Watershed Restoration Project

Julie Thompson ; Betsy Macfarlan

关键词: BIOMASS;    DESIGN;    ENERGY EFFICIENCY;    IMPLEMENTATION;    MANAGEMENT;    PLANNING;    PLANTS;    STREAMS;    WATERSHEDS watershed restoration;    ecological;    Pinyon Juniper Nevada;    wildlife habitat improvement;    fire prevention;    pygmy forest;   

DOI  :  10.2172/920502
RP-ID  :  DOE/GO/14260-01
PID  :  OSTI ID: 920502
Others  :  TRN: US200806%%99

学科分类：燃料技术

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

In 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy issued the Eastern Nevada Landscape Coalition (ENLC) funding to implement ecological restoration in Gleason Creek and Smith Valley Watersheds. This project was made possible by congressionally directed funding that was provided through the US Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of the Biomass Program. The Ely District Bureau of Land Management (Ely BLM) manages these watersheds and considers them priority areas within the Ely BLM district. These three entities collaborated to address the issues and concerns of Gleason Creek and Smith Valley and prepared a restoration plan to improve the watersheds’ ecological health and resiliency. The restoration process began with watershed-scale vegetation assessments and state and transition models to focus on restoration sites. Design and implementation of restoration treatments ensued and were completed in January 2007. This report describes the restoration process ENLC undertook from planning to implementation of two watersheds in semi-arid Eastern Nevada.