Planning and Assessment Archives

Watershed Restoration Action Plans (WRAPs)

Planning and Assessment, Watershed Restoration Action Plans (WRAPs)

Pooled water upstream of a real beaver dam along Rio de Vacas in the Jemez Mountains inside an exclosure fence. The fence was constructed and willows were planted in approximately 2012. RGR developed WRAPs for three subwatersheds in the Upper Rio Guadalupe Watershed...

Wetland Action Plans (WAPs)

Planning and Assessment, Wetland Action Plans (WAPs)

View overlooking San Antonio Oxbow Wetland, which is included in the City of Albuquerque Open Space Division Wetlands Action Plan. A Wetland Action Plan (WAP) is a guide for the planning and implementation of projects essential to the understanding, conservation,...

Rio de las Vacas Watershed Assessment

Planning and Assessment

Staff conducting stream and floodplain assessment along Rio de Las Vacas. RGR completed field and remote data collection required for an assessment of current riparian conditions and restoration needs on the Rio de Las Vacas watershed upstream of the Rancho de...

Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District Land Use Plan

Planning and Assessment

RGR is working with Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District board and staff members to write a Land Use Plan that contains policies for natural resource management within the District. It adheres to the legislative purpose of the Soil and Water Conservation...

Zuni Bowl and One Rock Dam Research Project

Planning and Assessment

Rio Grande Return taught NM Department of Transportation how to build Zuni Bowls and One Rock Dams using to-scale desk top models. The Zuni Bowl and One Rock Check Dam Research Project, commissioned by the New Mexico Department of Transportation (NMDOT), examined the...