Document for planning and reporting on invasive treatment

Form for planning and documenting revegetation actions on a restoration site.

To what extent has invasive riparian vegetation (IRV) treatment reversed channel narrowing and reduced dynamism trends? Paired treated and untreated reaches at 15 sites along 13 rivers were compared before and after treatment using repeat aerial imagery to assess long-term (~10 year) channel change due to treatment on a regional scale across the Southwest U.S. Wieting et al. found that IRV treatment significantly increased channel width and floodplain destruction.

  Author(s): R. Roy Johnson; Steven W. Carothers; Deborah M. Finch; Kenneth J. Kingsley; John T. Stanley   Fifty years ago, riparian habitats were not recognized for their extensive and critical contributions to wildlife and the ecosystem function of watersheds. This changed as riparian values were identified and documented, and the science of riparian ecology developed steadily. Papers in this volume range from the more mesic northwestern United States to the arid Southwest and Mexico.
Author(s): Steven W. Carothers; R. Roy Johnson; Deborah M. Finch; Kenneth J. Kingsley; Robert H. Hamre   In the Preface to volume 1, we discuss the development of riparian ecology as one of the newest of ecological fields that gained significant momentum in the 1950s and 1960s as part of the general “riparian movement” in the United States. The field expanded rapidly throughout the latter half of the 1900s. Volume 2 involves more than two dozen authors - most with decades of experience - who expand upon riparian and other topics introduced in volume 1.
      Supervised Classification of Russian Olive in the Animas Valley with NAIP Imagery and Object-Based Image Analysis   Anna Riling1   1University of Denver, Department of Geography and the Environment, Denver, Colorado, annariling@gmail.com     Object-based image analysis (OBIA) incorporates not
This fact sheet from Utah State University discusses cut stump herbicide treatment, which can be used to control Russian olive at any time of the year.

Developed by the Pahranagat Valley Cooperative Weed Management Area, this fact sheet provides information on the ecology and treatment of Russian olive. 

This paper reviews the pertinent scientific literature in order to determine the status of E. angustifolia as a riparian invader and to suggest ecological reasons for its success.