Browsing by elk soon increased, severely damaging the park's woody vegetation, especially in riparian areas. Similar effects were seen in places like Olympic National Park in Washington ...

Riparian buffers are being impacted by concentrated flow pathways, which are undermining their ability to filter water.

HABITAT: Inyo California towhees nest and forage in areas of dense riparian vegetation dominated by willows, Fremont cottonwood, and desert olive with associated rubber rabbit brush and squaw ...

Yuma clapper rails also need the area to recover, but without the riparian vegetation the situation is becoming increasingly hopeless.” Cow grazing in the area was terminated in 1978 because there was ...

This prevents other plants from growing along waterways ... which is a new city plan to improve water delivery methods, ...