USGS Scientists helped introduce a shared watershed restoration project in Patagonia, Arizona, to the USFS Southwestern Regional Leadership Team.
USGS Scientists working with US Forest Service in Sky Island Restoration Collaborative (SIRC)
Collaboration includes partnerships with the USFWS Partners for Fish & Wildlife, Borderlands Restoration, the Hummingbird Monitoring Network, and Sky Island Alliance, who restored two tributaries of Harshaw Creek by installing erosion control structures and re-planting pollinator-supporting native species. Coronado National Forest hydrologists were charged with monitoring "instream flow," and worked with USGS to advance the monitoring effort to collect discharge measurements for watershed models.