{"id":1338,"date":"2015-02-02T23:10:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1338"},"modified":"2015-02-02T23:28:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T23:28:47","slug":"help-our-water-sampling-is-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lrctu.org\/?p=1338","title":{"rendered":"Help!  Our Water Sampling is Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Your help is needed in 2015. Our Acid Deposition Sampling Program that began in 1993 will add another sample route on the Tennessee side of the Park (Middle Prong Little Pigeon River).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Why is the Program Important?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Because of our data and other air policy, over the past three decades, TVA and other eastern U.S. power producers, have decreased sulfate deposition by 57%\u00a0and\u00a0nitrate deposition has decreased by\u00a023%.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">However, there is a puzzle to be solved. Stream acid levels at most elevations have not improved as expected and brook trout continue to lose habitat, so more study is needed.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">Air regulators and policy makers would like to see additional stream response data across the park and how park plants and animals respond to the improving air emissions.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><b>Why is Another Sample Route Being Added?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">To solve the puzzle, NPS plant, soil, and stream experts are working together and expanding their joint efforts to collocate sites around the park as well sample all elevations. This means we are setting up an additional watershed where soil, plant and stream samples are taken.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\">How Do I Sign Up to Learn More and To Help?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">A meeting has been scheduled for Saturday, February 28, 2015 at 9:00 AM at Park Headquarters.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">To sign up contact Charlie Chmielewski at <a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"mailto:charlieflyfish@gmail.com\">charlieflyfish@gmail.com<\/a> mobile phone 865-661-7325.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">A free breakfast will be provided, so please notify Charlie ahead of the meeting so enough food will be available.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small; color: #000000;\">At the meeting, we will provide up to date data results, show the routes, conduct training, organize the sample teams, and develop the schedule for the next year of sampling.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Field &amp; Stream maga<\/span>zine recognized Charlie Chmieliewski<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The recognition is a result of his devoted work in preserving and restoring native brook trout in GSMNP. Congratulate him the next time you see him. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your help is needed in 2015. Our Acid Deposition Sampling Program that began in 1993 will add another sample route on the Tennessee side of the Park (Middle Prong Little Pigeon River). Why is the Program Important? 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