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A GIS-Based Evaluation of Fremont Cottonwood Stand Dynamics in the SRLCC In the drier, mid- and low-elevation portions of the Southern Rockies LCC, Fremont cottonwood represents the only native vegetation of tall stature, and cottonwood-dominated woodlands provide critical habitat for a large array of neotropical migratory birds and other animals. These woodlands likely dominated alluvial reaches of all streams where a snowmelt-driven spring flood was the major factor driving geomorphic and vegetation dynamics. These woodlands were also among the first habitats to undergo transformation as the regions land and water resources were developed.The PI coauthored a paper (Andersen et al. 2007) on assessing the amount of native Fremont cottonwood forest remaining on floodplains in 26 subbasins... Categories: Data, Project; Types: GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-04, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-05, Colorado, Colorado River Basin, Conservation NGOs, Datasets/Database, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, Green River Basin, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Colorado River Basin, Utah, completed, cottonwood, cottonwood, floodplain, floodplain, floodplain, fremont cottonwood, fremont cottonwood, land cover, land cover, land use, land use, stand dynamics, stand dynamics, Fewer tags Improving Crop Coefficients for the Middle Rio Grande Water resource managers rely on hydrologic planning and decision-making models to understand and evaluate current and future water operations in the face of endangered species needs, drought, and climate change. Current climate change projections, such as those used in the West-Wide Climate Risk Assessment programs, are trending toward more extreme instances of drought within the Southern Rockies LCC region. Accurately estimating agricultural water consumption both under present conditions and under modeled future scenarios will help water resource managers project how much water might be available for allocation toward current ecological projects. It will also improve their understanding of the challenges a more... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, All tags... Middle Rio Grande, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande Basin, agricultural water use, agricultural water use, climate change, climate change, completed, crop coefficients, crop coefficients, drought, drought, evapotranspiration, evapotranspiration, hydrologic planning, hydrologic planning, Fewer tags Adopt-a-Trout Program for the Henrys Fork of the Green River, Wyoming Trout Unlimited will extend its existing Adopt-a-Trout program to the Henrys Fork River, a tributary to the Green River in the Colorado River basin. The project will include work with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department and local schools to tag and monitor Colorado River Cutthroat trout movements to learn more about fish passage issues, areas of high entrainment, habitat use, and native and wild trout migratory patterns. Colorado River Cutthroat trout are native to the Henrys Fork River and occupy portions of the drainage; however, no data exists for Colorado River Cutthroat trout in the Wyoming portion of the Henrys Fork drainage to understand population dynamics and habitat restraints.FY2014Trout Unlimited will... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Colorado River cutthroat trout, Colorado River cutthroat trout, Conservation NGOs, Data Acquisition and Development, Datasets/Database, All tags... Federal resource managers, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, Green River Basin, Henry's Fork of the Green River, Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Native Fish, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, UT-01, Utah, Utah, WY-00, Wyoming, Wyoming, adopt-a-trout, adopt-a-trout, completed, entrainment, entrainment, fish, fish, habitat use, habitat use, migratory patterns, migratory patterns, monitoring, monitoring, movements, movements, native specie, native species, non-native species, non-native species, passage issues, passage issues, tagging, tagging, Fewer tags Soil Vulnerability to Future Climate Change in the Southern Rockies LCC, with Implications for Vegetation Change and Water Cycle The Conservation Biology Institute is developing a tool that managers in all watersheds of the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative can use to project the effects of climate change on soil vulnerability conditions and help resource managers develop appropriate strategies to mitigate negative climate impacts.Specifically, they will develop a spatially-explicit soil vulnerability index for the Southern Rockies Landscape Conservation Cooperative that can be used to forecast short-term response of plants to current drought conditions and test a vegetation model of plant response to drought.Conservation Biology Institute will use the soil vulnerability index to compare historical and future simulations... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-04, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CO-02, All tags... CO-03, CO-05, Colorado, Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, State agencies, Tribes, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Rio Grande, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, Wyoming, climate change, climate change, completed, soil vulnerability, soil vulnerability, vegetation change, vegetation change, water cycling, water cycling, Fewer tags Improving Seasonal Water Supply Predictions and Water Management in the Upper Rio Grande River Basin through use of Enhanced Observations of Snowfall, Snowpack and Physics-Based Modeling Systems This project aims to improve seasonal water supply forecasts on the Upper Rio Grande River basin and, in doing so, help to minimize the substantial costs associated with erroneous forecasts and related sub-optimal allocations of water for surface irrigation, groundwater recharge and endangered specifies management. Erroneous seasonal water supply forecasts in the Upper Rio Grande River basin have a profound impact on water management, agricultural production and economic vitality.The specific goals of this project are to: Develop state-of the art precipitation and snowpack monitoring products through the use of experimental radar, surface observations and land data assimilation systems Improve the spatial and... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, GeoTIFF, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service, Raster; Tags: CO-03, Colorado, Colorado, Data Acquisition and Development, Federal resource managers, All tags... LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Monitoring, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, colorado, completed, hydrologic planning, hydrologic planning, hydrologic planning, new mexico, physics-based hydrologic modeling, physics-based hydrologic modeling, physics-based hydrologic modeling, precipitation monitoring, precipitation monitoring, precipitation monitoring, snowpack monitoring, snowpack monitoring, snowpack monitoring, srlcc, streamflow predictions, streamflow predictions, streamflow predictions, upper rio grande basin, water, water, water, water supply forecasting, water supply forecasting, water supply forecasting, Fewer tags Modeling Low Stream Flows and Assessing the Ecological Impacts of Potential Stream Drying under Climate Change in the Upper Colorado River Basin Streamflows in late spring and summer have declined over the last century in the western U.S. and mean annual streamflow is projected to decrease by six to 25% over the next 100 years. In arid and semi-arid regions of the western US, it is likely that some perennial streams will shift to intermittent flow regimes in response to climate-driven changes in timing and magnitude of precipitation, runoff, and evaporation. The project will address the following two research question: how will small stream (1st-3rd order) low flow hydrology be impacted by predicted longer, drier summers in the Upper Colorado River Basin under climate change and in turn, what will be the resulting impacts on riparian plant communities?... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, Applications and Tools, Arizona, CO-03, Colorado, All tags... Colorado Plateau, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, SRLCC boundary, Southern Rocky Mountains, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Colorado River Basin, Upper Rio Grande, Utah, Vulnerability Assessment, WY-00, Wasatch and Uinta Mountains, Wyoming, climate change, climate change, completed, low flow hydrology, low flow hydrology, riparian, riparian, riparian vegetation, riparian vegetation, small streams, small streams, stream drying, stream drying, stream drying, stream flows, streamflows, streamflows, upper colorado river basin, Fewer tags Vulnerability of Riparian Obligate Species in the Rio Grande to the Interactive Effects of Fire, Hydrological Variation and Climate Change Modeling Woody Plant Regeneration and Debris Accumulation under Future Streamflow and Wildfire Scenarios in the SRLCC (Not listed in the LCC Science Catalog due to Desert LCC co-funding and catalog administering) We propose to identify future risk of wildlife population decline for species inhabiting the Rio Grande, New Mexico. Specifically, we will examine and quantify the interactive effect of fire and climate change on the presence and long-term persistence of native and nonnative species in residing within Rio Grande riparian and wetland habitats. We will build upon recent species vulnerability assessment work conducted for the Rio Grande and incorporate new data and model output regarding fire behavior under different climate scenarios. Predictions for future species distributions will be coupled with scores representing species adaptive capacity to quantify vulnerability to changing climate and disturbance regimes.... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, Conservation NGOs, Conservation Planning, Federal resource managers, GIS, All tags... GIS, LCC, Map, Middle Rio Grande, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, New Mexico, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, climate change, completed, decision support tools, decision support tools, fire, fire, native species, native species, non-native species, non-native species, riparian, riparian, riparian obligate species, riparian obligate species, species distribution, species distribution, vulnerability, vulnerability, wetlands, wetlands, Fewer tags Modeling Woody Plant Regeneration and Debris Accumulation under Future Streamflow and Wildfire Scenarios in the SRLCC Rivers in the SRLCC differ from one another in flow characteristics, levels of regulation, and vulnerability to wildfire; characteristics that will be influenced by climate change (Seager et al. 2007, Mortiz et al. 2012). An understanding of how changes in streamflow and wildfire frequency will affect structure of live and dead woody vegetation is needed to for managers assess the vulnerability of riparian obligate species to climate change. We are developing stochastic transition models for cottonwood trees and snags along the Middle Rio Grande by modifying Lytle and Merritts (2004) stage-structured cottonwood population model. By incorporating influences of flood and wildfire into stage transition rates, we can... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Conservation NGOs, Cultural Resources, Decision Support, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > LANDSCAPE, Federal resource managers, All tags... Informing Conservation Delivery, LCC, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Middle Rio Grande, NM-01, NM-02, NM-02, NM-03, NM-03, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Tribes, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, climate change, climate change, climate change, completed, cottonwood, cottonwood, cottonwood, debris, debris, debris, environment, fire, fire, population model, population model, population model, riparian, riparian, riparian, riparian obligates, riparian obligates, riparian obligates, vegetation, vegetation, vegetation, vulnerability, vulnerability, vulnerability, watershed management, watershed management, watershed management, wildlife, wildlife, woody vegetation, woody vegetation, woody vegetation, Fewer tags Evaluation of Decision Support System Platforms and Tools for Integrated Water Management in the Colorado River Basin The project will result in recommendations for a decision support platform that links coarse and fine scale tools and for improving the Colorado River Simulation System (CRSS) as the central analytical tool for basinwide water supply planning. The work will largely be accomplished by assembling an exceptionally qualified team in cross-disciplinary, water management decision support systems, in the CRSS, and in two finer scale water management decision supports within the basin and by responding to an advisory group oflead water management agencies.The project will immediately build on the Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study being led by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, will extend the interface between... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-02, AZ-03, AZ-04, AZ-05, All tags... AZ-06, AZ-07, AZ-08, AZ-09, Arizona, CA-08, CA-36, CA-51, CO-02, CO-03, California, Colorado, Colorado River Basin, Colorado River Basin, Conservation Planning, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-02, NM-03, NV-01, NV-03, NV-04, Native Fish, Nevada, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Utah, WY-00, Wyoming, completed, decision support systems, decision support systems, decision support tools, decision support tools, ecological flows, ecological flows, water, water, water management, water management, water supply planning, water supply planning, Fewer tags National Wetland Inventory Mapping for the Colorado Portion of the SRLCC Without reliable spatial data for wetland and riparian areas, it is impossible for land managers to accurately assess the distribution of critical aquatic habitats and model potential impacts caused by climate change. Wetlands in the Southern Rockies are particularly important for wildlife habitat, as they are often far more productive than the surrounding uplands. In addition, wetlands are an integral component of regional hydrologic cycles through their role in flood abatement, storm water retention, groundwater recharge, and water quality improvement.Colorados wetlands were mapped by the FWS early 1980 and in late 1990, and though the maps exist, they were created for print and most are not useful as digital... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Applications and Tools, CO-03, Colorado, Colorado, Conservation NGOs, All tags... Conservation Planning, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, State agencies, Upper Rio Grande, Western Colorado, Western Colorado, completed, national wetland inventory, national wetland inventory, riparian areas, riparian areas, water, water, wetlands, wetlands, wetlands, Fewer tags Vulnerability and Connectivity of Natural Landscapes and Riparian Habitat in the SRLCC Land managers have incorporated threats to biodiversity for nearly two decades, but very few efforts have included threats from future conditions and fewer still have assessed vulnerability to climate change. This project will address two themes: 1) providing foundational information about habitat fragmentation and connectivity and 2) identifying the degree of vulnerability of key habitats to climate change.For development of understanding broadextent, a landscape-level pattern of climate change is an important complement to approaches to estimate rangeshifts for certain key focal species. Ecological system types (i.e. coarsefilters) are widely used in conservation planning because they contain valuable resources... Categories: Data, Project; Types: ArcGIS REST Map Service, ArcGIS Service Definition, Downloadable, Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, AZ-04, Applications and Tools, CO-02, CO-03, All tags... CO-05, Conservation Planning, Cultural Resources, Datasets/Database, Federal resource managers, Four Corners, GIS, Green River Basin, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Map, NM-01, NM-02, NM-03, Native Fish, Private land owners, Project, SRLCC, SRLCC, Sage-steppe, State agencies, Streamflows, UT-01, UT-02, UT-03, Upper Rio Grande, Vulnerability Assessment, climate change, climate change, completed, connectivity, connectivity, energy development, impact, impact, riparian habitat, riparian habitat, sensitivity, sensitivity, terrestrial habitat, terrestrial habitat, urban development, urban development, vulnerability, vulnerability, Fewer tags Watershed Disturbance and Restoration Impacts on Hydrologic Function Relative to Increased Snowmelt Water Yields, Stream Water Quality, and Species Conservation in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico: Model Calibration and Validation on a Landscape Scale The overall project goal is to understand and model the watershed impacts of forest restoration actions (thinning, prescribed fire) and climate change on the hydrologic function, particularly with respect to (1) changes in soil moisture and water yield during snowmelt, (2) inter-annual and directional changes in stream water quality, and (3) the resulting impacts on watershed management for wildlife species threatened by disturbance and climate change.Specifically, we will: use known relationships of forest structure on snow-water equivalent (SWE) values and processes of sublimation (ablation), infiltration and run-off in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico to model forest-stand restoration prescriptions,... Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Cultural Resources, Decision Support, Federal resource managers, Informing Conservation Delivery, Jemez Mountains, All tags... Jemez Mountains, Jemez River, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, NM-03, Native Fish, New Mexico, New Mexico, Project, SRLCC, State agencies, Streamflows, Tribes, Upper Rio Grande, Upper Rio Grande, Valles Caldera, climate change, climate change, completed, forest restoration, forest restoration, forest structure, forest structure, forest thinning, forest thinning, prescribed fire, prescribed fire, snowmelt, snowmelt, soil moisture, soil moisture, stream water yield, stream water yield, streamflows, streamflows, upper rio grande basin, water, water, watershed management, watershed management, Fewer tags