Riparian monitoring of wadeable streams, East Fork Virgin River, Zion National Park: summary report, 2008–2012
Witwicki D and Weissinger R. 2015. Riparian monitoring of wadeable streams, East Fork Virgin River, Zion National Park: summary report, 2008–2012. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NCPN/NRR—2015/1021. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The goal of Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) riparian monitoring of wadeable streams is to provide park managers with status and trend information about integrated attributes of hydrology, vegetation, and geomorphology on those streams. This information is intended to provide early warning of resource degradation and determine natural variability of wadeable streams. This report summarizes network monitoring of the East Fork Virgin River in Zion National Park from 2008 to 2012. It outlines goals and objectives of the network’s wadeable streams, methods of the associated protocol, and an overview of the sampling design. This report also presents baseline data on three monitored reaches and examines changes in geomorphology and vegetation resulting from a December 2010 flood event. This flood, which peaked at 3,090 cubic feet per second, was the second-largest flood recorded from 1992 to 2013, and is estimated to be a 25–40 year flood event.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Witwicki, Dana; Weissinger, Rebecca
- Date of Issue
- 2015-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NCPN , NRSS , ZION
- Keywords
- Geomorphology, Hydrology, Monitoring, NCPN Wadeable Streams Monitoring, Plant Studies, Riparian, Vegetation, wadeable streams