Conservation Officer Questionnaire Reports were returned from officers in thirty-six counties, concerning forty streams. The stream length totaled 1, 179 miles and the average width was thirty feet. Many of the streams were fifteen feet or less. The data are listed in table form in Table II. An idea of the stream type can be obtained by noting the game and fish species present and the vegetation along the banks. Various habitat destruction practices included the following: Pollution, timber cutting, clearing for camps, agricultural clearing, flood control clearing, public works-relief projects, siltation, due to former clearing, erosion-washing of banks due to inadequate streambank cover, strip and auger mining, Small Watershed (PL 566) Projects channelization, highway bridge construction, stone quarry operations, gravel operations for rural road surfacing, agricultural drainage and pipeline crossings. Only five of the forty streams reported on had no damage noted. The other thirty-five showed all types of damage and abuse as noted in Table II. |