Gila-San Francisco Coordinating Committee - Technical Subcommittee
Reference Literature - Gila-San Fransico Basins

Riparian

• Brock, J. H. (1985). Physical Characteristics and Pedogenesis of Soils in Riparian Habitats Along the Upper Gila River Basin. (USDA Forest Service General Tech. Rep. RM-120). Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, USFS.

• Burkham, D. E. (1976). Hydraulic Effects of Changes in Bottom-Land Vegetation on Three Major Floods, Gila River in Southeastern Arizona. (Geological Survey Paper 655-J). Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office.

• Culler, R. C.; Hanson, R. L.; Myrick, R. M.; Turner, R. M.; Kipple, F. P., 1982, Evapotranspiration before and after clearing phreatophytes, Gila River flood plain, Graham County, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 655-P, 67 p.

• Dick-Peddie, W. A., Hardesty, J. V., Muldavin, E., & Sallach, B. (1987). Soil-Vegetation Correlations on the Riparian Zones of the Gila and San Francisco Rivers in New Mexico.(Biological Report 87(9)). Washington, D.C.:

• Durkin, P., Bradley, M., Muldavin, E., & Mehlhop, P. Riparian/Wetland Communities of New Mexico: Gila, San Francisco, and Mimbres Watersheds. Santa Fe, NM: New Mexico Environment Department.

• Durkin, P.M., Bradley, M., and Muldavin, E., 1997. Riparian plant species diversity of the Rio Grande and Gila, San Francisco, and Mimbres River in New Mexico. Annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America held jointly with the Nature Conservancy on Changing Ecosystems: Natural and Human Influences, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 10-14, 1997.

• Laney, R. L.; Hjalmarson, H. W., 1977, Effects of phreatophyte removal on water quality in the Gila River phreatophyte project area, Graham County, Arizona, with a section on statistical analysis: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 655-M, 23 p.

• McQueen, Irel S.; Miller, Reuben Frederick, 1972, Soil-moisture and energy relationships associated with riparian vegetation near San Carlos, Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 655-E, 51 p.

• Minckley, W. L., & Clark, T. O. (1984). Formation and destruction of a Gila River mesquite bosque community. Desert Plants, 6(1), 23-30.

• Patten, D. T. (1972). Present Vegetation-Environmental Conditions at the Orme, Buttes, Charleston and Hooker Dam Locations. [unpublished report for the Bureau of Reclamation, Boulder City, NV]:

• Ripple, S.R. 1990. Establishment patterns and factors involved in the survival of desert riparian trees in the lower box canyon of the Gila River New Mexico USA. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 71(2): 303-304.

• Rixon, T. F. (1905). Forest conditions in the Gila River Forest Reserve, New Mexico. (Professional Paper No. 39). Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.

• Turner, R. M. (1974). Quantitative and historical evidence of vegetation changes along the upper Gila River, AZ. (USGS Professional Paper 655-H). Washington, D.C.: US Government Printing Office.

• US Army Corps of Engineers. (1979). Environmental Assessment for Public Law 84-99, Emergency Levee Rehabilitation on the Gila River, New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM:

• US Army Corps of Engineers. (1979). Grant County Gila No. 5 Levee Rehabilitation Location/Site Map and Typical Levee Section. Albuquerque, NM

• Whiteman, KE. 2004. Vegetation of the Gila River in Grant and Catron counties NM: A shift in Historic riparian plant community assemblages? MS Thesis, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM.