Ecesis - River Partners
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Ecesis - River Partners
Ecesis ecesis \I-’se-sus, i-’ke-sus\ noun [from Greek oikesis meaning inhabitation]: the establishment of an animal or plant in a new habitat. The Quarterly Newsletter of the California Society for Ecological Restoration Summer Solstice Volume 18, Issue 2 In this issue: Considerations in Riparian Restoration 1... Designing Riparian Restoration for Wildlife in the Central Valley 5... Life on the Floodplain 9... Ten Years at Beehive Bend Plus… 2... SERCAL Contacts 10-11... Membership This field was once planted as row crops. Agricultural techniques have been employed on a large scale to restore it back to native riparian habitat. Here, native grasses are being drill-seeded in to establish an herbaceous understory. With good site conditions and proper maintenance, horticultural success can be achieved in a short period of time. Ecesis is published quarterly by the California Society for Ecological Restoration, a nonprofit corporation, as a service to its members. Newsletter contributions of all types are welcome and may be submitted to any of the regional directors (see p. 2). Articles should be sent as a word processing document; and accompanying images sent as jpg or tif files. Native riparian habitat patches with a dense understory like this will be connected through habitat restoration along the Stanislaus River on the San Joaquin NWR. (see page 5). ABOVE Considerations for Designing Riparian Restoration for Wildlife in California’s Central Valley By Dan Efseaff, Stacy Small and Nick Pacini I. Introduction California riparian areas host some of the highest animal biodiversity in the state. While the number of plant species that line lowland rivers may be relatively few, the vegetative patterns are complex. Trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous plants combine to make a unique and extraordinary vegetative structure found nowhere else. In addition, physical characteristics such as flood events, heterogeneous soils, abundant water, multi-level terraces and other factors produce a complex mosaic across the landscape, with dense forest abutting open grasslands. In short, many wildlife populations depend on healthy riparian corridors. By the 1980s, only a small percentage of historic riparian forests remained in the Central Valley. Conversion of forest to agricultural lands, urban development, water diversions, dams, and other human influences have all conspired to remove forests and degrade the remaining habitat (Katibah 1984). Not surprisingly, the loss of forest has precipitated the decline in a host of riparian-dependent wildlife. A variety of creatures from Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) to Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus occidentalis) to the valley elderberry longhorn beetle (Desmocerus continued next page SERCAL Board of Directors Karen Verpeet H.T. Harvey & Associates [email protected] PRESIDENT PRESIDENT-ELECT Pending Mark Tucker Tucker & Associates [email protected] PAST PRESIDENT Paul Kielhold LSA Associates, Inc.-Riverside [email protected] SECRETARY Bo Glover Environmental Nature Center [email protected] TREASURER Directors 1 Mark Stemen California State University-Chico [email protected] — NORTHERN INTERIOR (Lassen, Modoc, REGION Shasta, Siskiyou, Trinity) 2 Harry Oakes Jones & Stokes-Sacramento [email protected] — SACRAMENTO VALLEY (Butte, Colusa, Considerations for Designing Riparian Restoration for Wildlife in California’s Central Valley continued californicus dimorphus), depend on riparian zones for food, shelter, and cover in sometimes complex ways that are still being investigated. In response to these imperiled wildlife populations, agencies and organizations initiated efforts to acquire and protect existing riparian habitat along the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers. Yet looking across the fragmented slivers of remaining habitat, conservationists recognized that stable wildlife populations would require far more effort than the preservation of existing habitat. They soon realized that recovery of wildlife populations needed to be considered as success criteria for riparian restoration. In this article we will discuss our experience in the Central Valley with riparian habitat restoration along the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers REGION Glenn, Lake, Sacramento, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo, Yuba) REGION 3 Regine Miller [email protected] — BAY AREA (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Sonoma) 4 Carl Jensen Wildlands, Inc. [email protected] — SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY (Amador, Calaveras, Fresno, Kern, Kings, REGION Mariposa, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Tulare, Tuolumne) 5 Mark Tucker Tucker & Associates [email protected] — SOUTH COAST (Los Angeles, REGION Orange, San Diego, Ventura) 6 Matt James Coastal Restoration Consultants [email protected] — REGION CENTRAL COAST (Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz) REGION 7 Nick Pacini [email protected] (Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino) — NORTH COAST 8 Michael Hogan Integrated Environmental Restoration Services, Inc. [email protected] — SIERRA (Alpine, El Dorado, Inyo, Mono, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, REGION Sierra) 9 Paul Kielhold LSA Associates, Inc.-Riverside [email protected] — SOUTHERN INTERIOR REGION (Imperial, Riverside, San Bernardino) Guild Chairs Vince Cicero California Department of Parks & Recreation [email protected] COASTAL HABITAT Karen Verpeet H.T. Harvey & Associates [email protected] EDUCATION Margot Griswold EARTHWORKS Restoration, Inc. [email protected] UPLAND HABITAT & RIPARIAN Max Busnardo H.T. Harvey & Associates [email protected] WETLAND ____________________ Susan Clark [email protected] 2701 20th St., Bakersfield 93301 tel. 661.634.9228 fax 661.634.9540 NEWSLETTER EDITOR Julie St. John [email protected] WEBMASTER Steve Newton-Reed [email protected] ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR 2 Why do we need to actively restore these areas? On the Sacramento River, after the completion of Shasta Dam, the threat of damaging floods initially appeared to be greatly diminished, and floodplains were cleared for agriculture. Soils along the Sacramento River and other major rivers of California are some of the richest in the state. Abundant soil moisture, good drainage, and favorable weather make them extremely attractive to farmers, and while these areas may be productive, they are always at risk of flooding. Flood events may have been somewhat tamed but many areas close to the river still flood, with serious consequences for agriculture. Floods bring in sand, sediment, and pathogens, and drown out crops. With changes in the farm economy and crop patterns, farming on these flood-prone parcels became extremely costly and were often abandoned. Initial efforts to protect riparian habitat focused on preserving the largest blocks of existing habitat available from willing sellers. Many of these sites included former agricultural fields, no longer economical to farm due to flooding. The flooding and proximity to existing riparian habitat encouraged many resource managers to initially believe that riparian plants would reclaim these fallow fields. In low-lying areas that experience frequent flooding this can be the case, but our experience with areas cleared for agriculture is that they are good candidate sites for active restoration. Areas that are close to the river and exposed fully to river processes may be synchronized with riparian plant life cycles and need little intervention (except for occasional weed control). These former ag fields are still exposed to the impressive forces of the river that shape plant communities, but a little distance or relative elevation is enough to mute these forces. Furthermore, dams and diversions have altered river hydrographs, diminishing the ability of some native riparian plants to become established. Weed competition often precludes widespread native plant recruitment. Therefore, these fallow fields can remain without significant native riparian plants for decades. Dams and floodplain barriers have altered the patterns of flood timing, frequency, duration, and magnitude that native plant species have evolved with, preventing succession on these fallow fields. For example, flood-dependent plants such as Fremont cottonwood require bare soil (typically either scoured or deposited from a flood event), minimal competition, and slowly receding floodwaters so thirsty cottonwood roots can tap into deeper soil moisture before the onslaught of another hot, dry Central Valley summer arrives. Because river hydrographs are now so altered from historic patterns to which plant populations have adapted, native plant recruitment on fallow ag fields can Ecesis Summer 2008 Volume 18, Issue 2 be minimal, despite seemingly ideal conditions like the cessation of agricultural practices, frequent flood events, and availability of nearby seed sources. As adverse hydrologic conditions persist, non-native plants (such as black mustard, Johnson grass, perennial pepperweed, and yellow star-thistle) are likely to colonize and dominate for decades. Over time, native plants (mainly coyote brush, elderberry, and occasionally native grasses) may recruit on site, but their recruitment rate is likely to remain slow. Perhaps worse, invasive woody species such as tamarisk, arundo, and tree of heaven may also colonize the site. At high numbers, these species provide extremely poor wildlife habitat and diminish floodwater conveyance. On the US Army Corps of Engineers’ McHenry Recreation Area, along the Stanislaus River, Over the years, as resource managers River Partners designed and implemented a restoration project that formed a complex struggled with efforts to reduce the habitat structure after only three growing seasons. This site was a fallow field of weeds burden of maintenance on these fallow four years ago; it now hosts dense native vegetation used by breeding and wintering field properties and provide high quality songbirds including Song Sparrows, Common Yellowthroats, and Black-headed Grosbeaks. habitat, a new paradigm arose — the use of agricultural techniques to plant and establish native plants and Clearly the first priority is to develop planting designs that match set in motion a new successional trajectory that favored native site-specific conditions (soils, hydrology, existing vegetation, etc.), riparian plants and provided wildlife habitat within a short period and reference sites are certainly useful in this process. However, of time. an equally important concern is that restoration projects benefit wildlife. Therefore, restoration designs must consider historic How do we restore riparian habitats? natural communities, but also take a pragmatic approach to Large scale (over 50 acres) riparian restoration was pioneered on consider current conditions and habitat requirements of wildlife the Sacramento River in the early 1990s. This approach blends species the projects are intended to benefit. local agricultural practices with ecological theory in a costeffective manner. Since then this model has also been applied to Wildlife habitat restoration requires a deep understanding of the San Joaquin and other rivers. wildlife species’ life histories. Identifying appropriate wildlife “target” species and restoration sites requires an understanding of With just a fraction of the original riparian forest left, large-scale the species’ range (current and historic), annual cycle, habitat restoration has become a very attractive option to fill in the gaps requirements (sometimes at multiple spatial scales), competitors between fragmented forests, increase the connectivity of wildlife and predators. Working with wildlife ecologists and consulting habitat corridors, provide breeding and foraging sites, and published natural history accounts, species recovery plans, and essentially provide a life support system for riparian wildlife peer-reviewed scientific literature is all part of the process of populations until more sufficient areas are protected and river developing an effective habitat restoration plan. management is more in sync with riparian life cycles. In light of human population encroachment, the areas set aside for habitat In order to represent a wide cross-section of habitat needs, River will become increasingly important, and it is critical that the Partners selects a suite of focal species (or “target” species) that restoration on a site maximizes the investment. the restoration project is intended to benefit over time. Although other species are likely to benefit as well, this approach allows us The initial projects implemented with this approach served as to design projects with specific habitat features in mind. For demonstration projects to test the feasibility of utilizing example, Least Bell’s Vireo (Vireo bellii pusillus) nests in shrubby agricultural practices to establish native riparian plants. As these early successional riparian habitat, often near water. The riparian techniques have become increasingly sophisticated, the scale has brush rabbit inhabits dense thickets of riparian shrubs on increased to projects that exceed 800 acres at a time, and the floodplains. Juvenile Chinook salmon benefit from woody debris approach now includes more refined objectives for wildlife and and shaded habitat provided by trees and shrubs growing over the other societal benefits, such as flood management and recreation. water. Habitat requirements for multiple species can often be continued next page Volume 18, Issue 2 Summer 2008 Ecesis 3 Considerations for Designing Riparian Restoration for Wildlife in California’s Central Valley continued accommodated in an ecological restoration plan that considers habitat structure in addition to plant survival. As new research and monitoring information accumulates, we strive to perfect these designs and incorporate new features that lend themselves to becoming testable hypotheses. Our success criteria have shifted from a primary emphasis on plant survival to include wildlife use. For example, a nesting pair of Least Bell’s Vireos successfully fledged young using one of our restoration projects at the San Joaquin National Wildlife Refuge. This The true measure of success of wildlife-targeted restoration is not only plant survival, but event signified the return of this oncewildlife use as well. These Least Bell’s Vireo chicks hatched on a restoration site on the San common species to the Central Valley, Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. This species had been absent for sixty years from after a long 60 years’ absence. Although the Central Valley prior to this nesting event. they certainly may be related, the detection of this species nesting on a restoration site may be a adaptive feedback from land managers and wildlife specialists has better indicator of success than high overall plant survivorship. led to restoration designs that focus less on tall trees alone and Our designs typically contain far more plant species diversity than the surrounding agricultural landscape, and we spend considerable effort to determine the structural components of the planting. For example, to benefit Least Bell’s Vireo that nest in low growing shrub cover, we may group roses and blackberries together in an area planted with mugwort. To benefit Yellow-billed Cuckoos, we may create a large stand of cottonwoods with light gaps and a heavy shrub component. River Partners often uses a “two forest” design. That is we plan for multiple successional trajectories to create quality habitat over long periods of time. Fast growing, early successional species such as cottonwood and willows are planted to provide rapid vegetative structure and habitat (5-20 years). Included in the design are slower growing species such as valley oak. Over the long term, the slower growing oaks will grow through the canopy and become the dominant species (>25 years). In the meantime, multiple generations of birds can benefit from this structural development (please see the article on Beehive Bend, page 9). With this approach, a transient successional series may dominate until another plant community matures. In other cases, we may create designs in which a riparian shrub community dominates a site over time for the benefit of shrubdependent species, such as the riparian brush rabbit (see “Life on the Floodplain” article, next page). Wildlife monitoring and 4 Ecesis Summer 2008 Volume 18, Issue 2 more on under- and mid-story species. Native grasses and forbs add to the food base and cover and effectively out-compete weeds. For example, dense cover of mugwort can make a site more resistant to weed invasions and provide important habitat for birds, such as the Song Sparrow (Melospiza melodia), Common Yellowthroat (Geothlypis trichas) or Lazuli Bunting (Passerina amoena). Conclusions Since its genesis over 15 years ago, the goals of riparian restoration in California’s Central Valley have shifted from simple horticultural success and plant survival to include wildlife benefits, as well. Although this pragmatic approach of maximizing habitat features for a suite of targeted wildlife species may not exactly replicate the original habitat found on a particular site, success is measured by whether wildlife populations thrive on the restoration site and whether the restoration efforts will have a lasting legacy to preserve imperiled wildlife. Katibah, E. F. 1984. A brief history of riparian forests in the central valley of California. Pages 23-36 in R. E. Warner and K. M. Hendrix, editors. California Riparian Systems. University of California Press, Berkeley. A radio-collared riparian brush rabbit is ready to be released into the wild on the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge by the Endangered Species Recovery Program. Life on the Floodplain: Habitat Restoration for the riparian brush rabbit and other riparian-associated wildlife in the northern San Joaquin Valley Stacy L. Small, River Partners The world of the riparian brush rabbit (Sylvilagus bachmani riparius) is a tangled mess, depending on whose eyes you see it through. This species inhabits thickets of California rose (Rosa californica), California blackberry (Rubinus ursinus), and sandbar willow (Salix exigua) that are typical of historic streamside vegetation of the Central Valley but are now so rare throughout this species’ historic range. Like other brush rabbit sub-species distributed throughout shrubby plant communities of California, such as chaparral and coastal scrub, the riparian brush rabbit prefers low, woody shrub cover and creates a maze of tunnels for travel through river bottom vegetation. It lives out its entire life cycle without venturing far out into the open, and its compact body is adapted to maneuver with great agility through dense riparian thickets and, in this way, dodge coming prey. However, the dense riparian cover favored by riparian brush rabbits was just the “brush” least favored by landowners and levee managers over the past century and was therefore targeted for clearing throughout the San Joaquin Valley. Now one of the most endangered mammals in California, this creature is hardly ever seen in the wild, both because of its shy, skittish nature and its rarity. Life on the floodplain has another set of hazards for a shrubdwelling rabbit with limited swimming abilities. Frequent flooding requires the riparian brush rabbit to seek high ground, preferably a place with vegetative cover where it can wait out a flood event without starving or being preyed upon by hawks circling above. Such vegetated high ground is in short supply in this rabbit’s historic San Joaquin Valley range. The natural topography of riparian floodplains has been subject to leveling in the process of agricultural conversion, which compounds the effects of land clearing for this species. To counteract historic land use impacts on this and other riparian-associated species, River Partners has been collaborating with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the Endangered Species Recovery Program (ESRP) at CSU Stanislaus to design and implement habitat restoration projects for the benefit of reintroduced riparian brush rabbit populations on the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. The primary recovery goal for the riparian brush rabbit is to establish three new self-sustaining sub-populations that can survival stochastic events. To attain this goal, extensive habitat restoration, in conjunction with ESRP’s captive breeding and reintroduction program, is required. Following recommendations from ESRP and USFWS, we have taken a three-part approach to this restoration: 1) planting continued next page Volume 18, Issue 2 Summer 2008 Ecesis 5 Life on the Floodplain continued shrubby riparian habitat near rabbit reintroduction areas; 2) re-vegetating natural high ground and Refuge levees as flood escape corridors; and 3) constructing new high-ground flood refugia on Refuge floodplains to restore topography to formerly leveled fields. In the process, we seek to provide multispecies benefits through our planting and flood refugia designs. To date, we have planted over 1,000 acres of riparian habitat on the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge (10 miles west of Modesto) and vegetated 20,000 linear feet of levees with native shrubs, with financial support from USFWS, California Department of Water Resources, CalFed, Bureau of Reclamation, Wildlife Conservation Board, and the Resources A “rabbit’s-eye” view of riparian shrub habitat. Recent restoration designs have been based Agency. Lately, we have focused on on reference habitat like this on the San Joaquin River NWR. restoring natural high ground and constructing earthen mounds and berms that are planted with (Melospiza melodia) and several species of wintering sparrows, native shrub cover for flood refugia sites. Our planting Wrentit (Chamaea fasciata), California Quail (Callipepla composition for the brush rabbit is high in shrub species, californica), and the endangered San Joaquin “riparian” woodrat including California rose, California blackberry, coyote brush (Neotoma fuscipes riparia). Wrentits, Spotted Towhees and Song (Baccharis pilularis) and sandbar willow, with some blue Sparrows nest in dense shrub cover. Riparian woodrats inhabit elderberry (Sambucus mexicana) and valley oaks (Quercus lobata) areas with willows beneath valley oaks. We also expect included. Neotropical migrant songbirds, such as Yellow Warblers Wildlife species that typically co-occur in riparian brush rabbit (Dendroica petechia) and Black-headed Grosbeaks (Pheucticus habitat include Spotted Towhee (Pipilo maculatus), Song Sparrow melanocephalus), to nest and forage in the willow patches incorporated into our most recent designs. Mexican elderberry provides an important food source for foraging birds and is the host plant for the endangered valley elderberry Many thanks to our 2007 Conference Sponsors… longhorn beetle (Desmocerus californicus dimorphus). We anticipate benefits for salmonid populations, as well. Creating high-ground flood refugia for terrestrial wildlife will enable the Refuge to eventually be restored to functional floodplain habitat for juvenile salmonid rearing. Also, by planting riparian vegetation near eroding river banks, we will slow erosion, strengthen river banks, and provide shade, shelter, and a food supply for aquatic organisms. The riparian brush rabbit’s life history is intricately linked to floodplains, riparian habitat, and river processes, and its recovery will depend upon the restoration of vigorous, native riparian corridors. Effective restoration for this species is likely to result in a thriving, diverse riparian wildlife community for the northern San Joaquin Valley. 6 Ecesis Summer 2008 Volume 18, Issue 2 Many thanks to our 2007 Conference Sponsors… Volume 18, Issue 2 Summer 2008 Ecesis 7 Many thanks to our 2007 Conference Premier Sponsor… Many thanks to our 2007 Conference Sponsors… 8 Ecesis Summer 2008 Volume 18, Issue 2 Ten Years at Beehive Bend Michael Rogner and Dan Efseaff, River Partners In 1991, the California Department of Fish & Game (DFG) acquired a 269-acre parcel in rural Glenn County. The site was named the Beehive Bend Unit after the name of a sweeping curve along the Sacramento River. A new channel was blasted in the early 1900s to shorten the distance river boats needed to take, leaving the remnant channel as an oxbow lake. Lining the old channel was classic Sacramento River riparian forest — a towering canopy of valley oak, Fremont cottonwood, Gooding’s willow and western sycamore, all draped in a veil of wild grape. Oregon ash and box elder, festooned with Dutchman’s pipevine and poison oak, dominated the mid-story. The understory, like most places on the river, was a mix of native and non-native species. However, in the midst of this lush habitat was approximately 60 acres that had been farmed for at least 40 years. When farming ceased, this area lay fallow for a decade and vegetation quickly colonized the rich soils, though few of the plants were native. Instead, a tangle of yellow star thistle, Johnson grass, and black mustard dominated the site, providing poor habitat and little opportunity for forest regeneration. In 1999, DFG contracted with River Partners to restore the Beehive Bend Unit. This project came during a critical period in the evolution of restoration design, and was one of the first to incorporate a sophisticated plant design based on a mosaic of vegetative structure designed specifically to maximize the niches exploitable by native birds. To help evaluate the restoration, River Partners worked with PRBO Conservation Science to monitor breeding songbirds in both the remnant riparian and restoration area, and the project design was developed in part with PRBO recommendations. What began as a three-year study has now extended into ten years of monitoring through subsequent funding efforts. Longer term views are critical to understanding the efficacy of restoration, as Dr. Nat Seavy of PRBO points out, because “some species do not use restored sites until about 10 years after restoration. Monitoring beyond the typical three-year period is critical for understanding whether or not restoration has been successful in creating bird habitat.” Riparian habitats are dynamic, yet predictable patterns occur and wildlife responds accordingly. Early-successional habitat includes such pioneering plant species as willows and blackberry that colonize new sandbars after flood events, and this vegetative structure is mimicked by young restoration. Some of the first avian species to respond to this habitat include Black-headed Grosbeak, Lesser Goldfinch and Spotted Sandpiper. Because early-successional habitat is in short supply, these birds flock to restoration sites, and have been documented abandoning long held territories in old riparian in favor of restorations as young as two years old. Dams, diversions, and levees have greatly altered floods and seasonal flows, and as a result, early-successional habitat is now rarely created by the Sacramento River. Most of the remnant habitat along the river is comparable to the existing riparian at Beehive Bend, or is in agricultural production. While this can provide important habitat for some birds, many sensitive bird species need a different type of forest, the lush quick growth of shrubby willows, California blackberry and other rapidly growing native plants. In the absence of more dynamic rivers, restoration plantings provide important habitat. The trick is how to best manage these areas for them long term, and this question can only be answered with long-term monitoring on existing projects so that we can accurately evaluate their impacts. So how has Beehive Bend performed over its first decade? Trends from the 1999-2007 point-count data suggest some interesting results. In the existing riparian forest, avian species richness has averaged 9.8 (species per point, over two visits per breeding season) for the duration of the study, while richness within the restoration hovered around 3.5 over the first four years, and then jumped to 7.5 in year five and 8.3 in year six. After a one-year break due to lack of funding, the study resumed in 2006 (current funding will take us through the 2008 field season) and PRBO found that the restored forest now harbored a bird community that was nearly as species rich as the existing riparian (richness = 9.0 in the restoration, 9.22 in the existing riparian over the next two years). Looking at Beehive in the context of a larger study, twenty bird species were examined over a similar time period across a hundred-mile segment of the lower Sacramento River and twelve were found to be increasing, while only one was decreasing. While this is great news in an era when so many studies are documenting negative trends, we must continue to work closely with our partners to further refine and improve our restoration designs, working toward a common goal of ensuring the long term vitality of California’s wildlife. Volume 18, Issue 2 Summer 2008 Ecesis 9 Many, Many Thanks to our Members… Sustaining Individual $100 Contributing Business $250 Bo Glover Environmental Nature Center Newport Beach Jon Shilling Shilling Seed Auburn Business $500 Pacific Restoration Group, Inc. Corona EcoSystems Restoration Associates San Diego/Lincoln Integrated Environmental Restoration Services, Inc. Tahoe City Coastal Restoration Consultants, Inc. Santa Barbara Kamman Hydrology & Engineering San Rafael Dudek Engineering & Environment Encinitas Native Grow Nursery San Juan Capistrano E. Read and Associates, Inc. Orange Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy RECON Environmental, Inc. 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