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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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
A post-fire landscape in the Tonto National Monument in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona after a wildland fire
A post-fire landscape in the Tonto National Monument in the Sonoran Desert, Arizona after a wildland fire
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Dr. Brian Healy is a research biologist and post doctoral research fellow at the US Geological Survey
A research and monitoring area at a sandbar/sand dune near an archaeological site along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon before encroaching vegetation removal. Photo courtesy of Joel Sankey, USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.
A research and monitoring area at a sandbar/sand dune near an archaeological site along the Colorado River in Grand Canyon before encroaching vegetation removal. Photo courtesy of Joel Sankey, USGS, Southwest Biological Science Center, Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center.
Photographs of a windblown (aeolian) dune in Grand Canyon National Park adjacent to a Colorado river sandbar before (inset) and after vegetation removal conducted by the National Park Service, which is intended to increase aeolian sand transport inland from the river, toward the right side of the photograph. This area is near an archaeological site.
Photographs of a windblown (aeolian) dune in Grand Canyon National Park adjacent to a Colorado river sandbar before (inset) and after vegetation removal conducted by the National Park Service, which is intended to increase aeolian sand transport inland from the river, toward the right side of the photograph. This area is near an archaeological site.