PRICE COUNTY: Paleoecological Analysis of Butternut Lake
The Price County Land Conservation Department will sponsor a project involving the collection of a sediment core from a deep area in Butternut Lake's main basin, by Paul Garrison - Wisconsin DNR Research and USGS. This grant pays for the collection and analysis of the core. It is cost shared with the USGS which will take the report written by WDNR and incorporate the results into a final USGS report, on Butternut Lake done under planning grant LPT198.
Goals:
1. Determine fluctuations in lake water quality since the onset of European settlement.
2. Determine changes in deposition rates of various constituents in the sediment core that reflect changes in Butternut Lake's watershed loading to the lake.
3. Evaluate the inferred long-term water quality fluctuations in relation to recent and current lake water quality and current phosphorus loading to the lake.
| Project Type
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LAKE_GRANT
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Large Scale Lake Planning
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| Project ID
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LPL-975-05
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Year Started
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2004
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| Status
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COMPLETE
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Activities
- Data analysis, report production
- Lakes Planning Grant
- Monitor Paleocore
- Project Deliverable
Final Report and Products