Protocols

• Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland and Savanna Ecosystems - Volume 1: Quick Start Guide
  This manual describes how to monitor three rangeland attributes: soil and site stability, watershed function, and biotic integrity. The Quick Start guide includes only the basics; details are provided in Volume II. 
• Monitoring Manual for Grassland, Shrubland and Savanna Ecosystems - Volume 2
  Volume II of the Monitoring Manual provides more detailed guidance on monitoring program design, data analysis and interpretation.It also includes a number of supplementary methods. Refer to Volume I for basic guidance.   
• Multiple Indicator Monitoring of Stream Channels and Streamside Vegetation
• A User Guide to Assessing Proper Functioning Condition and the Supporting Science for Lentic Areas
• A User Guide to Assessing Proper Functioning Condition and the Supporting Science for Lotic Areas
• Rapid Monitoring Protocols
  These protocols, developed by Tamarisk Coalition, are designed to provide an outline of suggested monitoring efforts that could be conducted on a restoration site in order to efficiently track restoration progress and inform the planning and... Read More
• Rapid Monitoring Datasheets - Example
  This document contains example Rapid Monitoring Datasheets to accompany the Rapid Monitoring Protocol document. 
• Rapid Monitoring Datasheets - Blank
  This document contains blank Rapid Monitoring Datasheets to accompany Rapid Monitoring Protocol document. 
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects
  The purpose of this resource, created by AloTerra Restoration Services, is to provide general recommendations for monitoring and maintenance of restored conditions in restored riparian areas of Colorado, such that information gathered from monitoring... Read More
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Noxious Weed Report Form
  This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services. 
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Shrub/Tree Survivorship Data Sheet
  This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services. 
• AloTerra Restoration Services - River Resilience Assessment Form
  This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Line-Point Intercept Form
  This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Streambank and Bed Stability Asessment Protocol
  This streambank and bed stability assessment protocol has been developed to rapidly assess factors contributing to channel stability and identify which areas along a stream reach have the greatest amount of active erosion or are at the greatest risk of... Read More
• AloTerra Restoration Services - Streambank Stability Assessment Field Sheet
  This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
• Russian Olive Monitoring and Retreatment Form
  This brochure, produced by Boulder Community Alliance (BCA), provides instructions on how to properly monitor your property for Russian olive resprouts. This form should be used in conjuction with another BCA produced document entitled: Controlling... Read More
• Field-Based Evaluations of Sampling Techniques to Support Long-Term Monitoring of Riparian Ecosystems along Wadeable Streams on the Colorado Plateau
  To better plan for and implement long-term ecological monitoring, the authors of this report measured riparian vegetation and fluvial geomorphic features at pilot study sites on four wadeable perennial stream reaches, representative of drainages across... Read More