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Monitoring Riparian Grazing: Accountability and Sustainability in Land Management

Effective monitoring of riparian grazing practices is essential to ensure accountability, provide feedback on grazing results, and aid decision-making for sustainable land management. Key monitoring approaches include annual assessments, such as tracking actual livestock use, grazing intensity, and plant recovery. Short-term evaluations focus on changes in plant vigor and channel dimensions, while long-term monitoring examines stability in streambanks and plant community shifts. This detailed analysis supports improved practices, promotes ecological health, and enhances riparian areas.

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Monitoring Riparian Grazing: Accountability and Sustainability in Land Management

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  1. Monitoring Riparian Grazing Use

  2. Why Do We Monitor? • To provide accountability for our actions. • To provide feed back on results. • To aid in our decision making What Should We Monitor? Goals and Objectives

  3. Types of Monitoring • Annual: • Actual use. • Grazing intensity. • Plant recovery. • Short-term (3-5 years): • Point-bars. • Channel width. • Over-hanging vegetation. • Changes in plant vigor. • Long-term : • Channel and bank conditions. • Plant community changes.

  4. Annual Monitoring • Examples of Annual Grazing Use that should be observed and recorded.

  5. Are livestock in the pasture when planned? Are the correct numbers present?

  6. Did the livestock utilize the forage properly?

  7. Did you clean the pasture?

  8. What were the impacts of the grazing use?

  9. Was there bank displacement?

  10. Determine amount of use

  11. Leave a 4” stubble height on large sedges Observe stubble height-4”

  12. Document regrowth of sedges-6”

  13. Side (edge) browsing - Booth willow

  14. Short Term Monitoring • The following are examples of typical responses that can be used as indicators of progress towards desired conditions. • These are often useful for short term (2-5 years) monitoring following implementation of improved grazing practices.

  15. Brookgrass acts as a temporary filter.

  16. Long Term Monitoring • Document streambank stability and channel improvement • Measure and document plant community changes • Greenline Composition • Vegetation Cross-Section Composition • Woody species Regeneration

  17. Young Salix drumondiana

  18. Mixed roots, sedge/coyote willow

  19. Geyer’s & Booth Willows - Stabilizers

  20. Greenline of non-hydrophytic plant species.

  21. Good willow/sedges, Montpelier Creek, ID

  22. Damage & Natural erosion, 7-Mile Creek, Fishlake NF

  23. Stream Meander

  24. West Muddy Creek, Mule Park, Gunnison NF 1949 2000

  25. Mule Park West Muddy Creek 7/8/1954Allotment grazed season-long by 219 cow/calf pairs from June 24 to October 15. Precip. – 60%

  26. Mule Park West Muddy Creek 7/28/1998 (84%). Allotment managed using a 4-pasture grazing strategy by 700 yearlings from July 5 to October 5.

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