Opinions please?

[dudley]

More shade?
Cooler rain days?
Less sun/cloudy days
More rain?
Less rain...higher percentage of spring water?
Temps taken earlier in the day?

[Big Bad Wulff]

Oh but a miniscule 'rise' in global temperatures is the fault of one thing. Funny how we can see the effect of temperature on a body of water can possibly be the work of many things but if a few tell us the globe is warming we:
1) believe it unconditionally
2) believe there is only one cause.

[spinner1]

the land around here has been sliced and diced.....

Big farms have been bought out and cut into little...

slices of Heaven for outta state anglers/hunters...

Hence...

Less farming....

This is what i think caused the temperatures to lower.

This farm...or use to be farm....



was owned by Amish....

Was organic Pig Farm 10 years ago.

The new owner from Chicago vists ever 2 weeks in the summer to mow...

and never in the winter.

It is my favorite brook trout stream EVER now.

[Bob Widmaier]

I say it is the cold water elves. They are mad because Al did not include them in his movie.

Dr Bob

[Brad Williamson]

Spinner,

I like your hypothesis. Back in the 70's I was studying stream improvement/reclamation strategies (we don't have cold-water species in KS but I was still interested). One of the best places for finding working strategies seemed to be WI. I remember that with good improvements, average stream temps fell. I would think that similar "improvements" in the watershed could lead to the same result assuming that changes in the watershed might lead to increases in ground water sources for the stream. Perhaps your "spring" creeks are becoming more "springy"

BW