{"id":580,"date":"2017-02-10T10:35:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/?page_id=580"},"modified":"2017-02-10T10:35:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T17:35:26","slug":"yosemite-valley-restoration-plan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/yosemite-valley-restoration-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite Valley Restoration Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/shapeimage_2-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-586\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/shapeimage_2-7-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/shapeimage_2-7-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/shapeimage_2-7.png 601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 522px) 100vw, 522px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC04498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-585\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC04498-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC04498-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC04498.jpg 374w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC03796.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-584\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/DSC03796-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_1-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-582\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_1-2-300x203.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_2-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-583\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_2-2-300x246.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_2-2-300x246.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage_2-2.png 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-581\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/droppedImage-5.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"212\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maps and photos of Yosemite valley from the middle to late 1800s indicate that the valley was a large meadow complex.\u00a0 However, ditching, fire suppression, stream channelization through numerous bridges, underground utilities, and other disturbances allowed meadows to dry and conifer trees to encroach.\u00a0 The map above was created by Whitney in 1868 and shows large meadows.\u00a0 The black and white photo above from 1899 shows ditches, roads, and conifer encroachment.\u00a0 The color photo above, taken in 2006 shows nearly complete cover of the valley by conifer trees.\u00a0 We worked for two years to identify former meadow areas, identify the major hydrologic processes that supported the meadows and developed a set of restoration goals and targets. These data are presented in the attached report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2017\/02\/CooperWolfYoseValleyFinalReportSept2008.pdf\">Cooper&amp;WolfYoseValleyFinalReportSept2008<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maps and photos of Yosemite valley from the middle to late 1800s indicate that the valley was a large meadow complex.\u00a0 However, ditching, fire suppression, stream channelization through numerous bridges, underground utilities, and other disturbances allowed meadows to dry and conifer trees to encroach.\u00a0 The map above was created by Whitney in 1868 and shows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-580","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/580\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.warnercnr.colostate.edu\/davidcooper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}