Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund 2012-2013 Request for Proposals (RFP) 001-A ENRTF ID: Project Title: Sustaining Lakes in a Changing Environment Phase 2 A. Fisheries & Wildlife Research Topic Area: Total Project Budget: $ 1,411,871 Proposed Project Time Period for the Funding Requested: 3 yrs, July 2013 - June 2016 Other Non-State Funds: $ 0 Summary: SLICE Phase 2 will complete the process of developing whole systems monitoring and models of MN lakes to allow managers to better evaluate actions for clean water and productive fisheries. Name: Donald Pereira Sponsoring Organization: MN DNR Address: 500 Lafayette Rd, Box 20 St. Paul MN 55155 Telephone Number: (651) 259-5231 Email don.pereira@state.mn.us Web Address http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/fisheries/slice/index.html Location Statewide Region: County Name: Statewide City / Township: _____ Funding Priorities _____ Multiple Benefits _____ Outcomes _____ Knowledge Base _____ Extent of Impact _____ Innovation _____ Scientific/Tech Basis _____ Urgency _____ Capacity Readiness _____ Leverage _____ Employment _______ TOTAL ______% 05/03/2012 Page 1 of 6
Environm ment and Nat tural Resou rces Trust Fu und (ENRTF ) 2012 ‐ 201 13 Main Prop posal PROJEC CT TITLE: S E): Phase 2 Sustaining Lak kes in a Chan nging Environ nment (SLICE I. PR OJECT STA ATEMENT A As Minnesota’ ’s population grows, increa ased demands s are being pl laced on our r resources. Hunting a and fishing re lated activitie es fuel $3.6 bi illion in annu ual expenditur res and a vibr rant Minnesot ta economy demands on e effective and efficient lake e habitat and f fisheries cons servation. Th hanks to the in nitial investmen nts from the E ENTF, multip ple partners’ in n-kind contrib butions, and m motivated citi izen voluntee ers, DNR Fish heries success sfully launche ed and is near r completion o of a 4-yr pilot t effort in 24 sentinel lakes s (SLICE P Phase 1). Sent tinel systems are specific e ecosystems (i in this case la akes) chosen f for focused monitorin ng in order to better capture e important ch hanges or tren nds through t time, and to g give us the informatio on to better un nderstand the e mechanisms s to explain th hose changes. Thus, in Pha ase 1, we hav ve establishe ed a suite of 2 24 lakes acros s Minnesota t that capture th he full breadt th of the basic c conditions ( (e.g. fertility, c climate) that s shape our lake e resources, a and in large pa art determine the goods an nd services (e .g. fishing an nd water recre eation) that ou ur lakes provi ide for our cit tizenry. Phas se 1 identified d baseline conditions s in a wide va ariety of Minn nesota lake ty ypes, their init tial responses s to various en nvironmental l stressors, and outlined some expecta ations for futu ure conditions s given variou us changing s scenarios. Ph hase 1 also fortui itously (and p perhaps unfor rtunately) gav ve us the oppo ortunity to set t up a rigorou us system to understan nd pending im mpacts from ze ebra mussels following the e invasion of this nasty pes st in Lake Car rlos, near Alex xandria, in 200 09. Phase 1 w will be compl leted in June 2 2013, and we e do not reque est additional funds for that project in n this proposa al. Ph hase 2 (2013 - 2016), prop posed here, w ill take lesson ns learned fro om the first ph hase to develo op and imple ement rigorou us monitoring , modeling, a and reporting p protocols tha at will deliver timely informatio on on lake tre ends, reduce u uncertainty ab bout potential l causes, and r result in more e precise conservat ion approach es. Phase 2 a also includes a applying lake e models to pr redict ecosyst tem impacts o of zebra mus ssels in each T Tier 1 sentine el lake should d they be intro oduced. In or rder to implem ment proactiv ve lake conse ervation meas sures, we mus st acquire info formation abo out baseline ha abitat conditi ons (the past) ), long-term m changes to th hat baseline ( (the present), and models th hat forecast th he risk of var rious impairm ments (the future e). We seek E ENTF suppor rt in the amou unt of approxi imately $1.4 m million to sup pport this wor rk over 3 yea ars, and will h hope for perm manent funds from partner agencies in th he future and for the long- -term. DNR Fish heries, MPCA A,USFS Super rior National Forest, and U USGS propos e a continued d in-kind contributi ion of $657 th housand and a associated equ uipment and i infrastructure e. II. DE SCRIPTION N OF PROJE ECT ACTIVI TIES 1 : Monitorin ng a comprehe ensive suite o f important la ake and water rshed indicato ors in 24 sent inel Activity 1 lakes to g age status and d trends of lak ke health (see e attached ma ap). Bud dget: $ 864,7 780 Several sc cientific and p programmatic c lessons learn ned from the Phase-1 pilot t will be appli ied to this act tivity. Four dedi cated regiona al field staff w will provide re egional exper rtise regarding g status and tr rends of impo ortant water and d fisheries reso ources in each h of the State ’s four major r land types. A A programma atic adaptatio on proposed in Phase 2 is a tiered class sification of se entinel lakes with compreh hensive, inten nsive monitor ring in 8 Tier 1 1 Sentinel Lak kes (see also activity 2) an nd reduced mo onitoring sch edules in the remaining 16 6 sentinel la akes. Thus al ll lakes will re eceive regular rly scheduled d monitoring o of the followi ing parameter rs: Water qua ality (accordin ng to regular MPCA proto ocols), Fisheri ies population n assessments s (primarily g game fish), IBI surveys (inde ex of biotic in ntegrity) of all l fish (thus in ncluding non g game species ) and aquatic rooted pla ants, zooplank kton sampling g, and continu uous water tem mperature mo onitoring. Th he specific frequency y for conducti ing the individ dual monitori ing componen nts will be de etermined from m rigorous statistical analysis soon n to be compl leted as a key y part of the P hase 1 projec ct. In addition n to this, we w will also instal ll automated s sensors in the e eight Tier 1 lakes. Outcome e Completi ion Date 1. Condu uct standard l lake surveys; data QA/QC & database m management Ongoing 2. Inven ntory watershe ed land cover r & uses (inc. BMP’s) & dr rainage featur res and June 30, 2 2015 05/03/2012 Page 2 of 6
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