Appendix C 



LTNITED STATES DEPARTKENT OF AGRICULTURE 



FOREST SERVICE 



Lolo National Forest 



2801 Russell Street 



Missoula, Montana 59801 



Reply to: 2150 Multiple Use Coordination May 31, 1973 



Subject: Project Work Aquatic Resource Monitoring Procedures, 

 Rock Creek Drainage 



To: Rock Creek Advisory Committee 



We concur with the project work aquatic resource monitoring 

 procedures for the Rock Creek drainage as recommended to the 

 Rock Creek Advisory Committee by the Rock Creek Aquatic Re- 

 source Sub-Committee. 



To establish a common understanding as to when monitoring will 

 occur, we must mutually agree on the procedure the Forest 

 Service will use to determine when monitoring will be required. 

 We interpret sentence one in the objects of the proposed out- 

 line to mean, (1) Monitoring will occur when land use activities 

 are prescribed within or directly adjacent to the flood plain 

 of perennial streams, and (2) The decision to monitor or not 

 monitor perennial streams when prescribed land use activities 

 are scheduled outside and not directly adjacent to the flood 

 plain will be based on the merits of each activity and its 

 likelihood of causing aquatic resource degradation. The de- 

 cision as when to monitor perennial streams where land use 

 activities are outside and not directly adjacent to the flood 

 plain will be made by the Aquatic Resource Manager. 



Drainage monitoring for prescribed land activities will be 

 coo^F<^nated with appropriate Federal and State Agencies. 



^ GEORGE M. SMITH 



Forest Supervisor Forest Supervisor 



Lolo National Forest Deerlodge National Forest 



