Acid rain studies in the Bridger and Fitzpatrick Wildernesses

✍ Scribed by Alan F. Galbraith; S. A. Stuart

• Book ID: 104754544
• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 33 KB
• Volume: 12
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-6369
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00394810

✦ Synopsis

For the past five years the Forest Service -USDA has conducted studies to determine the extent of and susceptibility to acid deposition and other air pollutants in the Bridget and Fitzpatrick Wildernesses, located in the Wind River Mountain, Wyoming. These wildernesses contain approximately 2000 alpine and subalpine lakes which support some of the finest trout fisheries found in the continental United States. Due to the granitic nature of the lake watersheds the natural acid neutralizing capacity is severely limited. Furthermore, these wildernesses lie downwind of significant industrial and metropolitan sources of pollution. The overall monitoring effort has included studies of selected stream and lake chemistry, precipitation chemistry, macroinvertebrate and zooplankton indicators, specific lichen and moss biomonitors, lakebed sediment analysis, soil physical and chemical properties, and air quality measurements. This paper will summarize the results of these studies.