Sparks, R.E. 1995. Value and need for ecosystem management of large rivers and 

 their floodplalns. Bloscience 45:168-182. 



Sparks, R.E. 1995. Environmental effects. Pages 132-162 in S.A. Changnon, 

 editor. The great flood of 1993. University Corporation for Atmospheric Research 

 (UCAR) and Westvlew Press. 



II. Technical Papers (presenter In bold) 



Koel, T.M. and R.E. Sparks. 1999. Interannual variation in catches of young-of-year 

 fish correlated with hydrology of the Upper Mississippi River System. 47'^ Annual 

 Meeting of the North American Benthologlcal Society, May 23-24, Duluth, Minnesota. 



Koel, T.M. 1999. Changes In fish community structure: effects of hydrologlcal 

 variability in the Upper Mississippi River System. Presented to the Illinois Natural 

 History Survey, Center for Aquatic Ecology, Havana Field Station Director Search 

 Committee and Senior Staff, March 24, 1999. 



Koel, T.M. 1998. Spatial and temporal variability of channel catfish populations in 

 the Upper Mississippi River System. Illinois Department of Natural Resources 

 LTRMP field station biannual retreat, December 15, Dickson Mounds, Illinois. 



Koel, T.M. 1998. Long Term Resource Monitoring Program Showcase: analysis of 

 catfish catch. Environmental Management Program Coordinating Committee, Fall 

 Quarterly Meeting, November 19-20, Rock Island, Illinois. 



Koel, T.M. and K.D. Blodgett. 1998. Fish-environment associations: effects of inter- 

 annual hydrologlcal variability on fish populations of the Illinois River waterway, 

 1957-1997. Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee, Fish Technical 

 Section Annual Fall Meeting, September 15-17, Dubuque, Iowa. 



Koel, T.M., K.S. Irons, T.M. O'Hara, K.D. Blodgett, and R.E. Sparks. 1998. 

 Changes in fish community structure: effects of hydrologlcal variability in the Upper 

 Mississippi River System. 128th Annual Meeting of the American Fisheries Society. 

 August 23-27, Hartford, Connecticut. 



Koel, T.M., T.M. Mihuc, R.E. Sparks, and K.D. Blodgett. Upper Mississippi River 

 System status and trends report. Fish species-environment relationships: LTRMP 

 data analysis and preliminary results. 54th Annual Meeting of the Upper Mississippi 

 River Conservation Committee, Moline, Illinois, 17-19 March 1998. 



Blodgett, K.D. and T.M. Mihuc. Decision support using Long Term Resource 

 Monitoring Program component data and supplementary data on the Illinois River. 

 54th Annual Meeting of the Upper Mississippi River Conservation Committee, 

 Moline, Illinois, 17-19 March 1998. 



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