Images

View of the Colorado River in Eastern Grand Canyon below Basalt Creek, Grand Canyon National Park. Photo by Mike Moran, USGS.

Mature biocrust with lichen. Photo taken by SBSC during surveys, 2018, courtesy of Erika Geiger.

Well pad reclamation experiment, Vernal, Utah, December 8, 2018. Photo by Rebecca Mann, USGS, SBSC.

Working to develop climate adaptation actions on National Park Service lands on the Colorado Plateau and 4-corners region.

RestoreNet locations are testing commonly used restoration techniques, including pitting, mulching, and above-ground micro sites. This photo shows the mulching treatment, which can increase soil moisture and lead to higher plant survival under some conditions.

RestoreNet locations are testing commonly used restoration techniques, including pitting, mulching, and above-ground micro sites. Here, pits have filled with water, illustrating how this technique increases soil moisture by capturing rainwater.

RestoreNet locations are testing commonly used restoration techniques, including pitting, mulching, and above-ground micro sites. Here, metal crosses create an above-ground microsite that can increase soil moisture by providing shade and collecting debris under some conditions.

Burned, hollowed out base of a sequoia tree in Sequoia National Park

Criollo heritage cattle stand in a corral at Canyonlands Research Center, Utah. Criollo cows are descended from Iberian, or Spanish, stock brought to Mexico hundreds of years ago. They are hardier than Angus cattle and better suited to dry climates.

Criollo cattle, a heritage breed of cows, at Canyonlands Research Center, Utah. Photo by Mike Duniway, USGS, SBSC.

San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) with a radio collar inside the Panoche Solar Farm in the San Joaquin Desert. Photo by Tory Westall (Stanislaus State).

Information about species and solar facilities can be found in this paper:

Looking down on Glen Canyon Dam jet tubes releasing water into the Colorado River for a November 2018 high flow experiment. The increase in flow of the Colorado River downstream of the dam mobilizes sand at the bottom of the river and that sand rebuilds sandbars in Grand Canyon.

Glen Canyon Dam jet tubes releasing water into the Colorado River for a November 2018 high flow experiment. The increase in flow of the Colorado River downstream of the dam mobilizes sand at the bottom of the river and that sand rebuilds sandbars in Grand Canyon.

Remote Camera, 30-mile Camp (River MIe 30.7)

A completed restoration field trial site just after installation. Half of the site is seeded, and the other half had plants and weed cloth (white fabric) installed.

These workers are planting seedlings as part of the restoration field trial network. Each garden in the network is examining seedlings and seeds in conjunction with restoration treatments to better und

View of a recently installed Restoration Field Trial Network site in the rangelands of Northern Arizona.

Threatened western yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) nestlings in their nest in southern Arizona. The nestlings' feather sheaths (as seen on these young) break and are groomed off by the young bird all within a couple of hours' time, so that the bird transforms from the scaly-looking creature here to a fluffy little fledgling within a single day.

A USGS river research boat investigating a flash flow at Lower National Camp sandbar/beach at National Canyon on the Colorado River in Grand Canyon. This is the third in a series of photos that show before, during and after of a flash flow (not quite a flood) event during summer monsoon. This photo was taken 8/10/2018 by Tom Gushue, USGS.

Lower National Camp at National Canyon, Colorado River, Grand Canyon during a flash flow over part of the sandbar. This is the second of a series of photos that show before, during and after of a flash flow (not quite a flood) event during summer monsoon. This photo was taken 8/10/2018 by Tom Gushue, USGS.
 

Lower National Camp at National Canyon, Colorado River, Grand Canyon before a flash flow on the sandbar. The first of a series of photos that show before, during and after of a flash flow (not quite a flood) event during summer monsoon. This photo was taken 8/09/2018 by Tom Gushue, USGS.