Rivers, Streams, & Lakes

Listed below are examples of research projects available online and general information from USGS about rivers, streams, and lakes.

• Assessing Changes in Stream Health Following Watershed Restoration: A 30-Year Perspective, Redwood Creek Basin, Humboldt County, California. Technical Report. Download the File. (8,737 KB, PDF) (WERC)

• Central Platte River and Rainwater Basin Area: Integrated USGS Research (NPWRC)

• Colorado River Basin Riparian Ecology (FORT)

• Erosional Consequence of Tamarisk Removal (Rio Puerco, New Mexico, Southwest) (FORT) (also related to Invasive Species)

• Estimating Water Storage Capacity of Existing and Potentially Restorable Wetland Depression in a Subbasin of the Red River of the North (NPWRC)

• Evaluation of Revegetation Methods for Saltcedar-Dominated Xeric Riparian Areas Along the Rio Grande, New Mexico (FORT) (also related to Arid Lands, Invasive Species)

• Importance and Future Condition of Western Riparian Ecosystems as Migratory Bird Habitat (FORT) (also related to Forests)
  

• Managing Pathways of Biological Production in Large-River Ecosystems (UMESC)

• Restoration of Native Grasses After Control of Perennial Pepperweed (FRESC)

• River Ecology Research at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC)

• River Studies at the Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center (Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Wisconsin) (UMESC)

• Streamflow-Vegetation Relations to Evaluate Flow Regimes (FORT)
  
  
• Theory, Methods and Tools For Determining Environmental Flows For Riparian Vegetation: Riparian Vegetation-Flow Response Guilds (FORT)

	More Research Samples from: Forest and Rangeland Ecosystems Science Center (FRESC) Fort Collins Science Center (FORT) Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center (NPWRC) Northern Rocky Mountain Science Center (NRMSC) Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC) Upper Midwest Environmental Science Center (UMESC) Western Ecological Research Center (WERC)