Fish Inventory Site FSH0208A32

Site Comments: Left bank tributary of Drift River. Waterfall 100 meters high approximately 1 mile upstream from sampling site. Dead cottonwood forest-roots buried in sediment.

Project Supervisor: Cecil Rich, Alaska Department of Fish and Game — Anchorage, AK
Observers: Joe Buckwalter, Michael Anderson

Station Characteristics

Water Temperature: 13.6° C	Conductivity: 34.0 μS/cm	Stream Stage: Medium
Water Color: Clear	Turbidity:	Stream Gradient: 1.0%
Qualitative Velocity: Medium	48 hr. Precipitation/Runoff: None/Trace
Substrates: Silt/Clay, Gravel
Channel Dimensions:   (OHW) (Wetted) Stream Width: 15.0 m 10.7 m Thalweg Depth: 0.85 m	Rosgen Channel Classification: (C6) Low gradient, meandering, point-bar, riffle/pool, alluvial channels with broad, well-defined floodplains.
Visit Comments: None

Vegetation Classification

		Left Bank	Right Bank
Distance From OHW(m)	0-5
	5-10
	10-20
	20-30

Fish Sampling Effort

Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (A)
EF Time(s): 131		Efficiency:
Channel Type:

Fish Observations

Species: juvenile/adult Dolly Varden		Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 10	Fish Measured: 5	Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 40 Max: 113 Mean: 79
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (10)
Species: juvenile coho salmon		Life History: Anadromous
Total Fish Observed: 8	Fish Measured: 4	Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 25 Max: 45 Mean: 36
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (8)
Species: juvenile rainbow trout		Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 4	Fish Measured: 2	Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 40 Max: 62 Mean: 51
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (4)
Species: juvenile/adult sculpin-unspecified		Life History: Unknown
Total Fish Observed: 5	Fish Measured: 2	Passage Barrier:
Fork Lengths (mm) Min: 88 Max: 98 Mean: 93
Collected/Observed by Gear Type: Backpack Electrofisher (5)

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