The Linked Ecological and Anthroplogical Dimensions in Riverscapes (LEADR) project combines historical data addressing
ecological and anthropological features of the Missoula city and the Clark Fork River in the Missoula valley to investigate
address the  human-environment interaction and its implications for the complexity for the lotic and municipal
featreus that together form a river-based socio-ecological system (SES).

Our working hypothesis addresses the conflicts between natural and anthropogenic complexity associated
with human settlements and their interaction with floodplains and riverscapes.

H_O: River-based SESs follow a developmental sequence that is typically repeated because human development
historically shapes the environment in wasy that transformation riverscapes, enhance heterogenteity and linkage
of human water resources, and counteract the natural complexity  of river floodplains.