1. Major Aquatic Data - An Overview Monongahela National Forest
Elkins, West Virginia
August 11, 2009
NHD Stewardship Meeting
Samuel R. Lammie, GISP
Geographer
Monongahela National Forest
200 Sycamore Street
Elkins, WV
Geographic 38º 55’ 43.48” N 79° 58’ 38.51” W
Tel: ext 207, Fax:
“Whiskey is for drinking and water is for fighting”
Mark Twain

2. Hydrologic units (HUC 4th, 5th, 6th)
GIS aquatic datasets
Hydrologic units (HUC 4th, 5th, 6th)
1:24000 scale NHD high resolution stream
reaches
1:4800 scale local resolution
100 ft riparian buffers
Major rivers (and lakes)
The Monongahela National Forest (MNF) contains the headwaters of five major river systems: the Monongahela, Potomac, Greenbrier, Elk, and Gauley Rivers. Twelve river segments on the MNF are considered eligible for potential inclusion in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. There are more than 600 miles of coldwater streams and 350 miles of warm water streams across the Forest. Although the State of West Virginia manages many stream segments as put-and-take trout fisheries with seasonal trout stocking, some estimates indicate that 90 percent of West Virginia’s native brook trout streams occur on the MNF.

3. GIS aquatic datasets
As shapefiles
As file geodatabases

4. ArcGIS Diagrammer

5. Hydrologic units
wbdhu8
wbdhu12

6. Hydrologic units and their relevance to project work
Upper Greenbrier watershed assessment
(north half of Deer Ck-Greenbrier)
Examples of project work:
Non-commercial vegetation mgmt
Road decommissioning and maintenance
Timber harvest units

7. Stream reaches
Comparison of 1:24000
to 1:4800 scale
Fcodes at 1:24000 scale

8. Riparian corridors (100 ft buffers)

9. Major rivers
Potential Wild and Scenic Rivers
Elk River
5 mi segment
designation for study status
using a ¼ mile buffer