Contents
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Introduction
Deborah M. Finch
Jeffrey C. Whitney
Rio Grande Ecosystems: Proceedings Introduction ...................................................... 3
People, Culture, and Communication
Joseph A. Tainter
Rio Grande Basin and the Modern World: Understanding Scale and Context .............. 7
Richard D. Periman
Dynamic Human Landscapes of the Rio del Oso: Restoration and the
Simulation of Past Ecological Conditions in the Upper Rio Grande Basin ............ 12
José A. Rivera
Water Democracies on the Upper Rio Grande, 1598-1998 ......................................... 20
Jim Winder
Resolving Resource Conflict: a Bigger Pie .................................................................. 29
Steve Harris
How Great a Thirst? Assembling a River Restoration Toolkit ...................................... 32
Carol Raish
Española/Canjilon Pilot Study: Economic, Social, and Cultural Aspects of
Public Land Grazing on the Santa Fe and Carson National Forests ..................... 35
Steve Kluge
“Southwest Strategy” Update ....................................................................................... 39
Sarah Kotchian
Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Basin Coalition ......................................................................... 42
River and Riparian Issues
Jeffrey C. Whitney
Watershed/River Channel Linkages: The Upper Rio Grande Basin
and the Middle Rio Grande Bosque ...................................................................... 45
J. S. O’Brien
W. T. Fullerton
Simulation of Rio Grande Floodplain Inundation Using FLO-2D ................................. 52
Gail Stockton
D. Michael Roark
Upper Rio Grande Water Operations Model: a Tool for Enhanced
System Management ............................................................................................ 61
Jan M. H. Hendrickx
Salinity Management in the Rio Grande Bosque ......................................................... 68
J. Bruce J. Harrison
Jelle Beekma
Graciela Rodriguez-Marin
Michael D. Marcus
Shannon M. House
Nathan A. Bowles
Robert T. Sekiya
J. Steven Glass
Albuquerque’s Constructed Wetland Pilot Project for Wastewater Polishing .............. 72
Ross Coleman
Methods for Increasing Biodiversity in Wetland Creation and
Restoration Efforts ................................................................................................. 79
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Watershed Issues
Carleton S. White
Samuel R. Loftin
Steven Hofstad
Response of Vegetation, Soil Nitrogen, and Sediment Transport to a
Prescribed Fire in Semiarid Grasslands ................................................................ 83
Bill Fleming
Watershed Health: an Evaluation Index for New Mexico ............................................. 93
Dave Pawelek
Roy Jemison
Daniel Neary
A Constructed Wet Meadow Model for Forested Lands in the Southwest .................. 97
Teresa L. Newberry
Effect of Spatial and Temporal Variablilty on Water Relations and
Growth in Pinyon Pine: III. Whole Tree Response ................................................ 99
Alan R. Johnson
Bruce T. Milne
Peter Hraber
Analysis of Change in Piñon-Juniper Woodlands
Based on Aerial Photography, 1930’s -1980’s ..................................................... 106
Deborah Ulinski Potter
Applications for Predicting Precipitation and Vegetation Patterns at
Landscape Scale Using Lightning Strike Data .................................................... 112
Restoration and Monitoring Issues
Samuel R. Loftin
Trial by Fire: Restoration of Middle Rio Grande Upland Ecosystems ........................ 119
James R. Thibault
Douglas L. Moyer
Clifford N. Dahm
H. Maurice Valett
Michael C. Marshall
Effects of Livestock Grazing on Morphology, Hydrology and Nutrient
Retention in Four Riparian/Stream Ecosystems, New Mexico, USA .................. 123
Mark D. Ankeny
L. Bradford Sumrall
Kuo-Chin Hsu
Establishing Riparian Vegetation Through Use of a Self-Cleaning
Siphon System .................................................................................................... 129
Joanne Mount
Vegetation Classification on the Middle Rio Grande ................................................. 135
Ondrea C. Linderoth
Restoration Efforts in the Rio Grande Valley State Park ........................................... 136
Esteban Muldavin
Elizabeth Milford
Yvonne Chauvin
River Bar Vegetation Mowing Response in the Middle Rio Grande .......................... 139
David R. Dreesen
Gregory A. Fenchel
Joseph G. Fraser
Establishment of Rio Grande Cottonwood Seedlings Using Micro-irrigation
of Xeric Flood Plain Sites .................................................................................... 151
Clifford S. Crawford
Lisa M. Ellis
Daniel Shaw
Nancy E. Umbreit
Restoration and Monitoring in the Middle Rio Grande Bosque:
Current Status of Flood Pulse Related Efforts .................................................... 158
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Robert R. Parmenter
Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program:
Measuring Ecosystem Reponses to Environmental Change .............................. 164
Todd R. Caplan
Heather A. Pratt
Samuel R. Loftin
Influence of Mycorrhizal Source and Seeding Methods on Native Grass
Species Grown in Soils from a Disturbed Site ..................................................... 170
Joy Rosen
Roy Jemison
David Pawelek
Daniel Neary
Using GIS Technology to Analyze and Understand Wet Meadow Ecosystems ........ 175
Maria L. Sonett
Integrated Surface Management for Pipeline Construction:
the Mid-America Pipeline Company Four Corners Project .................................. 180
Biodiversity and Endangered Species
Alice Chung-MacCoubrey Maternity Roosts of Bats at the Bosque Del Apache
National Wildlife Refuge: a Preliminary Report ................................................... 187
Michael D. Means
Deborah M. Finch
Bird Migration Through Middle Rio Grande Riparian
Forests, 1994 to 1997 ......................................................................................... 191
Deborah M. Finch
Jeffrey F. Kelly
Status and Migration of the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher in New Mexico ........... 197
Peter B. Stacey
Angela Hodgson
Biological Diversity in Montane Riparian Ecosystems: the Case of the
Mexican Spotted Owl .......................................................................................... 204
Jean-Luc E. Cartron
Scott H. Stoleson
R. Roy Johnson
Riparian Dependence, Biogeographic Status, and Likelihood of
Endangerment in Landbirds of the Southwest .................................................... 211
Linda S. DeLay
Deborah M. Finch
Sandra Brantley
Richard Fagerlund
Michael D. Means
Jeffrey F. Kelly
Arthropods of Native and Exotic Vegetation and Their Association with
Willow Flycatchers and Wilson’s Warblers .......................................................... 216
Jeffrey F. Kelly
Deborah M. Finch
Use of Saltcedar Vegetation by Landbirds Migrating Through the
Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge ..................................................... 222
Bob Calamusso
John N. Rinne
Native Montane Fishes of the Middle Rio Grande Ecosystem: Status,
Threats, and Conservation .................................................................................. 231
Workshop Summary
Barbara A. Coe
Future of the Middle Rio Grande ............................................................................... 241