Accession Number:
ADA297676
Title:
Floodplain Management Assessment for the Upper Mississippi River, Lower Missouri River and Major Tributaries. Appendix C: Environmental Resources Inventory.
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Corporate Author:
BURNS AND MCDONNELL KANSAS CITY MO
Personal Author(s):
Report Date:
1995-06-01
Pagination or Media Count:
437.0
Abstract:
The purpose of this report is to provide an inventory of the environmental resources within the floodplains of the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Rivers and selected tributaries. The study area has been divided by river beaches. The main objectives of the inventory are establish a 1993 base-line condition of the floodplains by characterizing associated environmental resources including soils, vegetation, wetlands, lakes, fish and wildlife, endangered species, important habitats, unique ecosystems and plant communities describe the effects of the 1993 flood and provide a foundation for projecting the effects and implications of alternative floodplain management policies on these resources. AN
Descriptors:
- *NATURAL RESOURCES
- *ECOSYSTEMS
- *MISSISSIPPI RIVER
- *MISSOURI RIVER
- *FLOOD PLAINS
- DATA BASES
- POLICIES
- MANAGEMENT PLANNING AND CONTROL
- SOILS
- INVENTORY
- ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
- WETLANDS
- ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
- VEGETATION
- HABITATS
- FISHERIES
- ENDANGERED SPECIES
- LAND USE
- FLOODING
- AREA COVERAGE
- WILDLIFE
- LAKES
- BASINS(GEOGRAPHIC)
- RECREATION
- IOWA
- PONDS
- STREAMS
- PLANTS(BOTANY)
- AQUATIC ANIMALS
- DAMS
- MINNESOTA
- NEBRASKA
Subject Categories:
- Ecology
- Geography
- Hydrology, Limnology and Potamology