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BLM | 2013
Wyoming’s high desert riparian areas cover less than 1% of the landscape but account for up to 20% of forage. Livestock spend disproportionate time in these areas, inflicting disproportionate…
BLM | 2013
A remote sensing project in cooperation with Northern Arizona University and the BLM detects newly created networks from illegal human activities: vehicular routes, human trails, and accumulations of…
BOR | 2013
The Bureau of Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group uses light detection and ranging (lidar) data in conjunction with river and reservoir bathymetric surveys to develop…
FWS | 2013
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) uses avian radar along with multiple other methods to monitor bird and bat migration along the shorelines of the Great Lakes (http://www.fws.gov/radar/…
NPS | 2013
One of the key early steps in preparing for sea-level rise and storm surge is ensuring that the geodetic “backbone,” the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) benchmarks, have long-term viability and…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation routinely monitors more than 3.5 million acres of agriculture and riparian vegetation along the Lower Colorado River from Hoover Dam to the Southerly International Border. Data generated…
BOR | 2013
The San Joaquin River Restoration Program is a comprehensive long-term effort to restore flows to the San Joaquin River in California’s Central Valley from Friant Dam to the confluence of the Merced…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is responsible for administration of the Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) for the Newlands Reclamation Project, Nevada. Section 418.8 of OCAP directs Reclamation and the Truckee-…
BOR | 2013
Reclamation is charged with measuring consumptive water use (water that is physically removed, either through export or evaporation) within the Upper Colorado River Basin. Irrigated agriculture…
FWS | 2013
The invasive wetland plant Phragmites australis forms very tall, monotypic, dense stands of reeds that cause massive habitat degradation and biological diversity reduction in Great Lakes wetlands.…
FWS | 2013
This project addresses unauthorized grazing by cattle on two islands (Wosnesenski and Chirikof) within the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge was established in 1980 to conserve…
FWS | 2013
Refuge staff photographed one unit of Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) using a handheld digital single-lens reflex camera from a helicopter. The flight produced hundreds of…