Difference between revisions of "Riparian Vegetation"

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Hidden Slough in Glen Canyon

• Environmental Assessment for Hidden Slough Pilot Site in Glen Canyon

2025

• Goal 11 Riparian Vegetation

• Hotter Temperatures Change Plant Response to River Regulation

2024

• Effects of dam operations and vegetation management on the preservation and geomorphic condition of archaeological sites
• Project C: Getting to know Colorado River riparian plant communities
• Getting to know Colorado River riparian plant communities
• The Effects of Vegetative Feedbacks on Flood Shape, Sediment Transport, and Geomorphic Change in Dryland Rivers
• Riparian Plant Community Metrics

2023

• Butterfield, B.J., and Palmquist, E.C., 2023, Divergent physiological responses of hydric and mesic riparian plant species to a Colorado River experimental flow: Plant Ecology, p. 1-9,
• Paria Beach Restoration Project
• Science Update: Lake Powell, Riparian Vegetation, and Bug Flows
• Palmquist et al., 2023, Assessment of riparian vegetation patterns and change downstream from Glen Canyon Dam from 2014 to 2019: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report
• Predictive Vegetation Modeling: Progress and Opportunities for Growth

2022

• Riparian Vegetation Science & Management
• Goal 11: Riparian Vegetation Draft Metrics
• Riparian Vegetation Monitoring & Modeling

2021

• Long Term Experimental and Management Plan – Riparian Vegetation Project Plan
• Durning et al. 2021. Hydrologic and geomorphic effects on riparian plant species occurrence and encroachment: remote sensing of 360 km of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Ecohydrology
• Palmquist et al., 2021, Riverine complexity and life history inform restoration in riparian environments in the southwestern U.S.: Restoration Ecology
• Draft Riparian Vegetation Project Plan
• Riparian Vegetation Science and Management
• Bransky et al., 2021, Monitoring Tamarix changes using WorldView-2 satellite imagery in Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona: Remote Sensing

2020

• Paria Beach Riparian Restoration in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Lees Ferry, Arizona
• Examining variability in arrowweed physiological traits and responses to flooding
• GCMRC 2019 Annual Reporting Meeting Overview – Part 2b
• Butterfieldet al., 2020, Associations between riparian plant morphological guilds and fluvial sediment dynamics along the regulated Colorado River in Grand Canyon: River Research and Applications
• Veg-Sand Feedbacks and Updates on Project C.1 and C.3
• Species-level evaluation of riparian vegetation dynamics using remotely sensed imagery from aerial overflights

2019

• Palmquist et al. 2019, A comparison of riparian vegetation sampling methods along a large, regulated river: River Research and Applications
• Riparian Vegetation Monitoring and Research Presentation

2018

• Durning et al. 2019, Riparian species vegetation classification data for the Colorado River within Grand Canyon derived from 2013 airborne imagery: U.S. Geological Survey data release
• Riparian Rehabilitation Along the Colorado River in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Arizona PPT
• GCMRC Science Updates PPT
• Butterfield et al., 2018, Hydrological regime and climate interactively shape riparian vegetation composition along the Colorado River, Grand Canyon: Applied Vegetation Science
• Palmquist et al., 2018, Monitoring riparian-vegetation composition and cover along the Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods.
• Riparian vegetation monitoring and research in the Colorado River Ecosystem PPT

2017

• Ralston, et al., 2017, Taxonomic and compositional differences of ground-dwelling arthropods in riparian habitats in Glen Canyon, Arizona, USA: Western North American Naturalist, v. 77, no. 3, p. 369-384
• McCoy-Sulentic et al., 2017, Variation in species-level plant functional traits over wetland indicator status categories: Ecology and Evolution
• McCoy-Sulentic et al., 2017, Changes in Community-Level Riparian Plant Traits Over Inundation Gradients, Colorado River, Grand Canyon: Wetlands
• Durning et al., 2017, Riparian vegetation classification of the Colorado River Corridor, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 2013—Data: U.S. Geological Survey data release
• Ralston and Sarr. 2017. Case studies of riparian and watershed restoration in the southwestern United States—Principles, challenges, and successes.
• The Individual and Additive Effects of Hydrologic Alteration and Vegetation Encroachment on Sediment Connectivity in Grand Canyon PPT

2016

• Palmquist et al. 2017. Functional traits and ecological affinities of riparian plants along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon
• Riparian Vegetation Monitoring with Remote Sensing
• Sankey et al. 2016, Remote Sensing of Tamarisk Biomass, Insect Herbivory, and Defoliation: Novel Methods in the Grand Canyon Region, Arizona: Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing 82(8), pp. 645-652
• Linkages between controlled floods, eddy sandbar dynamics, and riparian vegetation along the Colorado River in Marble Canyon, Arizona, USA
• Riparian vegetation monitoring with remote sensing
• Southern Paiute Consortium Vegetation and Cultural Resource Monitoring Program
• Historical Changes to Culturally-Important Riparian Plants along the Colorado River: A Progress Report on Project 12
• Report of Riparian Vegetation Workshop, June 23-25, 2015 in Flagstaff, AZ

2015

• Collaborative Riparian Restoration in Glen Canyon NRA at Leopard Frog Marsh

2013

• Science Updates - Overflights, Riparian Vegetation, and Sediment
• 2013 Mission Overflight
• Changes in Riparian Vegetation in the Colorado River Corridor, 1965-present
• 2013 Overflight Wrapup
• FUGRO EARTHDATA, Inc., GCMRC 2013 Ortho Imagery and DSM Proposal
• Status of the Upcoming 2013 Airborne Data Collection for Colorado River Corridor
• Uses for Remote Sensing Data by GCMRC Projects
• Progress and Plans for Processing Airborne data
• Assessing Vegetation Response to Dam Operations Using the Response Guild Approach
• Status and Trends of Tamarisk Beetle in Glen, Marble, and Grand Canyons

2012

• Updates on Goal 3, Tamarisk Beetle, and Riparian Work

2010

• Riparian Vegetation Monitoring for the Colorado River Ecosystem

2009

• Tamarisk Leaf Beetle Invasion to the Colorado River Ecosystem in the Grand Canyon PPT
• Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center (GCMRC) Update

Experimental riparian vegetation treatment activities would be implemented by NPS under the proposed action and would modify the cover and distribution of riparian plant communities along the Colorado River. All activities would be consistent with NPS Management Policies (NPS 2006) and would occur only within the Colorado River Ecosystem in areas that are influenced by dam operations. NPS would work with tribal partners and GCMRC to experimentally implement and evaluate a number of vegetation control and native replanting activities on the riparian vegetation within the Colorado River Ecosystem in GCNP and GCNRA. These activities would include ongoing monitoring and removal of selected nonnative plant species, systematic removal of nonnative vegetation at targeted sites, and native replanting at targeted sites, which may include complete removal of tamarisk (both live and dead) and re-vegetation with native plants. Treatments would include the control of nonnative plant species and revegetation with native plant species.

As part of LTEMP, experimental riparian vegetation treatment was included as mitigation for dam operations within CRE. Vegetation treatment actions on NPS managed lands will be implemented by NPS consistent with NPS Management Policies (NPS 2006) and will occur only within the CRE in areas that are influenced by dam operations. The NPS will work with tribal partners and GCMRC to experimentally implement and evaluate a number of vegetation control and native replanting activities on the riparian vegetation within the Colorado River Ecosystem in GCNP and GCNRA. These activities would include ongoing monitoring and removal of selected nonnative plants, species in the corridor, systematic removal of nonnative vegetation at targeted sites, and native replanting at targeted sites and subreaches, which may include complete removal of tamarisk (both live and dead) and revegetation with native vegetation. Treatments would fall into two broad categories, including the control of nonnative plant species and revegetation with native plant species. Principal elements of this experimental riparian vegetation proposal include:

• Control nonnative plant species affected by dam operations, including tamarisk and other highly invasive species;
• Develop native plant materials for replanting through partnerships and the use of regional greenhouses;
• Replant native plant species to priority sites along the river corridor, including native species of interest to tribes;
• Remove vegetation encroaching on campsites; and
• Manage vegetation to assist with cultural site protection.

General Plant Species

• Approximately 129 vegetation communities, Over 850 species have been reported from GCNRA, and over 1,750 vascular plant species from GCNP (NPS CFMP-EA_pg 19)

1. Riparian communities are dominated by species such as coyote and seep willows, arrowweed, western honey mesquite, catclaw acacia, and exotic tamarisk with many other species present.
2. Desert Scrub communities are dominated by species such as creosote, white bursage, brittle bush, ocotillo, four-wing saltbush, big sagebrush, ephedra, dropseed, brome grasses, and many other species.
3. Approximately 11% of flora in GCNP and GC reach is exotic.