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RAMPS: Restoration Assessment & Monitoring Program for the Southwest

RAMPS: Restoration Assessment & Monitoring Program for the Southwest

AMPS assists federal and state land management agencies in co-developing rigorous, objective, and timely science-based decision frameworks and tools to improve the condition of degraded landscapes in the desert Southwest.

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RAMPS: Restoration Assessment & Monitoring Program for the Southwest

RAMPS: Restoration Assessment & Monitoring Program for the Southwest

AMPS assists federal and state land management agencies in co-developing rigorous, objective, and timely science-based decision frameworks and tools to improve the condition of degraded landscapes in the desert Southwest.

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Desert marigold (Baileya multiradiata) blooming in a monitoring quadrat at a RestoreNet site

Desert marigold (Baileya multiradiata) blooming in a monitoring quadrat at a RestoreNet site

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A photograph of the sun setting in a southwestern USA desert.

Sunset in the Desert Southwest

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Predicting the effects of solar energy development on plants and wildlife in the Desert Southwest, United States

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Native and invasive plants in desert southwest.

Native and invasive plants in desert southwest.

Featured Films and Shorts
Man talking about a map of Yellowstone on a TV screen

YVO Update: Activity at Yellowstone and Volcanoes of Desert Southwest

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U.S. Geological Survey Research Ecologist Jeff Lovich holding a radioed desert tortoise at the Mesa wind farm near Palm Springs,

USGS Scientist Wins Prestigious Global Turtle Conservation Award

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Repeat photography of Glen Canyon Dam site, 1889 -1992

The Southwest Repeat Photography Collection (previously 'Desert Laboratory Repeat Photography Collection')

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Quantifying development to inform management of Mojave and Sonoran desert tortoise habitat in the American southwest

Center News
Dense stand of Buffelgrass choking out native vegetation in Saguaro National Park, AZ

A decade of research reveals best practices to control highly invasive nonnative buffelgrass in the desert Southwest

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Water-use trends in the desert southwest: 1950-2000

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Fundamental concepts of recharge in the Desert Southwest: A regional modeling perspective

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Image: A Desert Tortoise in the Mojave Desert

A Desert Tortoise in the Mojave Desert

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Effects of rapid urbanization on streamflow, erosion, and sedimentation in a desert stream in the American Southwest

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Subsidence (2004-2009) in and near lakebeds of the Mojave River and Morongo groundwater basins, southwest Mojave Desert, California

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Hydrogeologic factors that influence ground water movement in the desert southwest United States

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Water resources in the desert southwest

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[MITDcam] Kīlauea upper Southwest Rift Zone

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Desert basins of the Southwest

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Principal components of climate variation in the Desert Southwest (ver. 2.0, September 2019)

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A road runner by a desert tortoise burrow

A road runner by a desert tortoise burrow

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Color photograph of trail with cracks

February 6, 2024 — Aerial survey of Kīlauea Koa‘e fault system and Southwest Rift Zone

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A loggerhead shrike next to a desert tortoise burrow

A loggerhead shrike next to a desert tortoise burrow

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Desert Tortoise on road WERC

Human Influence on Desert Tortoise Habitats

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Rock wren at desert tortoise burrow collecting grasshopper

A rock wren at a desert tortoise burrow collecting a grasshopper

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A rangewide conservation and research program for the desert tortoise in the desert southwest

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Ash blanketing a desert landscape

Kīlauea Volcano - Ash Blanketing Kau Desert

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View looking southwest along the Southwest Rift Zone of Kīlauea Volcano.

[MITDcam] - Kīlauea's upper Southwest Rift Zone, looking northwest

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Burrowing owl defense display at a desert tortoise burrow

Burrowing owl defense display at a desert tortoise burrow

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Mapping habitat for multiple species in the Desert Southwest

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A cactus wren gathering nesting material at a desert tortoise burrow

A cactus wren gathering nesting material at a desert tortoise burrow

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