Pacific Crest Well Pipeline Revegetation Project 2017 Annual Report
Heisler S, Wyler CS, Chizinski T, Hooke J, Frederic MC. 2018. Pacific Crest Well Pipeline Revegetation Project 2017 Annual Report. National Park Service
In 2017, Crater Lake National Park converted an existing exploratory groundwater well into a supplemental potable water source, the Pacific Crest Well. Development of pumping infrastructure and a transport pipeline created an approximately 2.3 acre area of bare-ground disturbance alongside a popular Park entrance road and regional transportation corridor. The Crater Lake National Park Botany Program received funding to carry out vegetative restoration of this impacted area, with a project length of three years. In the first year of the project, restoration efforts consisted of site assessment, monitoring, and mapping; native seed collection, cleaning and storage; plant salvaging from the construction area, and care for these plants; and Invasive Vegetation Management. Results of these efforts consisted of salvaging 144 containers of plants, collection and storage of 2,426 grams of native seed, Invasive Vegetation Management surveys which investigated 39 historic noxious weed population sites and documented and treated 29 current population sites; and creation of a framework to guide efforts in the final two years of the project. Due to delays in the construction schedule that precluded project completion, no planting, seeding, or transplanting was accomplished this season.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Heisler, Scott; Wyler, Carolyn; Chizinski, Tara; Hooke, Jen; Frederic, Melody
- Date of Issue
- 2018-04
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CRLA
- Keywords
- disturbance, native plant communities, outplanting, restoration, revegetation, road construction, seed collection, site preparation, Vegetation
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Vegetation Complex , Ecological Framework: Human Use | Point-Source Human Effects | Point-Source Human Effects