Table 1.
Characteristics of the catchments above the smallmouth bass M. dolomieu collection sites
| Site | Human populationa | Catchment area (ha) | Stream length (m)b | Stream orderc | Percent land coverd | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developed | Agriculture | Forest | |||||
| Gauley River | 1,157 | 18,698.1 | 133,458.6 | 3 | 3.9 | 0.5 | 95.1 |
| South Branch Petersburg | 15,067 | 219,944.4 | 1,584,013.9 | 7 | 3.8 | 16.4 | 79.4 |
| South Branch Moorefield | 20,940 | 315,074.0 | 2,379,186.9 | 5 | 3.9 | 15.2 | 80.4 |
| South Branch Springfield | 29,003 | 382,132.1 | 3,105,675.1 | 7 | 3.8 | 15.2 | 80.4 |
| Shenandoah North Fork | 67,426 | 241,004.3 | 1,227,982.3 | 5 | 6.6 | 32.7 | 60.2 |
| Shenandoah South Fork | 187,303 | 336,559.1 | 1,835,355.3 | 5 | 11.1 | 35.9 | 52.6 |
| Shenandoah Mainstem | 316,759 | 734,170.1 | 3,739,595.0 | 6 | 9.2 | 32.6 | 57.6 |
| Conococheague Creek (lower) | 100,239 | 145,446.0 | 1,117,871.5 | 5 | 12.4 | 50.3 | 35.8 |
aEstimated number of people from the US Census 2000, apportioned by percent of census tract in catchment
bMeters of stream from National Hydrography Dataset + dataset
cStrahler stream order, maximum
dFrom national land cover data 2001 database