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Rebecca Esselman, executive director of the Huron River Watershed Council, takes samples and measurements with her team along various points of the river as part of their monitoring. Changing weather patterns can effect species such as smallmouth bass, which depend on water temperature to spur spawning. Unusually early flooding and warm-cold cycles put that in danger. “If that happens one year, the system can handle it,” Esselman said. “If it happens maybe twice in 10 years, I'm sure the system can handle it. But if it's starting to happen more and more frequently, we're going to see longer term declines in our fish populations ... .".
Photos by Scott Thompson/Crain's Detroit Business
Monitoring habitats and species
