What to read after Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota?

This Water Resources Scoping Report identifies and briefly describes the natural resources at voya and the surrounding area, and the significant water-related issues that park management is challenged to address. The report also summarizes the park's existing natural resources program to evaluate current staffing and natural resource management projects and identify some of the park's management needs. Based on the assessment of these natural resource issues, a recommendation and justification to produce a more comprehensive wrmp for voya is presented. Contents are limited to information made available to the authors during the time the report was prepared. Issue specific recommendation(s) previously proposed by nps management via existing voya planning documents rmp) are included in this report. As a result, descriptions of the natural resources and water resource issues vary in detail, and inclusion of issue-related recommendations is inconsistent.

Voya, established in 1975, lies in a hydrologically complex and politically sensitive environment where numerous natural resource issues have arisen over the past several decades. Almost all of these issues relate directly or indirectly to water. The factors contributing to this complex management challenge include: 38% of the park covered by water; voya sharing a common boundary with Canada; surface water elevations strictly regulated for anthropogenic needs; and intense visitor usage.

Water is critical to the natural ecosystem function and economic vitality of the region. The park's natural aquatic ecology has evolved around several glacial events, which transformed the waters and lands in the region to their present condition. There exists both widespread and local threats, which have the potential to degrade voya's water resources. Park water quantity and quality are affected by the water level management regime administered by the International Joint Commission (u C), which regulates thelevels of the four major lakes in voya. Studies in the park have shown that the unnatural fluctuating water levels have resulted in profound negative effects on the aquatic ecology. The presence of cabins, resorts, campsites, houseboat mooring sites, and day-use sites along the park's shoreline has led to loca. Instances of erosion, improper garbage disposal, and improper septic treatment. Additionally, widespread use of powerboats and snowmobiles has resulted in the release of petroleum byproducts into the park's environment.

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