A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Leading Creek Watershed
A Comprehensive Watershed Management Plan for the Leading Creek Watershed A collaboration of the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District and residents of the Leading Creek Watershed Leading Creek at River Mile 10.3 January 2005 Prepared by Cynthia Bauers Leading Creek Watershed Coordinator 33101 Hiland Road Pomeroy, Ohio 45769 Acknowledgments The Leading Creek Watershed Management Plan would not have been possible without financial and technical assistance from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources- Division of Mineral Resources Management, and Division of Soil and Water. A special thanks to the following people who have spent time researching, writing, collecting and analyzing data, and assisting with public outreach activities: Staff of the Meigs Soil and Water Conservation District Mike Duhl, District Conservationist Opal Dyer, Program Administrator (retired) Jim Freeman, Wildlife Specialist/Watershed Coordinator Mike Gosnell, Watershed Technician Steve Jenkins, Program Administrator Vicki Morrow, Assistant Administrator Jenny Ridenour, Education Coordinator Barb Flowers, Division of Mineral Resources Management Mary Ann Borch, Division of Mineral Resources Management Nancy Seger, Division of Mineral Resources Management Dan Imhoff, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency Rob Hamilton, Division of Soil and Water Jerry Iles, Ohio State University Extension Scott Miller and JB Hoy, Ohio University- ILGARD Mike Greenlee, Division of Wildlife Bill Bosworth, American Electric Power (retired) Bill Kurey, United States Fish and Wildlife Service Watershed community members I would especially like to thank the Meigs Soil and Water Board of Supervisors, Pauline Atkins, Bill Baer, Joe Bolin, Marco Jeffers, and Dick Sterrett, for giving me the opportunity to do something I love (playing in creeks) and for providing support even when I was working on things that were unfamiliar and may have even seemed strange.
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