Download this in PDF formatIn September of 2012, Roaring Fork Conservancy (RFC), in partnership with the Aspen-Sopris Ranger District of the White River National Forest (WRNF), initiated benthic macroinvertebrate sampling at five locations on the Crystal River and six locations in Coal Basin. This effort complimented past and ongoing biomonitoring and water quality monitoring at multiple sites on the Crystal River and in Coal Basin by CDPHE’s Water Quality Control Division (WQCD), WRNF, RFC, and Colorado River Watch volunteers. The results of the biomonitoring conducted during 2012, a dry year, are discussed in this report and are also compared to results from biomonitoring conducted during 2011, a wet year.
RFC would like to thank its partners who contributed to this work in 2012 as part of the Crystal River Watershed−Assessment and Design of Restoration Projects Initiative. The Aspen-Sopris Ranger District of the White River National Forest collected macroinvertebrate data and helped compile this report. Macroinvertebrate sorting, identification and analysis were performed by Timberline Aquatics, Inc., who also assisted with the compilation of this report. Additionally, Roaring Fork Conservancy would like to thank Rose Ann Sullivan of Kootenay Resources, LLC, for her editorial assistance with this document.