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 "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-geographic-science-center/science/cienega-ranch-semi-desert-native-grassland",
 "headline": "Cienega Ranch - Semi-desert Native Grassland Restoration",
 "datePublished": "October 12, 2022",
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     "name": "Laura M Norman, Ph.D.",
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     "text": "USGS Literature Cited"
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     "text": "Semi-desert Native Grassland Restoration"
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     "text": "Photos: Top left: Hanna Coy led the hydrologic experimental design and data collection. Top right: Andy Bennett helped collect measurements throughout the study."
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     "text": "Photos: Left: Plants in Rock Detention Structure refuge. Right: Winter grass moonrise over the range and water bar."
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     "text": "Sources/Usage: Public Domain."
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     "text": "Cienega Ranch"
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     "text": "Learn more about Cienega Ranch:"
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     "text": "Visit the Cienega Ranch website to learn more about Conservation Easements of the \u201cGrasslands Protection Initiative\u201d."
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     "text": "At the Cienega Ranch, near Willcox, Arizona, in the foothills of the Dos Cabeza Mountains, a rancher is  working to restore and conserve high- quality native grasslands and critical wildlife habitat, while keeping the land as a working cattle ranch.  Our objectives were to estimate the hydrological effect of water harvesting on grassland restoration and quantify how grassland conservation efforts impact recharge and water availability at the ranch."
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     "text": "Coy, H. A., Wilson, N. R., Bennett, A. F., Hsieh, D., & Norman, L. M. (2021). Hydrologic Data Collected at Leaky Weirs, Cienega Ranch, Willcox, AZ (March 2019\u2014October 2020). U.S. Geological Survey Data Release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9OX6TT1"
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     "text": "In the meantime, click here to see a \u201ccellphone video tour\u201d of the ranch, weirs and water harvesting last summer: \u201cCienega Ranch Best Management Practices (8/17/22)\u201d."
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     "text": "Our main study area was the historic Cienega Draw, where cemented-rock structures, were fitted into bedrock channels to detain surface water for wetland restoration are referred to as \u2018Leaky Weirs\u2019. We instrumented and monitored three total sites, two with leaky weirs and one downstream from a series of earthen berms. Leaky Weir 1 (LW1), our 1st treatment site, is in the mainstem of Cienega Draw, with a monitoring well downstream and a spring upstream. Our 2nd treatment site (LW5) is in tributary of the Draw, adjacent to LW1, with no known spring. We also monitored a Control site on Cottonwood Draw to the southeast. Instrumentation includes water-level loggers, wildlife cameras, and crest-stage gages with logging temperature sensors.  We developed a \u20183-in-1\u2019 design, which allows us to compute infiltration rates through the collection of complimentary data, including peak stage (via cork lines), stage time series (via referenced external marks paired with camera data), and temperature time series (via ibutton sensors)."
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     "text": "Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS; a.k.a. \u2018drone\u2019) were flown to acquire high-resolution imagery and to create high-resolution digital terrain models (DTM). Cross-sections, perpendicular to flow, were calculated from the digital terrain models at treatment sites and surveyed using an optical/laser level and rod."
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     "@type": "TextObject",
     "text": "By Western Geographic Science Center October 12, 2022"
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     "text": "Coy, H., Norman, L. M., Wilson, N. R., Debenedetto, Geoffrey P., Bennett, A. F., Vogel, J., Swetnam, T., & Austin, J. T. (2019, November 8). Assessing the Water Budget around Wetland Restoration \u201cLeaky Weirs\u201d at the Cienega Ranch, SE Arizona, USA. Society of Ecological Restoration Southwest Conference, Tucson Arizona."
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     "text": "Cienega Ranch - Semi-desert Native Grassland Restoration ACTIVE"
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     "text": "We use hydrologic models to estimate the water budget at and around structures and compare with measurements taken in the field. Findings portray the hydrologic connection between recharge in the Dos Cabezas mountain system and groundwater in basin-fill aquifers, and the source water for the wetlands that comprised the historic Cienega Creek that can be supported by leaky weirs. We identify a large, perched aquifer in the alluvium that is being recharged via diffuse rainfall to support vegetation and grassland health \u2026with a publication forthcoming (stay tuned)!"
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     "text": "At the Cienega Ranch, near Willcox, Arizona, in the foothills of the Dos Cabeza Mountains, a rancher is working to restore and conserve high- quality native grasslands and critical wildlife habitat, while keeping the land as a working cattle ranch.  Our objectives were to estimate the hydrological effect of water harvesting on grassland restoration and quantify how grassland conservation efforts impact recharge and water availability at the ranch."
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