The General Aquatic Wildlife System (GAWS) is a systematic and uniform approach to the inventory and display of the aquatic habitat. A sampling procedure using cross channel measured lines termed transects is used to measure the habitat categories of water surface, stream bottom, and streambank. The system provides for the display of the aquatic resource at various levels of planning using the Valley Bottomland Concept presently in use in the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service. The entire program has computer capability designed to serve the dual purpose of storage-retrieval without additional data manipulation and storage-retrieval with, data manipulation through output programs which compute habitat ratings, streamflows, statistical measures, and standard descriptive features.
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