Related information
Normative flow studies

Find out more about efforts to link flow regimes to ecological parameters and native species sustainability in other parts of the United States and around the globe:

The natural flow regime: a paradigm for conservation and restoration of river ecosystems (external link, originally published in Bioscience magazine)

The Water Center, University of Washington (external link)

The Nature Conservancy's Freshwater Initiative (external link)

Missouri River Natural Flow Regime analysis (external link)

"Return to the River" (external link, Northwest Power Planning Council)

Instream Flow Council (external link)

Center for Ecohydraulics Research, University of Idaho Boise (external link)

Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology (Australia - external link)

For information about the Normative Flow Studies, please contact Curtis DeGasperi, Hydrologist, WLR Science, Monitoring and Data Management Section.