics in the South Fork Flathead River, Montana

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 553-561

  McCaffery, Magnus ^a   Switalski, T Adam ^b   Eby, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b Wildlands CPR   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FIELD SURVEY; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; REGROWTH; ROAD; STREAM; SURVIVAL;

MONTANA; NORTH AMERICA; SOUTH FORK FLATHEAD RIVER; UNITED STATES;

KATHETOSTOMA GIGANTEUM;

EID: 34250169066     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-134.1     Document Type: Article

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