The status and trend determinations were based on a qualitative assessment of factors influencing the condition of the site, including historical alterations, ongoing hydrologic impacts, sources of recreation-related disturbance, and surrounding land use and management. Two long term meadow monitoring plots were installed in the Upper Truckee Marsh in 2014, following the protocol in the U.S. Forest Service Region 5 Range Monitoring Program (Weixelman 2011). The protocol is designed to classify a meadow according to wetland index and plant functional types, which provides a quantitative ecological condition scorecard for that meadow type (Weixelman and Gross In Review). Distance to meadow edge, distance to stream channel, degree of channel incision, and evidence of Sierra lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta var. murrayana) encroachment data is collected at each transect. This data has been collected but the analysis methods are currently in the peer review process, and are expected to be pub
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