​Planning and Assessment
Collaborative and Science-Driven Natural Resource Management
RGR conducts collaborative planning and assessment activities to strategically identify natural resource restoration opportunities in priority watersheds. We promote efficient and cost-effective low-tech process-based restoration (LTPBR) prescriptions to pinpoint critical needs. Our team has led or contributed to various assessments and planning initiatives, including Watershed Restoration Action Plans, Wetland Action Plans, and Land Use Plans. Additional efforts include research on Zuni Bowl and One Rock Dam erosion control structures, as well as a policy study on Nature-Based Solutions.
Planning initiatives share several common objectives: documenting and assessing ecological conditions, identifying and prioritizing restoration strategies and developing comprehensive implementation plans. Other projects focus on analyzing ecological challenges and recommending effective policy solutions.
Beaver habitat along Rito de Los Indios in Valles Caldera National Preserve. The willows were planted in 2012.
Planning and Assessment Projects
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...
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)...
Rio de las Vacas Watershed 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...
Ciudad Soil and Water Conservation District Land Use Plan
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...
Zuni Bowl and One Rock Dam Research Project
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...
Nature-Based Solutions Foundational Analysis
RGR is conducting a foundational analysis of New Mexico state policies regarding natural infrastructure and floodplain reconnection projects.
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