Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative, Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), Midwest Region, is soliciting proposals to conduct field assessments of aquatic barriers and fish passability in tributaries in Lake Superior, Huron, Erie, and Ontario watersheds. Data collected on dams will be incorporated into an already developed barrier database and will enable improved estimates of aquatic barrier removal costs, cumulative passability within watersheds, and infrastructure maintenance challenges. By fall 2017, researchers at, and cooperators with, the University of Wisconsin-Madison will have completed dam assessments for the entire Lake Michigan watershed. The desire is to have a comprehensive assessment and common dam data for the entire Great Lakes basin. As such, any proposal must compliment and collect data comparable to the Lakes Michigan assessment to be incorporated into the existing barrier database.