Images

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.

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.

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.

Satellite imagery of the project study area, South San Francisco Bay. Imagery is from the Sentinel-2 satellite, acquired October 2022.

Picture of a dam in a dry stream bed in Mexico for the aridland water harvesting study.

Photographs of Natural Infrastructure in Dryland Streams (NIDS), including a. leaky weir, b. sandbag dams, c. wood log jams, and d. gabions

Research lexicon portraying tasks associated with the investigations showing 8 different stages.

An illustration of a mountain with water flowing from the top down to a river with smaller rivers flowing off the sides. Multiple items appear along the various rivers including leaky weirs, one rock dams, log dams, gabions, check dams, trincheras, and earthen berms. Informational bubbles appear alongside these various item in the illustration.

The opening screen for a video about the Re-greening a dryland watershed. T.e study took place in Arizona.

A photograph of a hillside where a fire came though and destroyed the vegetation.

Field plots used to evaluate fine-scale soil burn serveity to calibrate and validate image classifications from Unoccupied Aerial Systems (UAS). Photograph on the left is from the 1^st year after fire, and the photograph on the right is from the second year after fire.

A) Post-wildfire 1.2 cm orthoimage draped on a digital terrain model showing a study site that burned in the 2020 LNU Lightning Complex fire, and B) pre-fire lidar canopy height data showing the vegetation structure of the site.

A) USGS UAS pilot Sky Corbett collecting true color imagery from a UAS mounted Ricoh GRII sensor to generate orthoimagery and digital surface models in 2020, and B) Joe Adams calibrating the multispectral MicaSense sensor used to gather information on vegetation and soils in 2022, two years after the fire occurrence

Babocomari fig 6 Figure 6. Post weirs installed by BR, with Laura Norman, Natalie Wilson, and James Callegary (USGS) in the field.

Mapping drainages in the Chiricahua Mountains impacted by large rain events.

Mapping drainages in the Chiricahua Mountains impacted by large rain events.

Figure 4. Chloe Fandel’s Master Thesis. Sierra Vista sub-basin aquifer using rainwater harvesting in the tributaries of the San Pedro River using low-technology methods. Research is being conducted on the Babacomari Ranch.

Drawings by Chloé Fandel, Graduate Student at the University of Arizona.

This is a photo of Samuel Chambers to be used for his staff profile and any other use that requires his photo.

This is a map of the Sky Islands of  Madrean Archipelago. It is located in Arizona and New Mexico in the United States and in Sonora and Chihuahua in Mexico.

Dr. Laura Norman has been selected as the 2021 winner of the William C. Ackermann Medal for Excellence in Water Management by the American Water Resources Association (ARWA) Board of Directors and its members.