Landscape conservation design (LCD) is a collaborative, inter-disciplinary planning process that integrates societal values and multi-sector interests with the best available social and natural sciences to assess vulnerabilities, risks, and opportunities; and develops coordinated, spatially-explicit strategies that reduce land-use conflicts, enhance the adaptive capacity of the socio-ecological system, and maintains ecosystem function across the landscape for future generations.
The purpose of the Stream Stewardship and Recovery Handbook is to create an educational resource for private landowners to better understand their streamside properties in the context of the larger watershed, what they can do to practice good stream stewardship and when/how they should engage outside help for stewardship or recovery projects.
Using high-resolution multitemporal, multispectral data, the authors classified tamarisk defoliation in the Glen Canyon area in Arizona. The high spatial resolution classification provides key information to effectively inform restoration treatments regarding where and how much mechanical removal or controlled burning could be performed.
The New Mexico Department of Game and Fish has published a new handbook for Habitat Restoration and Management of Native and Non-native Trees in Southwestern Riparian Ecosystems. This Handbook addresses wildlife use of non-native riparian habitats, including tamarisk, Russian olive, and Siberian elm. It also provides recommendations for restoration of riparian habitats following chemical, mechanical, and/or biological control of non-native trees.
This site allows users to enter their zip code to view a list of the best plants for birds in their area, as well as local resources and links to more information.
This Audubon report synthesizes scientific linkages between water and birds in the arid West at a regional scale. It documents the changes that have taken place that threaten the ability of these critical habitats to support healthy populations of birds, focusing on two main geographies: riparian systems of the Colorado River Basin and a network of saline lakes in the Intermountain West. The report complements Audubon's work in the region, by describing key places and species, and establishing relationships between water, habitat, and birds.
This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
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 future erosion. It also considers the stability and effectiveness of channel restoration structures as a post-restoration monitoring class. Each sub-reach (100-200 feet) is evaluated for bed and bank material properties, bank slope and vegetation coverage, as well as evidence of active bed and bank erosion.
This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
This form accompanies Monitoring, Maintenance, and Adaptive Management Planning and Resources for Riparian Restoration Projects, developed by AloTerra Restoration Services.
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 efforts can influence ongoing land management necessary to accomplish project goals. It is important to note that monitoring plans and maintenance strategies must be tailored to the specific site in question.