WOODY RIPARIAN VEGETATION NEAR SELECTED STREAMGAGES IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES

By Gregor T. Auble,1 Jonathan M. Friedman,1 Patrick B. Shafroth,1 Michael F. Merigliano,2
and Michael L. Scott1

1 U.S. Geological Survey
2 University of Montana

2012

U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 708

ABSTRACT:

Areal cover and occupancy of woody riparian species near 456 streamgages in the western
United States were obtained from site visits during the growing seasons of 1996–2002.
We made concomitant estimates of grazing intensity, channel stabilization and incision,
gradient, sediment particle size, and nearby planting of Russian olive. The purpose of
this publication is to describe the data set and make it available to other investigators
in an electronic format.



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and is substantially complete, the USGS reserves the right to revise the data pursuant to
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CONTENTS:

This report consists of a pamphlet and 7 electronic files (and a zip file of those 7 files).
in April of 2015 a change was made in the geometry.csv file for gage 11395030, correcting a 
numeric error in CHANAREA.

DS708.pdf
01Readme.txt

DATA FILES: in DS708_datafiles.zip
	
	CoverArea.csv
	Gages.csv
	Geometry.csv
	Indicators.csv
	Occupy.csv
	SppList.scv
	VARIABLESandFILES.pdf
	
VI. INSTRUCTIONS AND DOCUMENTATION FOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DATA SERIES 708

To access the data:

The data files can be downloaded via the web from http://pubs.usgs.gov/ds/708.The main product is
a Portable Document Format (.pdf) map and pamphlet which requires Adobe Acrobat for viewing.
Acrobat software runs on a variety of systems, and is available for download free of charge from Adobe
at http://www.adobe.com.

The .csv files can be read in a wide variety of formats. Excel viewer is a format that will open
these files, and a free download can be obtained from Microspft at http://www.microsoft.com/download