Images

The Colorado River reflects the blue sky and red walls in Grand Canyon. Photo by Maria Dzul, USGS.

A young-of-year humpback chub (less than 1 year old) during routine monitoring of humpback chub populations in the Colorado River, Grand Canyon. Photo courtesy of Maria Dzul, USGS.

A motorboat travels on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon during a humpback chub monitoring trip. Photo by Maria Dzul, USGS.

The Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest (RAMPS) is supporting the Dine Native Plant Program on the Navajo Nation with increasing the supply of locally adapted native seeds for restoration.

A wetland area by Boulder Mountain, Utah, on a cloudy day in the fall, with autumn colors in the trees. Photo taken in September 2021 by Shannon Lencioni, SBSC, USGS.

Shrubland that has been grazed near Boulder Mountain, Utah, during sunset, September 2021. Photo by Shannon Lencioni, SBSC, USGS.

Cactus blossom in the southeast Arizona grasslands, looking into Mexico.

Cactus blossom in the southeast Arizona grasslands, looking into Mexico.

Sunset clouds above Grand Canyon's colorful canyon walls, with riparian trees in the foreground. Photo by Emily Palmquist, USGS.

SBSC technician Morgan Andrews collects native hairy false goldenaster (Heterotheca villosa) seeds for data and restoration research near Moab, UT in September 2021. Photo by Shannon Lencioni, SBSC, USGS.

A photo of brown trout (Salmo trutta). Original image was from USGS NY Water Science Center, public domain.

Nick Paretti, Arizona Water Science Center (AZWSC), measures water flow at a tributary to the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Photo courtesy of Kat Cooney, USGS, AZWSC.

Research ecologist Emily Palmquist collecting plant data during riparian vegetation monitoring along the Colorado River.

Jackie, a USGS technician, keys riparian plants along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, AZ. The USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center conducts vegetation monitoring as a science provider for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program. Photo by Emily Palmquist, USGS.

Degraded dryland habitat on the Colorado Plateau. Photo by Shannon Lencioni, SBSC, USGS.

Native common reed (Phragmites australis spp. americanus) at Colorado River Mile -7.7L, near Lunch Beach. Common reed is a culturally important species to the Tribes traditionally affiliated with this region. It plays a role in multiple emergence stories, is used in a wide variety of ceremonies, and has had many utilitarian uses.

Pluchea sericea (arrowweed) reeds on the bank of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Here they are inundated by the river. Photo by Emily Palmquist, taken during riparian vegetation monitoring by USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.

RestoreNet is partnering with the Gornish lab at the University of Arizona to better understand how a plant’s source location (provenance) influences its performance in a restoration setting. This greenhouse experiment will be conducted by PhD student, Sierra Lauman.

Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Photo by Chris Benson, USGS.

A panorama of Cathedral Valley, Capital Reef National Park, Utah. Photo by Chris Benson, USGS, 2021.

A USGS research ecologist and botanist, Emily Palmquist, conducts riparian vegetation monitoring along the Colorado River just below Glen Canyon Dam. This work is part of the research conducted by the Southwest Biological Science Center's Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center as the science provider for the Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Program.