Methods 



Riparian habitat assessments, water quality 

 parameters, fish and macroinvertebrate surveys 

 were performed at 16 lotic (stream) sites and 2 

 lentic (ponded) sites w ithin the Slim Buttes Region 

 of the Little Missouri. Upper South 1 ork Grand and 

 Upper Moreau watersheds (Table I ). Seventeen of 

 these sites had fish, and all had macroinvertebrates. 



Two other visited sites were dry. Three 

 longitudinal sequence stream sites were sampled in 

 the Little Missouri and South Moreau Rivers, while 

 2 sequential sites were visited in the North Fork 

 Moreau. South Fork Grand River and Jones Creek 

 basins (Site #1 of any sequence is the furthest 

 upstream site). 



Table I. Site descriptions for study sites included in the TNC Slim Buttes surveys. AES=Aquatic Ecological 

 System. HUC-^H-digit USGS Hydrologic Unit Code. SSO=Slrahler Stream Order 



HUC 



GPS GPS Elevation SSO 

 Laf Long* («) 



10020006 4S.9067 103.5030 3018 3 



10110201 4S2757 103 647S 3140 4 



10110201 4SS642 103 9S31 3124 4 



10110201 4S77S7 103 886S 3024 4 



10130302 4SS469 103.7800 3064 2 



10130302 4S6389 1033128 2721 4 



10130302 4S6390 103 3232 2730 3 



10130302 4S639S 102 9990 2S81 4 



10130302 4S6877 1034885 3005 1 



10130302 4S7841 103 5007 2885 3 



10130302 458092 1034997 2934 2 



10130304 45 1168 103 2709 2750 4 



10130304 45 1261 1035497 2919 3 



10130304 45.1785 1036508 2968 2 



10130304 45 1885 10363S4 2997 2 



10130304 45 1983 1036238 2995 2 



10130305 45 2697 103 1979 2821 2 

 10130305 45 3132 102 6876 2822 2 

 10130305 453272 1029204 2845 1 

 10130305 45 3575 103 5479 3071 2 

 10130305 45 4436 102 9110 2795 2 



• GPS readings were taken from the top and txjttom of reach, only top GPS reading Is reported here. 



