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Enter the category for this item: White Sturgeon,Spawning,Sediment

Barton Gary. 2004. Characterization of Channel Substrate and Changes in Suspended-Sediment Transport and Channel Geometry in White Sturgeon Spawning Habitat in the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, Following the Closure of Libby Dam. US Geological Survey.
Enter the category for this item: Morphology,Sediment

Barton, Gary J.; Edward H. Moran; and Charles Berenbrock. 2004. Surveying Cross Sections of the Kootenai River Between Libby Dam, Montana, and Kootenay Lake, British Columbia, Canada . US Geological Survey.
Enter the category for this item: White Sturgeon,Spawning,Critical Habitat,Modeling,Sediment

Barton, Gary; Richard McDonald; Jonathan Nelson; and Randal L. Dinehart. 2005. Simulation of Flow and Sediment Mobility Using a Multidimensional Flow Model for the White Sturgeon Critical-Habitat Reach, Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. US Geological Survey.
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Barton, Gary; Richard McDonald; Jonathan Nelson; Charles Berenbrock; Mary Donato; Pete VanMetre; and Barbara Mahler. 2006. Altered Dynamics Of Kootenai River White Sturgeon Spawning Habitat And Flow Modeling. USGS
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Berenbrock, Charles and James P. Bennett. 2005. Simulation of Flow and Sediment Transport in the White Sturgeon Spawning Habitat of the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. USGS
Enter the category for this item: White Sturgeon,Spawning

Berenbrock, Charles. 2005. Simulation of Hydraulic Characteristics in the White Sturgeon Spawning Habitat of the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho. USGS
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Berenbrock, Charles. 2006. Simulations of Hydraulic Characteristics for an Upstream Extension of the White Sturgeon Habitat of the Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho—A Supplement to Scientific Investigations Report 2005-5110. USGS
Enter the category for this item: Hydropower Operations,Sediment

Burke, Michael. 2006. Linking Hydropower Operation to Modified Fluvial Processes Downstream of Libby Dam, Kootenai river, U. S. A. and Canada. University of Idaho
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Kock, Tobias J.; James L. Congleton; and Paul J. Anders. 2006. Effects of Sediment Cover on Survival and Development of White Sturgeon Embryos. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 26:134–141, 2006
Enter the category for this item: Modeling,Spawning,White Sturgeon,Sediment

McDonald, Richard; Gary Barton; Jonathan Nelson; and Vaughn Paragamian. 2006. Modeling Hydraulic And Sediment Transport Processes In White Sturgeon Spawning Habitat On The Kootenai River, Idaho. USGS
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Paragamian, V. L. and V. D. Wakkinen. 2002. Temporal distribution of Kootenai River white sturgeon spawning events and the effect of flow and temperature. Journal of Applied Ichthyology 18 (4-6), 430-438
Enter the category for this item: Biological Opinion,White Sturgeon,Bull Trout

USFWS. 2006. Fish And Wildlife Service Biological Opinion Regarding The Effects Of Libby Dam Operations On The Kootenai River White Sturgeon Bull Trout And Kootenai Sturgeon Critical Habitat (1901f0279r) . USFWS
Enter the category for this item: Critical Habitat,White Sturgeon

USFWS. 2008. Critical Habitat Revised Designation for the Kootenai River Population of the White Sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus); Final Rule. Federal Register
Enter the category for this item: Alluvial Fans,Fish Passage,Tributaries

Zelch, Karen. 2003. Aggrading Alluvial Fans and their Impact on Fish Passage in Tributaries of the Kootenai River, Idaho, and Montana. University of Idaho
Enter the category for this item: Morphology,Hydropower Operations,Sediment

Burke, M., K. Jorde, and J. M. Buffington. 2009. Application of a hierarchical framework for assessing environmental impacts of dam operation: Changes in streamflow, bed mobility and recruitment of riparian trees in a western North American river. Journal of Environmental Management 90 (2009) S224–S236
Enter the category for this item: Morphology,Critical Habitat,White Sturgeon,Sediment

Barton, G.J., Weakland, R.J., Fosness, R.L.F., and Williams, M.L. 2010. Characterizing substrate and morphology of the Kootenai River white sturgeon critical habitat, Boundary County, Idaho: Analysis for ecosystem restoration: abstr. in proceed. of Joint 9th Federal Interagency Sedimentation and 4th Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling conference, 12 p.
Enter the category for this item: Flow,Critical Habitat

Barton, G.J., Hoffman, G., McDonald, R.R., and Nelson, J.M. 2010. Kootenai River white sturgeon critical habitat with free flowing and backwater conditions, Boundary County, Idaho: evaluation of water depth and flow velocity during 2006-09 spawning seasons: proceeding in the Joint 9th Federal Interagency Sedimentation and 4th Federal Interagency hydrologic modeling conference, 12 p.
Enter the category for this item: Sediment,White Sturgeon,Critical Habitat,Sediment

Barton, G.J., Weakland, R.J., Fosness, R.L., Cox, S.E., and Williams, M.L. Approved in 2011. Geohydrologic sections and sediment chemistry for Kootenai River White Sturgeon habitat restoration project, Boundary County, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5006, 140 p.
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Burke, M., K. Jorde, J.M. Buffington, J.H. Braatne, and R. Benjakar. 2006. Spatial distribution of impacts to channel bed mobility due to flow regulation, Kootenai River, USA In: Proceedings of the Eighth Federal Interagency Sedimentation Conference; 2006 April 2-6; Reno, NV. [Place of publication unknown]: [U.S. Subcommitte on Sedimentation]. 9 p.
Enter the category for this item: Sediment,Tributaries

Holnbeck, S.R., and S.M. Lawlor. 2008. Observations on the sediment dynamics of selected tributaries to the Kootenai River, Montana, Spring 2008 [abs.]: in Water Sustainability: Challenges for Montana, Proceedings of the Montana Section of the American Water Resources Association 25th Annual Conference, October 2-3, 2008, Big Sky, MT, p.23-24
Enter the category for this item: White Sturgeon,Flow

Barton, G.J., McDonald, R.R., and Nelson, J.M. 2009. Simulation of streamflow using a multidimensional flow model for white sturgeon habitat, Kootenai River near Bonners Ferry, Idaho—A supplement to Scientific Investigations Report 2005–5230: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009-5026, 34 p.
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Czuba, C.R., and Barton, G.J. 2011. Updated one-dimensional hydraulic model of the Kootenai River, Idaho—A supplement to Scientific Investigations Report 2005–5110: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011–5128, 36 p.
Enter the category for this item: Sediment,Flow,White Sturgeon,Critical Habitat

Fosness, Ryan L. and Williams, Marshall L. 2010. Sediment Characteristics and Transport in the Kootenai River White Sturgeon Critical Habitat near Bonners Ferry, Idaho, in Proceedings to the 2nd Joint Federal Interagency Conference, Las Vegas, NV, June 27 - July 1, 2010.
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Fosness, R.L., and Williams, M.L. 2009. Sediment characteristics and transport in the Kootenai River white sturgeon critical habitat near Bonners Ferry, Idaho: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2009–5228, 40 p.
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Kruse, G. 2005. Shorty’s Island (Kootenai River) Sediment Core Analysis Report: PCBs, Organochlorine Pesticides and Metals Analysis. Report prepared for Kootenai Tribe of Idaho, Bonners Ferry, ID. 17 p.
Enter the category for this item: Sediment, Critical Habitat, White Sturgeon

McDonald, R., Nelson, J., Paragamian, V., and Barton, G. 2010. Modeling the effect of flow and sediment transport on white sturgeon spawning habitat in the Kootenai River, Idaho: Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, v. 136 no.
Enter the category for this item: Flow, Critical Habitat, White Sturgeon, Spawning

Paragamian, V.L., McDonald, R.R., Nelson, J.M., and Barton, G.. 2009. Kootenai River velocities, depth, and white sturgeon spawning site selection - a mystery unraveled?. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. v. 25 , p. 640–646. (on-line abstract of journal article
Enter the category for this item: Morphology

Tetra Tech. 2004. Kootenai River Geomorphic Assessment - Final Report. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, Seattle, WA.
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Kootenai Tribe of Idaho
P.O. Box 1269
Bonners Ferry, ID 83805
Phone: 208-267-3519
