PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS

Plant Ecology and Wetland Science

Lower Ohop Creek Conceptual Design

Client: Nisqually Indian Tribe

Project Description: WPN members Ed Salminen and Nancy Napp, along with Mike Homza of Water Resources Engineering, developed a range of conceptual restoration designs for improving fish production along six miles of Ohop Creek, a tributary to the Nisqually River in Pierce County, Washington. This part of the creek was previously identified by the Nisqually Tribe as limiting to fish production. The project area was predominantly privately owned, and the project required landowner contact and sensitivity to private property rights issues. The plan was completed in 2002, and used by the Tribe to secure additional funding to develop specific restoration designs. A WPN team has also been contracted to undertake this restoration design. (See Lower Ohop Creek Project in Stream Restoration Planning and Design section)

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Mount Hood Meadows Overpass Revegetation Project, Mt. Hood, OR

Client: US Forest Service

Project Description: Nancy Napp coordinated acquisition of local and non-local upland native seed for restoration of native plants for approximately 20 acres of lands disturbed by the Highway 35 Overpass project. Ms. Napp coordinated timing for seeding and supervised hydroseeding contractor. Project implemented by the Federal Highways Program to mitigate a dangerous intersection at Highway 35 and Mount Hood Meadow Ski area.

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Rifle Mitigation Wetland Revegetation, Rifle, CO

Client: US Department of Energy

Project Description: The Rifle mitigation wetland is a 20 acre wetland created by the US Department of Energy. The groundwater is contaminated with high levels of ammonium, complicating revegetation efforts. A neighboring gravel operation pumps groundwater away from the wetland site, further complicating the situation. Nancy Napp worked as part of a team to redesign the mitigation wetland to meet the needs of the 404 permit. A full season of greenhouse and on-site testing revealed native plant species that could tolerate and remediate the toxic levels of ammonium. A seeding and planting plan was developed and implemented in fall of 1999, and spring of 2000. (See revegetation section drawing).

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Monitoring Riparian & Wetland Communities on the Colorado State Forest, Northern CO Rockies

Client: Colorado State Forest

Project Description: The Colorado State Forest is 71,000 acres of State Trust Land located in north central Colorado. Nancy Napp designed and established a wetland and riparian monitoring program for the Colorado State Forest to quantify changes in habitats due to grazing, logging, and recreation. Representative, randomly located transects were established, permanently marked, photographed and located using a GPS, and baseline data taken and summarized.

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Field Testing the BLM Range Health Worksheet

Client: Bureau of Land Management

Project Description: : Nancy Napp participated on the team of professionals conducting the field test of the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) Range Health Worksheet. This was part of a larger pilot project where the BLM was testing methods for doing a National Resource Inventory – an inventory protocol used by the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service). This is a landscape level inventory procedure that identifies large scale landscape patterns. The BLM took this procedure further by intending to assess land health at the same time. The Range Health Worksheet is very similar to the BLM’s riparian ‘Proper Functioning Condition’ protocol for assessing stream health, but focuses on upland parameters.

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Vegetation Mapping and Inventory

Client: Owl Mountain Partnership

Project Description: The Owl Mountain Partnership is a public and private landowner partnership for cooperative resource management in North Park, Colorado. Nancy Napp provided scientific expertise for inventory, monitoring, and resource planning for the partnership. A riparian classification system was developed and riparian and upland inventory data was collected. Nancy developed a vegetation database by conducting data summary and analysis and designing data tables to query for use in making management decisions. Also developed was a reference herbaria of five hundred laminated field specimens, now housed in the Walden Public Library.

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