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Low-Tech Riparian And Wet Meadow Restoration Increases Vegetation Productivity And Resilience Across Semiarid Rangelands, Nicholas L. Silverman, Brady W. Allred, John Patrick Donnelly, Teresa B. Chapman, Jeremy D. Maestas, Joseph Michael Wheaton, Jeff White, David E. Naugle

Watershed Sciences Faculty Publications

Restoration of riparian and wet meadow ecosystems in semiarid rangelands of the western United States is a high priority given their ecological and hydrological importance in the region. However, traditional restoration approaches are often intensive and costly, limiting the extent over which they can be applied. Practitioners are increasingly trying new restoration techniques that are more cost‐effective, less intensive, and can more practically scale up to the scope of degradation. Unfortunately, practitioners typically lack resources to undertake outcome‐based evaluations necessary to judge the efficacy of these techniques. In this study, we use freely available, satellite remote sensing to explore changes …