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The Integrated Monitoring Program includes 36 long-term aquatic monitoring locations. These sites are used to track changes in stream health over time. At each location, five ecological attributes are measured as proxies for stream health: fish and benthic invertebrate communities, water quality, temperature, and flows. Sites were selected to be evenly distributed across the CLOCA jurisdiction taking into account representing watershed boundaries, stream order, and varying amounts of anthropogenic stressors. CLOCA does monitor additional aquatic sites but these are a part of different projects that tend to be shorter in duration and more specific to one of the ecological attributes.