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03/15/2001 14:45 FAX 6514528940 MENDOTA HGTS MN 16002 <br /> Dakota County(MN)Wetiand Assessment, <br /> Monitoring,and Awareness Project, <br /> • Revision 4.June 5, 1998 <br /> Page 7 of 50 <br /> Environmental measurements to be performed: Two or more samples, one by citizens and <br /> the other by technical experts, of invertebrates and vegetation will be taken for the thirty-two city <br /> wetlands. One sample will be taken by citizen groups at the Minnesota Zoo. Identification <br /> e omit group an a articular <br /> i will e t e famil level depending on the taxonomic d th <br /> typically be mad o the y ep g gr p p <br /> metric. In some cases genus will be used and in some cases, order_ <br /> • Invertebrates <br /> - Proportion of Corixidae (water boatmen)in a bottle trap in relation to the total number of <br /> aquatic beetles and all bugs in the sample. <br /> Number of kinds of leeches in pan and bottle trap samples. <br /> Tadpoles or larval salamanders in bottle trap or dipnet samples. <br /> Total number of mayflies plus the number of kinds of caddisflies; plus presence of <br /> fingernail clams and dragonflies. <br /> Number of kinds of dragonflies and damselfy nymphs in dipnet samples. <br /> Number of kinds of snails. <br /> Number of taxa above plus the number of crustaceans plus the presence of Chaoborus. <br /> • Vegetation <br /> - Total number of forbs, woodies,and grass-like plants. <br /> - Total number of mosses, lichens, liverworts, Chara, and Mitella. <br /> - Total number of grass-like plants, <br /> - Cover of sedge (Cares). <br /> • = Presence of submergents (Utricularia or Cerarephyllum). <br /> Cover of"Aquatic Guild"plants_ <br /> Cover of plants with persistent standing latter. <br /> Project schedule: <br /> Activity/Metric Citizen volunteers Wetland technical experts <br /> Number of wetlands sampled 36 depressional wetlands 32 depressional wetlands <br /> using citizen protocol, using citizen protocol,nine of <br /> reference site will be which will also use the more <br /> monitored twice by different technical protocol and the <br /> citizen volunteers citizen data will be extracted <br /> from technical data <br /> Invertebrates: Training June 20, 1998 May 13, 1999, June 20, 1998 <br /> Invertebrates: Sampling June 21- July 3, 1998 June 14—July 10, 1998 <br /> Invertebrates- Analysis June 23 —July 10, 1998 June 23 —August 28, 1998 <br /> Vegetation: Training July 11, 1998 May 13, 1998,July 11, 1998 <br /> Vegetation: Sampling July 12—31, 1998 July 7—31, 1998 <br /> Vegetation: Analysis July 12—August 14, 1998 July 7—August 14, 1998 <br /> Fig. 1. Project Schedule_ Description of the number of wetlands to be sampled,training and sampling dates <br /> for citizen reams and technical experts. <br />