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Assessing the ecological integrity of the Colorado River Basin
Jun 16, 2021
(Last modified Apr 7, 2023)
Created by
Patrick Freeman
About
The data layers available in this repository are those that were used to develop the Colorado River Integrity Assessment. The Colorado River Integrity Assessment provides a peer-reviewed interactive tool that maps a suite of anthropogenic factors that currently impact the freshwater ecological integrity of the Colorado River Basin. This assessment was created by Conservation Science Partners with funding from the Walton Family Foundation to empower conservation organizations, practitioners and scientists to consider potential management actions and priorities to protect and restore the health of the Colorado River and its tributaries so that nature and people can both thrive together.
Spatial data in this repository are provided at the HUC8 and HUC12 spatial scales. Segment-level spatial datasets can be requested by emailing CORiverHealth@csp-inc.org.
Key findings of the Colorado River Integrity Assessment
In bringing together a wide variety of data sources to quantify multiple dimensions of ecological integrity in the Colorado River Basin, we found:
- human-related activities pose myriad threats to water;
- marked variability in spatial patterns in the magnitude of human-related threats across river segments and watersheds;
- human-related threats are manifested at the valley bottom (areas adjacent to streams and rivers), upstream contributing catchment, and upstream river network scales;
- clear opportunities for targeted conservation actions in watersheds based on the intersection of human-related threats and other contextual factors.
In bringing together a wide variety of data sources to quantify multiple dimensions of ecological integrity in the Colorado River Basin, we found:
- human-related activities pose myriad threats to water;
- marked variability in spatial patterns in the magnitude of human-related threats across river segments and watersheds;
- human-related threats are manifested at the valley bottom (areas adjacent to streams and rivers), upstream contributing catchment, and upstream river network scales;
- clear opportunities for targeted conservation actions in watersheds based on the intersection of human-related threats and other contextual factors.
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