2022 Southwestern Willow Flycatcher

An ArcGIS Online (AGOL) page containing historical and predictive maps developed by James Hatten of the USGS for the southwestern willow flycatcher habitat across the southwestern United States. The model predicts the probabilities for suitable habitat for SWFL and can be used to guide restoration efforts. 

Use the Habitat Viewer here: https://usgs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=b362c94bd7…

 

Featured
Colorado Parks & Wildlife - Wildlife Species Profiles & Habitat Scorecards

The purpose of these profiles is to provide landowners and land managers with easy-to-use guidelines for understanding habitat needs of priority wetland-dependent wildlife. 

Please note that these profiles are limited to birds found in Mesa & Delta Counties.

Featured
Tamarisk biocontrol alters bird community composition in the absence of cottonwood and willow vegetation
Invasive species disturb ecosystems and threaten biodiversity. Invasive species management, such as biological control, can cause additional disturbances, so quantifying how native species respond to invasive control is important to inform best management practices.   Mahoney et al. quantified southwestern bird communities in sites that varied in the amount of the non-native plant tamarisk (Tamarix spp.), before and after biological control efforts.
Featured
Lessons Learned for Successful Watershed Partnerships in the Colorado River Basin

What are the key ingredients of successful collaborative partnerships? What worked well and what did not? If we had to do it all over again, what would we do differently? This document, based on interviews with stakeholders from 11 watershed partnerships in the Colorado River Basin, discusses the successes and challenges encountered from initial partnership formation to maintaining momentum over the years. It informs how RiversEdge West and other partners can continue contributing to the long-term success and viability of watershed partnerships.

Featured
Renewing Our Rivers: Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions
Our rivers are in crisis and the need for river restoration has never been more urgent. Water security and biodiversity indices for all of the world’s major rivers have declined due to pollution, diversions, impoundments, fragmented flows, introduced and invasive species, and many other abuses.   Developing successful restoration responses are essential. Renewing Our Rivers addresses this need head-on with examples of how to design and implement stream-corridor restoration projects.
Featured
Field Guide for Managing Kochia

Plant guide from the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service on managing Kochia. 

Casey, P.A. 2009. Plant guide for kochia (Kochia scoparia). USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, Kansas Plant Materials Center. Manhattan, KS.

Featured
Low-Water Native Plants for Colorado Gardens - Western Slope: Below 7,000'

Many people have an interest in landscaping with native plants. The purpose of this booklet is to help people make the most successful choices, based on their location in Colorado. 

Featured
Bringing Birds Home

Bringing Birds Home is a manual that describes how to proactively improve riparian habitat for bird species in Mesa County, Colorado.  

This guide was made possible by a grant from the Bird Conservancy of the Rockies and was produced by RiversEdge West, with help from the Grand Valley Audubon Society, Tucson Audubon Society, and Audubon Arizona.

 
Featured
How to Tell the Difference Between Russian Olive and Silverleaf Buffaloberry

This 1-page handout describes the differences between invasive Russian olive and native silverleaf buffaloberry. Photos of distinctive characteristics are provided. 

Featured
Waterjet Stinger
This document describes how to use a stinger, a tool to plant dormant unrooted cuttings of willows, cottonwoods, dogwoods, and other species.
Featured
Riparian Restoration Cost Calculator

This resource developed by RiversEdge West (formerly Tamarisk Coalition) allows users to estimate tamarisk and Russian olive removal and restoration costs based on existing site parameters. 

Featured
Suggested Methodologies for Cottonwood Pole, Willow Whip, and Longstem Plantings

This guide describes techniques for harvesting, storing, and planting various types of plant materials, including dormant cottonwood pole cuttings, willow whip cuttings, and longstem products. This guide was prepared by RiversEdge West (formerly Tamarisk Coalition), based on input provided by Los Lunas Plant Materials Center.  

Featured
Tamarisk Best Management Practices in Colorado Watersheds - Scott Nissen, Andrew Norton, Anna Sher, and Dan Bean
This guide by Drs. Scott Nissen, Andrew Norton, Anna Sher, and Dan Bean offers key options and considerations for tamarisk treatment, including biocontrol, targeted guidance on how to develop management plans, implement various control strategies, and plan restoration for treated sites. Useful resource as an accompaniment to Sher et al. 2010.    Nissen et al. 2010.   
Why are my Trees Brown? Tamarisk and the Tamarisk Beetle

Tamarisk Coalition produced a pamphlet that provides information on tamarisk and the tamarsik beetle, the biological control that was introduced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to help manage the plant.

Field Guide for Managing Tree-of-Heaven in the Southwest

Tree-of-heaven is an invasive tree in southwestern states that has been listed as a noxious weed in New Mexico. This field guide serves as the U.S. Forest Service’s recommendations for management of tree-of-heaven in forests, woodlands, and riparian areas associated with its Southwestern Region.

Field Guide for Managing Siberian Elm in the Southwest
Siberian elm is common to southwestern states and is listed as a noxious tree in New Mexico. This field guide serves as the U.S. Forest Service’s recommendations for management of Siberian elm in forests, woodlands, and rangelands associated with its Southwestern Region. 
Weed Management Preferences
This resource provides guidelines on treating woody invaives and secondary weeds with the recommended timing and type of herbicide.   Developed by Fremont County Weed Management for Fremont, Custer, & Surrounding Counties April 2015   Please see Fremont County Weed Control’s booklet, “Guideline for Weed Management Plans” for more details such as herbicide rates and specifics about weed control methods.
Protecting Wildlife When Using Herbicides for Invasive Plant Management
Protecting Wildlife When Using Herbicides for Invasive Plant Management

Produced by the California Invasive Plant Council & Pesticide Research Institute

Forestry Best Management Practices to Protect Water Quality in Colorado – 2010
This publication is dedicated to the stewardship of forest land resources – especially clean water. It outlines Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the protection of natural resources. These BMPs apply to all forest management activities, including product harvests, fuels mitigation projects and forest health treatments.
Slash From the Past: Rehabilitating Pile Burn Scars
Working with managers, Rocky Moutain Research Station researchers have evaluated the available treatments for short-term rehabilitation of both smaller, hand-built and larger, machine-built burn piles. For the smaller piles, they found that both soil nitrogen and plant cover recovered to a level similar to that of the surrounding forest within two years, indicating that these scars may not need rehabilitation unless in a sensitive area.
Colorado Forest Road Field Handbook
This handbook discusses the major aspects of forest roads management as it relates to their design, location, inspection, maintenance and repair. Most private and state forest roads are already in existence, thus the primary focus of th  is publication is to assist landowners in the management of these in-place roads.
Colorado Forestry Best Management Practices Forest Stewardship Guidelines for Water Quality Protection 2012: Field Audit Report
In an effort to proactively protect water quality, Colorado has implemented Best Management Practices (BMPs) for forestry activities. BMPs are a set of water-quality protection measures and guidelines that provide direction on planning, roads, Streamside Management Zones (SMZs), timber harvesting, pesticides and fertilizers, stream crossings and fire management.     In September 2012, an interdisciplinary team visited six timber-harvest sites in southwest Colorado to assess Colorado forestry BMP application and effectiveness.
Grant Budget Template

This document provides a generic template for grant budget development. 

National Seed Strategy

National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration 2015-2020 is designed to provide a more coordinated approach among tribal, state, federal, local and private entities, including commercial growers, to restoring plant communities. 

TC Restoration Funding Survey Results Summary
To ensure that TC’s Funding Program targets the real needs of restoration practitioners, we conducted a survey in 2014.
Fund Tracking Template

This documents provides a template for tracking multiple funding streams from multiple sources in the watershed partnership setting. Please note that formulas may need to be adjusted and updated. 

In-kind tracking templates and guidance

These documents provide an overview of why and how to track in-kind contributions.

State of the Trout

This Trout Unlimited Report describes the many and varied threats facing native and wild trout in this country. Threats have evolved over time, from agriculture and mining practices of the past to a new suite of problems related to four primary issues: energy development, introduction of non-native species, increasing water use and demand, and climate change. Legacy problems remain in many areas and their impacts are compounded by these emerging challenges.

State of the Santa Cruz River & Conservation Inventory
The Santa Cruz River and other riparian areas in the watershed have long been the backbone of the region’s natural and cultural heritage.
The Beaver Restoration Guidebook - Version 2
This guidebook provides a practical synthesis of the best available science for using beaver to improve ecosystem functions. If you are a restoration practitioner, land manager, landowner, restoration funder, project developer, regulator, or other interested cooperators, this guidebook is for you. The overall goal of this document is to provide an accessible, useful resource for those involved in using beaver to restore streams, floodplains, wetlands, and riparian ecosystems.
Tech Note 70 - Revegetating Riparian Areas in the Southwest "Lessons Learned"

The efforts to control invasive tree species and revegetate riparian areas along New Mexico’s rivers and streams have led to important “lessons learned” based on both successful and failed projects. The information in this technical note is intended to concisely address the concerns that you should consider when planning and developing riparian revegetation projects.

Field Guide to Intermountain Sedges
This guide was prepared to assist both specialists and nonspecialists in identifying common sedges of the Intermountain Region.