Proceedings of the California riparian systems conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA.

Abstract

The nearly 100 papers in these proceedings are aimed at a diverse audience of resource managers, environmental con-sultants, researchers, landowners, environmental activists, and a variety of user groups. Some of the papers explain how streams interact with the plants and animals at their margins and with the land that they occupy to accomplish a range of important functions, including protecting the banks from erosion, reducing the impacts of flooding, providing wildlife habitat, protecting instream habitat for fishes, producing forage for livestock, and enhancing human lives. Biological diversity in western lands is often directly related to these corridors, which also serve as major routes for migratory birds. Special attention is given to the several threatened and endangered species which need riparian habitats and to the response of riparian systems to such disturbances as fire, logging, landslides and diversion for power or water supply. A concluding section deals with measures being taken to preserve and restore riparian lands, particularly along large rivers and in the cities. Special attention is given in some of these papers to revegetation techniques.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the California riparian systems conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA.

• Introduction
• Influence of Valley Floor Landforms on Stream Ecosystems
• Channel-Dynamic Control on the Establishment of Riparian Trees After Large Floods in Northwestern California
• Alder Establishment and Channel Dynamics in a Tributary of the South Fork Eel River, Mendocino County, California
• The Middle Sacramento River: Human Impacts on Physical and Ecological Processes Along a Meandering River
• Influence of Channel Geomorphology on Retention of Dissolved and Particulate Matter in a Cascade Mountain Stream
• A New Approach to Flood Protection Design and Riparian Management
• Effects of Bank Revetment on Sacramento River, California
• Post-Fire Interactions Between Riparian Vegetation and Channel Morphology and the Implications for Stream Channel Rehabilitation Choices
• Meanderbelt Dynamics of the Sacramento River, California
• Introduction
• Feasibility of Mapping Riparian Habitats Under Natural Conditions in California
• Great Valley Riparian Habitats and the National Registry of Natural Landmarks
• Plant Community Development, Site Quality Analysis and River Dynamics in the Design of Riparian Preserves on the Middle Sacramento River, California
• San Joaquin River Riparian Habitat Below Friant Dam: Preservation and Restoration
• Middle Sacramento River Refuge: A Feasibility Study
• Developing Management Plans for California Riparian Systems
• Introduction
• Rangeland Riparian Systems
• Using Stream Classification to Prioritize Riparian Rehabilitation After Extreme Events
• Ten Years of Change in Sierran Stringer Meadows: An Evaluation of Range Condition Models
• An Application of BLM's Riparian Inventory Procedure to Rangeland Riparian Resources in the Kern and Kaweah River Watersheds
• The Fallacy of Structures and the Fortitude of Vegetation
• Evidence for an Alternative Landscape Potential in California Annual Rangelands
• Use of Supplemental Feeding Locations to Manage Cattle Use on Riparian Areas of Hardwood Rangelands
• Clark Canyon (Mono County) Riparian Demonstration Area
• Southwestern Woody Riparian Vegetation and Succession: An Evolutionary Approach
• Relative Nature of Wetlands: Riparian and Vegetational Considerations
• The Riparianness of a Desert Herpetofauna
• Coyote Creek (San Diego County) Management and Restoration at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park
• Introduction
• Predicting Stream Temperature After Riparian Vegetation Removal
• Coarse woody debris ecology in a second-growth Sequoia sempervirens forest stream
• Pacific Yew: A Facultative Riparian Conifer with an Uncertain Future
• Riparian Systems and Forest Management—Changes in Harvesting Techniques and their Effects on Decomposed Granitic Soils
• Stabilization of Landslides for the Improvement of Aquatic Habitat
• Introduction
• Alluvial Scrub Vegetation in Coastal Southern California
• Recovery of the Chaparral Riparian Zone After Wildfire
• Riparian Restoration and Watershed Management: Some Examples from the California Coast
• Restoring and Maintaining Riparian Habitat on Private Pastureland
• Recovery of Riparian Vegetation on an Intermittent Stream Following Removal of Cattle
• Giant Reed (Arundo donax): A Climax Community of the Riparian Zone
• Techniques for Minimizing and Monitoring the Impact of Pipeline Construction on Coastal Streams
• Introduction
• Stonefly (Plecoptera) Feeding Modes: Variation Along a California River Continuum
• Habitat and Populations of the Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle Along the Sacramento River
• Practical Techniques for Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetle Mitigation
• How Tight is the Linkage Between Trees and Trout?
• Geomorphic and Riparian Influences on the Distribution and Abundance of Salmonids in a Cascade Mountain Stream
• Montane Riparian Habitat and Willow Flycatchers: Threats to a Sensitive Environment and Species
• Population Trends and Management of the Bank Swallow (Riparia riparia) on the Sacramento River, California
• A Proposed Habitat Management Plan for Yellow-Billed Cuckoos in California
• Characteristics of the Least Bell's Vireo Nest Sites Along the Santa Ynez River, Santa Barbara County
• Description of Nesting Habitat for Least Bell's Vireo in San Diego County
• Maintaining Site Integrity for Breeding Least Bell's Vireos
• Use of Non-Riparian Habitats by Least Bell's Vireos
• Introduction
• A Test of the California Wildlife-Habitat Relationship System for Breeding Birds in Valley-Foothill Riparian Habitat
• Avifauna and Riparian Vegetation in Carmel Valley, Monterey County, California
• Wildlife Monitoring of a Riparian Mitigation Site
• Status Changes of Bird Species Using Revegetated Riparian Habitats on the Lower Colorado River from 1977 to 1984
• Bird Use of Natural and Recently Revegetated Cottonwood-Willow Habitats on the Kern River
• The Upper Santa Ynez River as Habitat for a Diverse Riparian Flora and Fauna
• Activities and Ecological Role of Adult Aquatic Insects in the Riparian Zone of Streams
• Introduction
• Hydrology of Bishop Creek, California: An Isotopic Analysis
• Stream-Groundwater Interactions Along Streams of the Eastern Sierra Nevada, California: Implications for Assessing Potential Impacts of Flow Diversions
• Water Relations of Obligate Riparian Plants as a Function of Streamflow Diversion on the Bishop Creek Watershed
• Riparian Plant Water Relations Along the North Fork Kings River, California
• A Riparian Vegetation Ecophysiological Response Model
• Water Relations of White Alder
• Interpreting Physiological Data from Riparian Vegetation: Cautions and Complications
• Riparian Vegetation Base-line Analysis and Monitoring Along Bishop Creek, California
• Riparian Communities of the Sierra Nevada and their Environmental Relationships
• Early Recovery of an Eastern Sierra Nevada Riparian System After 40 Years of Stream Diversion
• The Effect of Water Management and Land Use Practices on the Restoration of Lee Vining and Rush Creeks
• Introduction
• Research as an Integral Part of Revegetation Projects
• Juniper for Streambank Stabilization in Eastern Oregon
• A Low Cost Brush Deflection System for Bank Stabilization and Revegetation
• Reestablishment of Native Riparian Species at an Altered High Elevation Site
• Watershed Restoration in the Northern Sierra Nevada: A Biotechnical Approach
• Revegetation of Riparian Trees and Shrubs on Alluvial Soils Along the Upper Sacramento River, 1987-1988
• Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) Pilot Revegetation Project
• Revegetation Along Coyote Creek (Santa Clara County) at Two Freeway Bridges
• The Crescent Bypass: A Riparian Restoration Project on the Kings River (Fresno County)
• A Restoration Design for Least Bell's Vireo Habitat in San Diego County
• Creating Habitat for the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americana)
• Initial Development of Riparian and Marsh Vegetation on Dredged-material Islands in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, California
• Air-Earth Interface Model for Restoring Riparian Habitats
• Introduction
• The Wildcat-San Pablo Creek Flood Control Project and Its Implications for the Design of Environmentally Sensitive Flood Management Plans
• Riparian and Related Values Associated with Flood Control Project Alternatives at Wildcat and San Pablo Creeks
• Redesign of a Flood Control Project by Citizen Initiative
• Innovations in Stream Restoration and Flood Control Design Meeting Flood Capacity and Environmental Goals on San Luis Obispo Creek
• Public Participation and Natural Habitat Preservation Along Arcade Creek, Del Paso Regional Park, Sacramento, California
• Arroyo Management Plan (Alameda County): A Plan for Implementing Access and Restoring Riparian Habitats
• Introduction
• Conflicts in River Management: A Conservationist's Perspective on Sacramento River Riparian Habitats—Impacts, Threats, Remedies, Opportunities, and Consensus
• Riparian Area Management: Principles, Politics, and Practices
• Integrated Riparian Area Management on the Tule Lake Allotment, Lassen County
• Riparian Protection Rules for Oregon Forests
• Formation of the Arizona Riparian Council: An Example of Lasting Public Interest in Riparian Resources
• Appendix: Riparian Conference Advisory Committee
• Author Index

Citation

Abell, Dana L., tech. coord. 1989. Proceedings of the California riparian systems conference: protection, management, and restoration for the 1990s; 1988 September 22-24; Davis, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-110. Berkeley, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station. 544 p.