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Video: Sustaining Wetlands & Watersheds with Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay
Riparian corridors are lifelines for the wildlife and communities of the Intermountain West. These corridors are home to many of the region’s wetlands and are sustained by seasonal water cycles. This means that the wildlife that depends on wetlands, from migratory waterbirds to big game animals, can often be found using riparian areas. Much of…
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Low-Tech Methods to Promote Healthy Streams and Meadows: A Factsheet
Learn about simple, low-tech methods that help promote healthy streams and meadows by slowing runoff, spreading water, and boosting productivity. Learn About Low-Tech Restoration Practices As low-tech methods to restore healthy streams and meadows are implemented across the West, more and more people are becoming aware of these approaches. We created a factsheet in online…
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High But Not Dry
An article in Western Confluence magazine explores the places where flood irrigation might be doing more good than harm. Every spring, Chris Williams looks forward to seeing the terns alight on the meadows of the southern Wyoming ranch that he manages. It’s a fleeting sight—the birds are there for one day and then they’re gone, off…
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IWJV Featured in “On the Ground” Podcast
The IWJV’s Partnering to Conserve Sagebrush Rangelands is featured in a new episode of the Bureau of Bureau of Land Management’s podcast, On the Ground. Listen here!: The episode interviews Grace Hershberg and Ethan Kalinowski. These two members of the IWJV’s Sage Capacity Team are stationed in different corners of Montana to facilitate ecological restoration…
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A Look at the Montana Groundwater Investigation Program
Q&A with Jenna Dohman, Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology Hydrogeologist Jenna Dohman’s work with the Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology’s Montana Ground Water Investigation Program includes a groundwater monitoring project on the Big Hole River, where most private land agricultural irrigation involves flood-irrigating grass hay. Dohman is measuring surface water at 16 sites…
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Learning more about how irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States
A Q&A with David Ketchum, USGS remote sensing and geospatial information specialist David Ketchum’s research with the University of Montana, Irrigation intensification impacts sustainability of streamflow in the Western United States, looks into the relationship between irrigation intensification and in-stream flows in watersheds across the western United States. As climate-change-induced drought impacts water availability for…
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Wetland Benefits of Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay
SUPPORTING SCIENCE & RESOURCES Wetland Evaluation Tool This spatial wetland analysis product enables users to track changes in surface water over space and time. Download the Data Access the data behind the Working Wetlands Explorer. Contact Teagan Hayes for more information. Read the Insights The Intermountain Insights provides an overview of the science and its…
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IWJV Science: Flood-Irrigated Grass Hay Sustains Western Wetlands
Flood irrigating grass hay meadows is a practice that has long enabled ranchers in the snowmelt-driven systems of the western United States to produce forage for livestock and sustain their operations. But as water scarcity increases throughout this semi-arid region, conversion to irrigation practices like center-pivot or other sprinkler systems, these irrigation systems are threatened—along…
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One-Stop-Shop for Zeedyk Resources
As wet meadows restoration efforts grow, managers and implementers need to access the top resources. In our Zeedyk One-Stop Shop, we’ve collected those important materials on this page. This includes factsheets, videos and online training modules, technical documents, research publications, planning and permitting examples, stories of success, and spatial data tools. Our resources focus on…
