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Concluding Activity
Prepare a report that contains the following headings:
1.Historical Review
- Provide information on what the watercourse was once like.
Include your map and research results (from written and oral
sources).
2. Current Conditions
- Provide information on what the watercourse is like now. Include
your map, land-use forms, and stream survey forms.
3. Changes and Problems
- Summarize what your group considers to be the watercourse's
problems and their causes.
4. Recommendations
- Provide some ideas on how the watercourse can be improved
(clean-ups etc.). If you want to get some ideas see the section
Enhancing Your Watercourse. In order
to get ideas, break your group into small discussion sessions
and brainstorm. Four or five people putting their heads together
can come up with a list of things. |
5. Resources
- Summarize what you and your group have already put into the
project (time, money, etc.) and what resources you will be able
to provide for rehabilitation.
Once your report has been completed you are ready to create
a rehabilitation plan with habitat officials. Probably you have
been in contact with them already. |
Do not be intimidated
by the task of reporting.
A report does not have to be complicated to be useful.
Get someone from the community who is good at putting a report
together (municipal official, teacher) to help you, or ask a
high school class to do it as a project. |
Let them know you are now
ready to sit down and make plans. Before you begin clean-up
or enhancement activities, make sure you read the next Section
(Before You Begin Restoration).
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Report Outline |
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1. Cover Page - Name of
Group
- Name, address, phone of contact person
- Watercourse reported on, location
- Date of report
2. Background
- Brief description of your group, and how you came together
- Brief description of the watercourse, and why you chose
to study it
3. Historical Review
- Map of how the watercourse used to look
- Oral History Reports
- Other research (old maps, photographs)
4.
Changes and Problems
- Map of how it looks now
- Survey results
- Problems and their causes
5. Habitat assessment, the limiting factors
- An assessment, reach by reach if necessary, to highlight
all the bottlenecks and problems
6.
Recommendations
- What you would like to do
7. Resources
- How many people you have
- How much time you have
- How many resources you have (equipment, money etc.)
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