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Lindsay Reynolds
February 3, 2020
Riparian Ecologist, National Operations Center
Bureau of Land Management, [email protected]
Floodplain response
14 years after invasive removal in
Canyon de Chelly National Monument, AZ
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From Cadol, 2006
Canyon de Chelly, Arizona
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Historic canyon land use
•Farming
•Fruit and grains
•Grazing
•Residence
•Navajo and Hopi ceremonial sites
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1942 Ansel Adams
Floodplain changes
1930s-2005
2005
*Native cottonwood, exotic tamarisk
and Russian olive riparian forest
Pre-1940s
1975-1985
2005
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Tamarisk and Russian olive
Tamarix ramosissima Ledebour,
T. chinensis Loureiro,
T. pentandra Karst,
and hybrids of these taxa
Elaeagnus angustifolia L.
(Russian olive)
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Canyon de Chelly restoration
• National Park Service
interest
• Watershed restoration
• Viewshed restoration
• Navajo interest
• Historic farming practices
• Viewshed restoration
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Goals
1. History of invasion
2. Response to removal
– Channel
– Floodplain plant communities
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• Extract plants 2005-2006
• Slice, find germination points, and age plants
• Tree ring aging
• Climate reconstruction
History of Invasion
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History of Invasion
Reynolds, L.V., Cooper, D.J. and Hobbs, N.T. (2014), Driver of riparian tree invasion on a
desert stream. River Research and Applications, 30: 60-70. doi:10.1002/rra.2619
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History of Invasion
• 1980s: Wide-spread invasion (late! – compared to region)
• Invasion occurred on an active floodplain that then was abandoned.
• Establishment driven by wet years and interacted with channel change
• Establishment facilitated channel change (incision)
~OR~
• Channel change (incision) facilitated seedling survival
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History of Invasion
Cadol, D., Rathburn, S.L. and Cooper, D.J. (2011), Aerial photographic
analysis of channel narrowing and vegetation expansion in Canyon De
Chelly National Monument, Arizona, USA, 1935–2004. River Research
and Applications, 27: 841-856. doi:10.1002/rra.1399
Reynolds, L.V., Cooper, D.J. and Hobbs, N.T. (2014), Driver of riparian
tree invasion on a desert stream. River Research and Applications, 30:
60-70. doi:10.1002/rra.2619
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2005
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Study Sites
Exotic plant removal sites:
1. Navajo Fortress
2. Standing Cow
3. Lower White House
4. Upper White House
5. Sliding Rock
6. Spider Rock
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435
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1. Control
2. Above-ground removal
w/ herbicide
3. Whole plant removal
Removal Sites
300 meters
1.
2.
3.
Flow
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Removals 2005-2006
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Response to invasive plant removal
2005-2019
1) How has the stream channel
responded?
2) How do removal methods affect
resulting plant communities?
(3 yrs and 14 yrs post treatment)
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Channel form pre-post removal 2007
Jaeger, K. L., and E.E. Wohl. 2011. Channel response in a semiarid stream to removal of tamarisk
and Russian olive, Water Resources Research, 47 (2). W02536, doi: 10.1029/2009WR008741
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Channel form 2005-2019
UpstreamDownstream
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Control
Whole plant removal
Sliding Rock Site (clay)
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2019 - Lower White House Whole Plant Removal
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Vegetation surveys:
• Summer 2005, 06, 07, 08 and 2019
Response to invasive plant removal
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2008
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2019 Upper White House site
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Grazing is ongoing
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Grazing exclosures, seed additions (2012)
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(Ansel Adams, 1942)
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(D. Cooper, 6.1.05)
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(L. Reynolds, 9.27.06)
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June 2015
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July 2019
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July 2019
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1942
Ansel Adams2005 2015
• Tamarisk and Russian olive invasion was driven by:
• wet years, large floods -1980s
• channel narrowing, channel incision – which caused which?
• After invasive plant removal:
• Cohesive banks with clay and prior entrenchment facilitate further
channel enlargement (including incision) and does not promote lateral
movement: persistent entrenchment
Summary
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1942
Ansel Adams2005 2015
• Where bank sediments are dominated by sand, widening and channel
migration is happening, with sufficient flow
• Vegetation in removal sites is dominated by exotic grasses and forbs,
return of native plant communities is limited.
• Seeding and grazing exclosure are facilitating native grass persistence
Summary
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AcknowledgementsCoauthors:
Kristin Jaeger, United States Geological Survey
Keith Lyons, National Park Service, Canyon de Chelly National Monument
David Cooper, Ellen Wohl, Celeste Weiting, Julianne Scamardo, and Sara
Rathburn, Colorado State University
Funding: National Park Service Intermountain Region, Program for
Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology and Statistics, Center for Invasive Plant
Management
NPS staff: Joel Wagner, Scott Travis, Elaine Leslie, Keith Lyons, Jennifer Lavris,
Ernest Yuth, David Wagner, Tess Johnstone, Marilyn James, & Canyon de Chelly
Staff
The Navajo residents of Canyon de Chelly
Dan Cadol, New Mexico Tech Univ.
Field and technical assistance: Laurie Gilligan, Renee Petipas, Frankie Coburn,
Emily Nash, Nathan Cooper, Dan Cadol, Adam Birken, Josh Rose, Juan
Eguigiren, Joanna Lemly, Keenan Reed & Barry Tanaka
Dine College interns: Tara and Farah Deschine, Jesse Mike and Jeremiah Barbar