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A group of rainbow trout swims upstream in the Lees Ferry fishery downstream of Glen Canyon Dam in the Colorado River. 

A person fishing for rainbow trout or brown trout in the Lees Ferry fishery in the Colorado River downstream of Glen Canyon Dam in Grand Canyon National Park.

Flowering Arrowweed (Pluchea sericea) in a riparian plant experiment in a greenhouse, to assess how flooding or drought can affect this native stream-dependent species. Arrowweed is one of the species that grows abundantly along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. Photo by Emily Palmquist, USGS.

USGS scientists measure biological soil crust cover in the study grassland.

USGS SBSC staff surveying biocrust at a protected study site. Photo courtesy of Mike Duniway, Sept 2019.

SBSC's foodbase team conducts aquatic insect studies downstream of Glen Canyon Dam in the Colorado River during "Bug Flows" - a modified flow regime designed to benefit insects.

Fishing at dusk at Lees Ferry on the Colorado River, Glen Canyon. Photo by David Herasimtschuk, Freshwaters Illustrated. 

Southwest Biological Science Center fact sheet front cover. Fact Sheet available at FS 2019-3041: Sound Science to Serve the American Southwest (usgs.gov)

USGS Restoration Assessment and Monitoring Program for the Southwest (RAMPS) is helping to build capacity in ecosystem restoration on the Navajo Nation with a series of projects in collaboration with Navajo Nation Department of Natural Hertiage, Dine Native Plant Program, and the Native-led non-profit Tolani Lake Enterprises.

Arrieta Wash in southern Arizona, July 2019. Arrieta Wash is in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge, just north of the U.S. and Mexico border, and is western yellow-billed cuckoo habitat. Photo by Charles Drost, SBSC, USGS.

Dr. Rodrigo Macip with students, checking traps for mud turtles at Pátzcuaro lake, Michoacán, México. Dr. Macip is an authority on Méxican turtle ecology. He is a visiting scientist at USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ.

A western yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) on a branch, Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, NV, July 2019. Photo by Peter Pearsall, USGS.

Image screen shot of GCMRC sediment monitoring application

A USGS technician places a pin drop on a transect during monitoring soil and vegetation outcomes on a reclaimed oil or gas pad near Grand Junction, Colorado. Photo by Mike Duniway, SBSC, USGS.

Dr Rodrigo Macip is an authority on Méxican turtle ecology. He is currently a visiting scientist at USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center's Flagstaff's campus.

A post-fire landscape in the Tonto National Monument in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona after a wildland fire

Graham's beardtongue (Penstemon grahamii) in the Book Cliffs south of the Uinta Basin, Utah. This species is confined to the Green River Formation, which contains oil shale that is actively mined across the species' range. Photo by Daniel Winkler, SBSC, USGS.

A pumpjack on an active oil or gas drilling site near Farmington, New Mexico. Photo by Mike Duniway, USGS, SBSC.

Lewis flax or Blue flax (Linum lewisii) flower at Canyonlands Research Center, Utah. Photo by Katie Laushman, USGS, SBSC.

Dr. Brian Healy is a research biologist and post doctoral research fellow at the US Geological Survey

A partially-buried archaeological site in Grand Canyon National Park threatened by gully erosion of sediment on a river terrace near the Colorado River. Photo by Helen Fairley, USGS, SBSC, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, May 2019.