Annual Report

BOSQUE ECOSYSTEM MONITORING PROGRAM (BEMP) SITE MONITORING REPORT FOR 2023

URL: https://webapps.usgs.gov/mrgescp/documents/BEMP-2023-Annual-Technical-Report.pdf

Author(s): 04/29/2024

Publication: 2023 Final Report submitted to: US Army Corps of Engineers, USACE Contract #: W912PP18C0023 & US Bureau of Reclamation, Grant NO R21AP10166

Abstract:

The 2023 reporting period covers 33 BEMP sites along 250 miles of the Rio Grande, including 32 sites within the Middle Rio Grande (Figure 1.1 and Table 1.1). Through the stakeholder driven and strategic location of these sites, BEMP studies the ecological drivers and effects of fire, flooding, climate change, and human alteration on the bosque ecosystem. Two-thirds of BEMP sites were installed by BEMP staff at the request of natural resource and water managers to monitor the long-term ecological impacts of restoration projects such as mechanical clearing, wood chipping, bank-lowering, and more recently, post burn recovery. The other third were installed to facilitate research opportunities or at the request of schools or other partners.