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BOR | 2012
The Bureau of 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 Boundary…
BOR | 2012
Reclamation is responsible for administration of the Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP) for the Newlands Reclamation Project in Nevada. The OCAP directs Reclamation and the Truckee-Carson…
BOR | 2012
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 | 2012
In 2000, the Department of the Interior (DOI) purchased Elwha and Glines Canyon dams, impounding the Aldwell and Mills Reservoirs on the Elwha River in Washington State. These two dams are to be…
BOR | 2012
Reclamation is charged with measuring consumptive water use (water that is removed from a watershed) within the Colorado River Basin. Irrigated agriculture accounts for the majority of…
BLM | 2011
Lidar and aerial photography are valuable tools for preliminary investigations by cadastral surveyors. Boundary disputes are often decided using survey information. Remote sensing data…
BLM | 2011
The Pacific Northwest Hydrography Framework is sponsoring a working group tasked to evaluate the use of lidar-derived DEMs as a principal data source for updating the National Hydrology Database (NHD…
BLM | 2011
The Oregon BLM State Office developed a semi-automated technique to map juniper distribution for specific project areas. The technique uses 0.5 meter color infra-red NAIP imagery to identify…
BOR | 2011
Consumptive water use refers to water that is removed from a watershed by evapotranspiration (loss of water from direct evaporation or plant transpiration), making it unavailable for other uses.…
BLM | 2011
The famous Laetoli footprints were made by a human ancestor 3.56 million years ago in the Rift Valley of Tanzania and are the earliest fossil evidence of bipedalism in our ancestors. The trail…
BLM | 2011
The revised Statue 2477 (RS2477) was enacted by Congress in 1866 to facilitate western settlement. It granted “the right-of-way for the construction of highways across public lands not…
BOR | 2011
Reclamation is involved with a number of river restoration efforts throughout the Western United States, including the San Joaquin and Trinity in California, the Grande Rhonde in Oregon, the Lemhi…