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The Copper Lake buffer zone study : pre-harvest conditions of the aquatic habitat

This is the second report from a project conceived to conduct region-specific research on the benefit of providing buffer strips in riparian zones to protect fish and wildlife resources and water quality in insular Newfoundland. The research is designed to quantify environmental perturbations arising from forest harvesting operations and to assess the ability to ameliorate these perturbations by providing an unharvested strip of varying width along riparian zones. The report outlines the physical and biotic conditions in the Copper Lake watershed before forest harvesting and includes a general description of the study area and survey streams before the onset of forest operations. Information is provided on hydrology, water quality, stream temperatures, fine sediment in streams, woody debris dynamics, benthos and brook trout populations, and movement of brook trout between lakes and streams of the watershed and within streams.

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