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A Guide for Planning Riparian Treatments in New Mexico
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE A Guide for Planning Riparian Treatments in New Mexico United States Department of Agriculture New Mexico Natural Resources Conservation Service New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts NRCS Los Lunas Plant Materials Center September 2007 I. FOREWARD This guide has been prepared by the USDA New Mexico Natural Resources Conservation Service and the New Mexico Association of Conservation Districts, through funding for the restoration of riparian and watershed areas in the Pecos and Rio Grande Watersheds. The experiences of NRCS staff and Soil and Water Conservation Districts staff are reflected in the guide. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE II. TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Foreward II. Table of Contents III. Introduction IV. Inventory, Analysis, and Design ................................................................................................1 Step 1 – Objective Step 2 – Obtaining Resource Data on the Site 1. Locate the Site 2. Soils Map and Interpretations 3. Climate 4. Hydrology 5. Channel Condition 6. Plants Present and Potential 7. Wildlife Habitat 8. Wildlife Depredation Step 3 – Analyze the Condition of the Riparian Area 1. Hydrologic Factors 2. Soils - Erosion and Deposition Factors 3. Vegetation Factors Step 4 – Design Considerations 1. Control of Invasive Woody Species and Subsequent Herbaceous Weeds 2. Streambank Stabilization 3. Channel Stabilization 4. Future Land Use 5. Management of Livestock and Wildlife Use 6. Planting Riparian Areas with Shallow Water Tables 7. Planting of Former Riparian Areas with Deep Water Tables 8. Criteria for Wildlife Habitat 9. Maintenance and Monitoring V. Planting Scenarios ......................................................................................................................17 1. Pond Vegetation Treatment 2. Pond Vegetation Treatment with Grass Seeding 3. Riverbank Willow Treatment on Sandy Soils 4. -
Fuels Reduction and Restoration in the Bosque of the Middle Rio Grande
By applying treatments, the team worked to restore New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande bosque, the most extensive, remaining cottonwood forest in the Southwest. Photo by USDA Forest Service. Pentimento: Fuels Reduction and Restoration in the Bosque of the Middle Rio Grande Summary The Middle Rio Grande of New Mexico is the most extensive, remaining bosque, or cottonwood forest in the southwest. Alterations caused by humans—damming and channeling the river, controlling floods, and planting non-native trees—have disrupted the cycles of the earlier ecosystem. Without periodic flooding, native cottonwoods cannot regenerate. Invasive exotic plants such as Tamarisk, also known as salt cedar, and Russian olive have filled in the gaps and open spaces, increased fuel loads, and continue to replace native trees and shrubs after wildfires. Cottonwoods, not a fire-adapted species, are now at risk from wildfire and replacement by invasive plants. An array of fuel treatments applied to study sites reduced invasive woody plants in the bosque. Resprout rates for exotic trees were low overall. Survival rates of transplanted native plant species were high. Restoration had various effects on birds, animals, amphibians, and reptiles of the bosque. Species that prefer a more open, less-cluttered habitat benefited, and their numbers increased. Species that prefer a closed, shrubbier habitat altered by invasives declined. Fire Science Brief Issue 7 April 2008 Page 1 www.firescience.gov Key Findings • Treatments reduced fuel loads, which will save native trees not adapted to fire from burning in fire. • Treatments, such as deep mulch, reduced the ability of invasive plants to regrow. -
Southern Comfort
FROM THE NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR MUSICAL THEAtre’s PresideNT Welcome to our 24th Annual Festival of New Musicals! The Festival is one of the highlights of the NAMT year, bringing together 600+ industry professionals for two days of intense focus on new musical theatre works and the remarkably talented writing teams who create them. This year we are particularly excited not only about the quality, but also about the diversity—in theme, style, period, place and people—represented across the eight shows that were selected from over 150 submissions. We’re visiting 17th-century England and early 20th century New York. We’re spending some time in the world of fairy tales—but not in ways you ever have before. We’re visiting Indiana and Georgia and the world of reality TV. Regardless of setting or stage of development, every one of these shows brings something new—something thought-provoking, funny, poignant or uplifting—to the musical theatre field. This Festival is about helping these shows and writers find their futures. Beyond the Festival, NAMT is active year-round in supporting members in their efforts to develop new works. This year’s Songwriters Showcase features excerpts from just a few of the many shows under development (many with collaboration across multiple members!) to salute the amazing, extraordinarily dedicated, innovative work our members do. A final and heartfelt thank you: our sponsors and donors make this Festival, and all of NAMT’s work, possible. We tremendously appreciate your support! Many thanks, too, to the Festival Committee, NAMT staff and all of you, our audience. -
Drought Challenges Staff, Birds, and Visitors at Bosque Del Apache
WINTER 2021 Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2021. Editors: Lynn Deming & Deb Caldwell. Graphic Design: Michaela Mabry. Bosque Watch is published quarterly by Friends of Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, Inc., P.O. Box 340, San Antonio, NM 87832. 575-838-2120 [email protected]; www.friendsofbosquedelapache.org DROUGHT CHALLENGES STAFF, BIRDS, AND VISITORS AT BOSQUE DEL APACHE Many of you have noticed that the wetlands look quite different this year at Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Drought necessitated difficult choices and refuge staff channeled all available water into the units with the highest food productivity. Drought is nothing new to New Mexico, and the refuge is dealing with the impact of several consecutive dry years. “We’ve had very little water coming into the system that feeds the wetlands where some larger concentrations of birds normally loaf,” said refuge manager Deborah Williams. “This season, birds and other wildlife are dispersed throughout refuge lands and not concentrated along Highway 1, as in more normal water years. There have still been lots of viewing opportunities along the Tour Loop, but the birds are more Drought Affects Viewing dispersed than visitors are accustomed to and the viewing Staff are using groundwater wells on the refuge to supplement areas are changing as we move available water between units some wetlands and meadows to continue to provide with the highest food concentrations.” important habitat and food for wintering birds. However, because of the limited available surface and groundwater, the refuge has not filled the traditional roosting units that have little to no food value for migrating birds. -
Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge “I saw them first many Novembers ago and heard their triumphant trumpet calls, a hundred or more sandhill cranes riding south on a thermal above the Rio Grande Valley, and that day their effortless flight and their brassy music got into my soul.” Charles Kuralt Introduction Bosque del Apache means “woods of the Apache,” named for the Apaches that routinely camped in the riverside forest. Today, Bosque del Apache is known as one of the most spectacular refuges in North America. Each autumn, tens of thousands of birds— including sandhill cranes, Arctic geese and ducks—make the refuge their winter home. The air is filled with the honking of geese and the guttural call of cranes. Flocks of snow geese lift off from their feeding grounds when frightened by a stalking coyote or eagle. At dusk, flights of geese and cranes return to roost in the marshes or on the Rio Grande. In the summer, Bosque del Apache, though quiet, remains an oasis in the surrounding arid lands. Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1939 to provide “a refuge and breeding grounds for migratory birds and other wildlife” and to develop wintering grounds for greater sandhill cranes, which were then endangered. Our present goals are to: Provide habitat and protection for endangered species. Provide habitat and protection for migratory birds during the winter with special emphasis on sandhill cranes, snow geese, dabbler ducks, and Canada geese. Provide habitat and protection for resident animals. Provide the general public with an Left: Photo by opportunity to see and understand A. -
Chapter 3. Vanishing Riparian Mesquite Bosques: Their Uniqueness and Recovery Potential
Chapter 3. Vanishing Riparian Mesquite Bosques: Their Uniqueness and Recovery Potential R. Roy Johnson, Tanner S. Carothers, and Steven W. Carothers Introduction The “mesquite bosque” (Spanish for “forest” or “woodland”), one of the most unique and productive southwestern riparian habitat types, was once far more abundant than it is today. Twenty-five years ago, Stromberg (1993), with a focus on Arizona, provided an excellent review on the ecology, decline, existing threats, and potential for recovery of these mesquite forests. By 1993 the iconic mesquite bosque riparian habitat was in serious decline, due primarily to anthropogenic activities. Stromberg (1993) observed that previous attempts at habitat restoration were of limited success and indicated that much of the significant bosque habitat loss was largely the result of human-induced changes in the biotic and abiotic conditions and processes in river floodplains specifically required by species of mesquite (Prosopis spp.). In this chapter, we update elements of Stromberg’s 1993 review and provide a classification between two types of bosques based on distinct vegetation associations along a relatively dry to wet riparian continuum. We also discuss the uniqueness of mesquite bosques as wildlife habitat and chronicle the loss of some of the more distinctive of these forests in Arizona as well as conditions that led to their disappearance. Lastly, we suggest opportunities for a timely approach to mesquite habitat restoration that will likely arise as a result of recent litigation resolution between the Department of Agriculture and the Center for Biological Diversity and the Maricopa Audubon Society. The Mesquite Bosque Mesquite (Prosopis spp.) forests, or bosques, historically represented one of the most widespread of riparian communities in the Southwest. -
Ashby's Harold and Maude
1 Harold and Maude Reviewed by Garry Victor Hill Directed by Hal Ashby. Produced by Colin Higgins and Charles B. Mulverhill. Screenplay by Colin Higgins. Production Design by Michael D. Haller. Cinematography by John Alonzo. Songs by Cat Stevens. Edited by William A. Sawyer & Edward Warschilka. Costumes by William Theiss. Casting by Lynn Stalmaster 2 Cinematic length: 91minutes. Distributed by Cinema International Corporation. Company: Paramount. Cinematic release: 20th December 1971 (USA) DVD/Blue Ray release 2012. Check for ratings. Rating 80%. All images are taken from the Public Domain and Wikipedia Commons with permission. Written Without Prejudice Cast Ruth Gordon as Maude Bud Cort as Harold Vivian Pickles as Harold’s mother Cyril Cusack as Glaucus Charles Tyner as General Ball, Harold's uncle Eric Christmas as a Priest George Wood as the Psychiatrist Tom Skerritt as the Motorcycle Officer Judy Engles as Candy Gulf, Harold's first blind date Shari Summers as Edith Phern, Harold's second blind date Ellen Geer as Harold’s last blind date Henry Diekoff as the Butler * Review A comedy that begins with a mother finding her teenage son hanging must surely be heading for disaster. When she ignores his dangling body it is not heading for puzzlement: it is already there - and so is the audience. Then Harold, the supposedly dead son reveals that he is alive, and has been playing a strange game. Immaculately dressed in designer clothes, a model of courtesy, his surface normality covers a fascination with all aspects of death. He uses a hearse as his car, he has a collection of weapons which are props in his numerous differently staged faked suicides. -
Formation and Destruction of a Gila River Mesquite Bosque Community
Minckley and Clark Mesquite Bosque 23 • Introduction Formation and Extensive bosques of mature Honey and Velvet Mesquite (Prosopis glandulosa, P. velutina)I vegetated alluvial flood- Destruction of a Gila plains of subtropical Southwestern rivers in pre-settlement times (Brandt, 1951; Lowe, 1964; Brown et al., 1977; Davis, 1982). The largest of these (e.g., San Xavier, Komatke, and River Mesquite Bosque Texas Hill) have been destroyed (Minckley and Brown, 1982) and those which persist are under severe pressure from man's Community water diversion and pumpage, agricultural clearing, and cut- ting for firewood (Phillips et al., 1964; Lacey et al., 1975; Johnson, 1979; McNatt, 1979; Minckley and Rinne, 1984). Invasion by introduced saltcedar (Tamarix chinensis) also has W. L. Minckley taken its toll. That pest now dominates thousands of hectares formerly supporting bosques and other native riparian forma- and Thomas 0. Clark tions (Horton et al., 1960; Horton, 1964 et seq.; Robinson, 1965; Department of Zoology Haase, 1972; Turner, 1974; Ohmart et al., 1977; Turner and and Center for Environmental Studies Karpiscak, 1980; Ohmart and Anderson, 1982). Isolated rem- Arizona State University nants of native vegetation on terraces along a few Arizona rivers constitute instructive examples of bosque formations. Floods in 1978-79 removed much of one such mature commu- nity east of Safford, Graham County. That natural event plus historic documentation of age and origin of the bosque prompted this report. This paper results in part from research supported by Contract No. YA-512-CT6-216 between the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and Arizona State University. Sara Frischknecht typed the manuscript; P. -
Harold and Maude Dating Questionnaire
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United States Department of the Interior
United States Department of the Interior FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office 2105 Osuna Road NE Albuquerque, New Mexico 87113 Telephone 505-346-2525 Fax 505-346-2542 www.fws.gov/ southwest/es/newrnexico/ March 15, 2017 Cons. No.02ENNM00-2017-F-0331 Memorandum To: Area Manager, Bureau of Reclamation, Albuquerque Area Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Attn: Jennifer Faler) From: Field Supervisor, Fish and Wildlife Service, New Mexico Ecological Services Field Office (NMESFO), Albuquerque, New Mexico ~c..~ ~ Subject: Biological and Conference Opinion for the Central Socorro Bosque Restoration Project Treatment Plan, Consultation Number 02ENNM00-2017-F-0331 Thank you for your request for formal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531-1544; ESA), as amended. The Bureau of Reclamation's (Reclamation) Biological Assessment (BA) was dated March 3, 2017. At issue are impacts that may result from New Mexico State Forestry's proposed 2-year Central Socorro Bosque Restoration Project Treatment Plan located on Reclamation's land in Socorro, New Mexico (Proposed Action). The end date for this Proposed Action is estimated to be at the end of the Summer in 2019. You determined that the Proposed Action may affect and is likely to adversely affect the Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus) (cuckoo) and its proposed critical habitat of the species. You determined that the Proposed Action is not likely to adversely affect the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher (Empidonax trail/ii extimus) (flycatcher) and its critical habitat. We concur with your determination based on the conservation measures proposed within your BA as well as the proximity of the project area being outside of 2016 flycatcher occupied territories. -
SHSU Video Archive Basic Inventory List Department of Library Science
SHSU Video Archive Basic Inventory List Department of Library Science A & E: The Songmakers Collection, Volume One – Hitmakers: The Teens Who Stole Pop Music. c2001. A & E: The Songmakers Collection, Volume One – Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over. c2001. A & E: The Songmakers Collection, Volume Two – Bobby Darin. c2001. A & E: The Songmakers Collection, Volume Two – [1] Leiber & Stoller; [2] Burt Bacharach. c2001. A & E Top 10. Show #109 – Fads, with commercial blacks. Broadcast 11/18/99. (Weller Grossman Productions) A & E, USA, Channel 13-Houston Segments. Sally Cruikshank cartoon, Jukeboxes, Popular Culture Collection – Jesse Jones Library Abbott & Costello In Hollywood. c1945. ABC News Nightline: John Lennon Murdered; Tuesday, December 9, 1980. (MPI Home Video) ABC News Nightline: Porn Rock; September 14, 1985. Interview with Frank Zappa and Donny Osmond. Abe Lincoln In Illinois. 1939. Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon. John Ford, director. (Nostalgia Merchant) The Abominable Dr. Phibes. 1971. Vincent Price, Joseph Cotton. Above The Rim. 1994. Duane Martin, Tupac Shakur, Leon. (New Line) Abraham Lincoln. 1930. Walter Huston, Una Merkel. D.W. Griffith, director. (KVC Entertaiment) Absolute Power. 1996. Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Laura Linney. (Castle Rock Entertainment) The Abyss, Part 1 [Wide Screen Edition]. 1989. Ed Harris. (20th Century Fox) The Abyss, Part 2 [Wide Screen Edition]. 1989. Ed Harris. (20th Century Fox) The Abyss. 1989. (20th Century Fox) Includes: [1] documentary; [2] scripts. The Abyss. 1989. (20th Century Fox) Includes: scripts; special materials. The Abyss. 1989. (20th Century Fox) Includes: special features – I. The Abyss. 1989. (20th Century Fox) Includes: special features – II. Academy Award Winners: Animated Short Films. -
Movies and Mental Illness Using Films to Understand Psychopathology 3Rd Revised and Expanded Edition 2010, Xii + 340 Pages ISBN: 978-0-88937-371-6, US $49.00
New Resources for Clinicians Visit www.hogrefe.com for • Free sample chapters • Full tables of contents • Secure online ordering • Examination copies for teachers • Many other titles available Danny Wedding, Mary Ann Boyd, Ryan M. Niemiec NEW EDITION! Movies and Mental Illness Using Films to Understand Psychopathology 3rd revised and expanded edition 2010, xii + 340 pages ISBN: 978-0-88937-371-6, US $49.00 The popular and critically acclaimed teaching tool - movies as an aid to learning about mental illness - has just got even better! Now with even more practical features and expanded contents: full film index, “Authors’ Picks”, sample syllabus, more international films. Films are a powerful medium for teaching students of psychology, social work, medicine, nursing, counseling, and even literature or media studies about mental illness and psychopathology. Movies and Mental Illness, now available in an updated edition, has established a great reputation as an enjoyable and highly memorable supplementary teaching tool for abnormal psychology classes. Written by experienced clinicians and teachers, who are themselves movie aficionados, this book is superb not just for psychology or media studies classes, but also for anyone interested in the portrayal of mental health issues in movies. The core clinical chapters each use a fabricated case history and Mini-Mental State Examination along with synopses and scenes from one or two specific, often well-known “A classic resource and an authoritative guide… Like the very movies it films to explain, teach, and encourage discussion recommends, [this book] is a powerful medium for teaching students, about the most important disorders encountered in engaging patients, and educating the public.