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Helicopter to help complete watershed data

The Battle River Watershed Alliance will be conducting an important study to produce results that will help better the state of the watershed. From mid-July to mid-August a helicopter will be flying over the area to carry out an aerial videography capture and riparian health and integrity assessment in the watershed.

The Battle River Watershed Alliance will be conducting an important study to produce results that will help better the state of the watershed.

From mid-July to mid-August a helicopter will be flying over the area to carry out an aerial videography capture and riparian health and integrity assessment in the watershed.

Wayne Ungstad, chair, believes that the assessment will be an essential tool to help the BRWA know better how to care for the watershed.

“The state of the watershed is what we are working on,” said Ungstad. “It will bring scientific data that we can use to do a watershed management plan.”

The assessment will complete the work done in the previous year to visually measure the effect human activities have on the Battle River watershed.

“There have been bits and pieces of inventory already done,” said Ungstad. “We finally decided that we should have it all done so that it’s complete. The assessment will help look at the aquatic environment of the Battle River watershed and that data will be something valuable that we can use.”

The aerial videography will allow the BRWA to have a better understanding of the aquatic environment of the watershed and the land and water status along the river.