RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FUTURE MONITORING 



The monitoring study should be continued as modified (DNRC 1981), and 

 work should continue toward selection of a suitable control area. 

 Preliminary study indicates that the section of the Kootenai River below 

 Troy, as well as that part of the river between Libby and the proposed Libby 

 Reregulation Project site, may be the best potential control areas, although 

 they are by no means ideal. During the winter and spring 1982 monitoring 

 studies, an effort should be made to investigate bighorn sheep use of the 

 Sheppard property. This will be especially important if the winter of 1981- 

 82 is more severe than 1980-81. The monitoring contract should be amended to 

 include a late February-early March field trip to further investigate the use 

 of the Sheppard property by bighorn sheep. 



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