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We mapped surface water from high resolution photography taken on September 16, 2010, at a stream flow of 96.5 m3/s (3,410 ft3/s, Cisco gage). We subdivided surface water into six categories: primary channel, secondary channel, split flow channel, backwater, isolated pool, and tributary channel, similar to that of fish habitat methods used extensively in Oregon. Channel types that are not primary channel are considered ‘off-channel’.
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These layers show some of the human interactions with the bottomland area. Recreation sites, roads, fuel treatment areas, and river camp layers were all acquired from project partners or publically available data and clipped to or near the bottomland boundary for use here. Bottomland reaches, kilometers, 2010 channel layers were created for the Colorado River Conservation Planning project.
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This is a habitat suitability model for bat feeding in the Colorado River bottomland in Utah. The model incorporates distance to water, stillness of adjacent water, and the variety of dominant cover types within 0.5 ha radius. See Open File Report, Rasmussen and Shafroth, Colorado River Conservation Planning for geoprocessing details.
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This dataset represents relative patch size of riparian trees as mapped along the Colorado River bottomland from the Colorado state line (San Juan and Grand Counties, Utah) to the southern Canyonlands NP boundary, as of September 2010. This mapping was conducted as part of the Colorado River Conservation Planning Project, a joint effort between the National Park Service, The Nature Conservancy, US Geological Survey, Bureau of Land Management, and Utah Forestry Fire and State Lands.
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This is a habitat suitability model for snakes that prefer the rocky boundaries of the bottomland of the Colorado River in Utah. The model incorporates distance to water, distance to the bottomland boundary, diversity of woody cover, and diversity of cover types within a 50 sq meter areas. See Open File Report, Rasmussen and Shafroth, Colorado River Conservation Planning for geoprocessing details.
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With the help of local and regional natural resource professionals, we developed a broad-scale, spatially-explicit assessment of 146 miles (~20,000 acres) of the Colorado River mainstem in Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah that can be used to support conservation planning and riparian restoration prioritization. For the assessment we: 1) acquired, modified or created spatial datasets of Colorado River bottomland conditions; 2) synthesized those datasets into habitat suitability models and estimates of natural recovery potential, fire risk and relative cost; 3) investigated and described dominant ecosystem trends and human uses, and; 4) suggested site selection and prioritization approaches. Here, we make available...
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This set of maps shows relative habitat quality for riparian understory species, both with and without a penalty applied for abundant tamarisk. Component layers are included, as are complementary layers of channel boundaries, reaches, and bottomland kilometers.
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Field and microstructural observations from Upheaval Dome, in Canyonlands National Park, Utah, show that inelastic strain of the Wingate Sandstone is localized along compactional deformation bands. These bands are tabular discontinuities (b0.5 cm thick) that accommodate inelastic shear and compaction of inter-granular volume. Measurements of porosity and grain size from nondeformed samples are used to define a set of capped strength envelopes for the Wingate Sandstone. These strength envelopes reveal that compactional deformation bands require at least ca. 0.7 GPa (and potentially more than 2.3 GPa) of effective mean stress in order to nucleate within this sandstone. We find that the most plausible geologic process...
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These data were compiled for a study that investigated the effects of drought seasonality and plant community composition on two dominant perennial grasses, Achnatherum hymenoides (C3 photosynthesis), and Pleuraphis jamesii (C4 photosynthesis), in a dryland ecosystem. In 2015 USGS Ecologists recorded vegetation and soil moisture data in 36 experimental plots which manipulated precipitation in two plant community types. The experiment consisted of three precipitation treatments: control (ambient precipitation), cool-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation November-April), and warm-season drought (-66% ambient precipitation May-October), applied in two plant communities (perennial grasses with or without a large...
Tags: Achnatherum hymenoides, Botany, C3 photosynthesis, C4 photosynthesis, Canyonlands National Park, All tags...
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The Lake Powell Coring Project was a USGS research effort, in cooperation with the Utah Department of Environmental Quality, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. National Park Service. In the fall of 2018, hydraulic piston cores targeted sediment that had been deposited in Lake Powell. This large reservoir on the Colorado River in Utah and Arizona was created after the completion of Glen Canyon Dam in 1963. Retrieval and analysis of cores was undertaken in response to the Gold King mine release from the Bonita Peak Mining District in Colorado on August 5, 2015. This event resulted in the containment loss of three-million gallons of mine-impacted waters which flowed from the Animas River into the San Juan River,...
Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Animas River, Antelope Canyon, Bears Ears National Monument, Bullfrog, Bullfrog Bay, All tags...
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Album caption: Chesler Park in The Needles, looking northeast, Canyonlands National Park. San Juan County, Utah. 1971 (Aerial photo by National Geographic Society) (Not available from Photographic Library) No index card. Note: Published as figure 50 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1327. 1974.
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Album caption and index card: Upheaval Dome. Canyonlands National Park. San Juan County, Utah. n.d. (Photo by National Park Service)
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Index card: Trail to Druid Arch, near its beginning at northeast corener of Chesler Park, marked only by rock cairns, two of which are visible. Canyonlands National Park. San Juan County, Utah. October 5, 1970. Note: Published as figure 52 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1327. 1974. See also: lsw00040_cp
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Album caption and index card: View eastward across Salt Canyon. Note the narrow walls and pinnacles between the canyons and alcoves. Six-Shooter Peaks in the left background. (Aerial photo by W. Alcorn, U.S. National Park Service) Note: Published as figure 40 in U.S. Geological Survey. Bulletin 1327. 1974.
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Album caption and index card: Castle Arch in west fork of Horse Canyon, looking west. Canyonlands National Park. San Juan County, Utah. May 17, 1959. (Photo by L.P. Arnberger, National Park Service) Note: Panorama with lsw00676.
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This data set shows the extent of the Colorado River Conservation Planning project bottomland area as delineated by topography and vegetation, The bottomland area is subdivided into 1 km polygons measured from the upstream project boundary.
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This raster data depicts the modeled distribution of three grassland states: Biocrust, Grass-bare, and Annualized-bare. We developed models of bare ground, total vegetation, exotic grasses and biological soil crust using spectral data from three year composites of growing season (March-October) Landsat data in Google Earth Engine and field data that were collected over the same period at monitoring sites. The resulting regression models were used to characterize the spatial distribution of putative grassland ecological states across our 251,430 ha study area in and around Canyonlands National Park, UT. This model illustrates how a remote sensing approach to land-cover change can be implemented to guide dryland ecosystem...
The introduction of nonnative plant species may decrease ecosystem stability by altering the availability of nitrogen (N) for plant growth. Invasive species can impact N availability by changing litter quantity and quality, rates of N2-fixation, or rates of N loss. We quantified the effects of invasion by the annual grass Bromus tectorum on N cycling in an arid grassland on the Colorado Plateau (USA). The invasion occurred in 1994 in two community types in an undisturbed grassland. This natural experiment allowed us to measure the immediate responses following invasion without the confounding effects of previous disturbance. Litter biomass and the C:N and lignin:N ratios were measured to determine the effects on...
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The introduction of nonnative plant species may decrease ecosystem stability by altering the availability of nitrogen (N) for plant growth. Invasive species can impact N availability by changing litter quantity and quality, rates of N2-fixation, or rates of N loss. We quantified the effects of invasion by the annual grass Bromus tectorum on N cycling in an arid grassland on the Colorado Plateau (USA). The invasion occurred in 1994 in two community types in an undisturbed grassland. This natural experiment allowed us to measure the immediate responses following invasion without the confounding effects of previous disturbance. Litter biomass and the C:N and lignin:N ratios were measured to determine the effects on...
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This map shows areas covered by the high flow of the Colorado River mainstem between the Utah Colorado border and the upper pool of Lake Powell, Utah (146 miles). The channel boundary was mapped from public available NAIP imagery flown on June 28, 2011, when the river flow was 886 m3/s at the Cisco gage. Area not covered by 2011 flow is represented by bottomland boundary.


map background search result map search result map Compactional deformation bands in Wingate Sandstone; additional evidence of an impact origin for Upheaval Dome, Utah Exotic plant invasion alters nitrogen dynamics in an arid grassland View eastward across Salt Canyon. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. n.d. Upheaval Dome. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. n.d. Castle Arch in west fork of Horse Canyon. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1959. Spatial data sets to support conservation planning along the Colorado River in Utah Riparian Understory Model and Component Layers Human Features on the Colorado River Bottomland Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bat Feeding Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Size of Tree Patch for Riparian Overstory Model Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Rocky Fringe Snakes Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Overbank flow 2011 for Potential for Natural Recovery Model Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bottomland Boundary of the Colorado River Divided at 1-km intervals Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - 2010 Low Flow Grassland State and Transition Map of Canyonlands National Park Needles District and Indian Creek Grazing Allotment Chesler Park in The Needles, looking northeast. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1971. Trail to Druid Arch, near its beginning at northeast corner of Chesler Park. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1970. Initial core data of 2018 sediment cores from Lake Powell, Utah Precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation data from 36 experimental plots in southeastern Utah, near Canyonlands National Park (2015 - 2018) Precipitation, soil moisture, and vegetation data from 36 experimental plots in southeastern Utah, near Canyonlands National Park (2015 - 2018) Compactional deformation bands in Wingate Sandstone; additional evidence of an impact origin for Upheaval Dome, Utah View eastward across Salt Canyon. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. n.d. Upheaval Dome. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. n.d. Castle Arch in west fork of Horse Canyon. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1959. Chesler Park in The Needles, looking northeast. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1971. Trail to Druid Arch, near its beginning at northeast corner of Chesler Park. Canyonlands National Park, Utah. 1970. Exotic plant invasion alters nitrogen dynamics in an arid grassland Grassland State and Transition Map of Canyonlands National Park Needles District and Indian Creek Grazing Allotment Riparian Understory Model and Component Layers Spatial data sets to support conservation planning along the Colorado River in Utah Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - 2010 Low Flow Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Rocky Fringe Snakes Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bat Feeding Model Output Data for Colorado River in Utah Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Size of Tree Patch for Riparian Overstory Model Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Overbank flow 2011 for Potential for Natural Recovery Model Conservation Planning for the Colorado River in Utah - Bottomland Boundary of the Colorado River Divided at 1-km intervals Human Features on the Colorado River Bottomland Initial core data of 2018 sediment cores from Lake Powell, Utah