Daylighting is intended to improve the riparian environment for a stream which had been previously diverted into a culvert, pipe, or a drainage system.
Living shorelines protect surrounding intertidal and riparian environments, improve water quality by filtration of runoff, decrease erosion rates and create terrestrial and aquatic habitats.
Rhododendrons and trout lily are known to line the banks along this section of the brook, adding vibrant colors to the riparian environment during the flowering season in May.
Harvesting of trees around riparian environments is having a large effect of the stream ecosystem where the brook stickleback resides.
A visitor center designed by architect Antoine Predock in 1982 contains exhibits on the area's riparian environment and a glass-walled library that overlooks a wildlife pond.
Much of the areas around the creeks have a typical riparian environment and are more natural than many other areas of the city as a result.
The San Pedro Valley is a site for Holocene mammal fossils because of the riparian environment.
At least one of the species, Z. serrata, is comfortable, in fact common, in riparian environments while being tolerant of heat, drought and lack of nutrients.
Two interpretive trails at the park allow visitors to access the riparian environment along the stream in the canyon and the Oliver Lee Ranch House.
It grows in riparian environments, woodlands, and other habitat, generally in moist areas.