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Inyo County Water Department — revegetation monitoring

Draft / sandbox — what this means

What: This page is an open, versioned analysis artifact—methods and numbers stay visible while tools mature (Snow et al. 2026).

Why: Closed file-share workflows hide how compliance figures were produced. Publishing drafts lets partners and the public inspect assumptions early, without treating prototypes as adopted policy or Technical Group findings.¹

Purpose

What: Reproducible Quarto reports for ICWD revegetation monitoring under (1) the 2003 Laws Type E transfer plan and (2) the 1991 EIR / 1999 Revegetation Plan (Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 2003, 1999).

Why: Compliance numbers only persuade if the path from field hits to goals is inspectable. Methods, figures, tables, and downloads live together so Technical Group partners, students, and the public can challenge assumptions—not only read percentages (Baker et al. 2025; Snow et al. 2026).

Need	Page
Type E compliance	Revegetation sites
ATTO/ERNA reference means	Reference sites
Shared goals / open caps	Goals & caps summary
Ecological framing	STM · NMDS
1999 Plan 2025 resurvey	1999 Plan monitoring
Citable narratives	Living repository paper · STM/NMDS paper

Source: GitHub. Full 2003-plan amendment draft language is local-only (gitignored).

Open science at ICWD

What problem: Monitoring often lives as spreadsheets and GIS folders findable mainly by people who already know the path—closed by default, even when publicly funded (Nandi et al. 2025).

What we do instead: Liberate analyses into durable, citable, machine-readable forms. Not every notebook must be public on day one; analyses that support decisions should be documented, versioned, and re-runnable.

Closed pattern	Open pattern (this site)
Static emailed tables	Live HTML with methods beside numbers
“Trust the sheet”	Code + data in a public repo
Metadata in email	Documented rules, denominators, goal tests
Hard to find	Indexed pages, downloads, git history

Open here is a commitment to transparency, not a claim that every sensitivity is finished. Incomplete denominators and unscored sustainability criteria are stated as such.

References

Baker, Robert L., Colin Smith, Sarah E. Wright, Issac Quevedo, Kristin Vanderbilt, Carl Boettiger, Judd M. Patterson, and Joe DeVivo. 2025. “NPSdataverse: A Suite of R Packages for Data Processing, Authoring Ecological Metadata Language Metadata, Checking Data-Metadata Congruence, and Accessing Data.” Journal of Open Source Software. https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08066.

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. 1999. “Revegetation Plan for Impacts Identified in the 1991 EIR.” Los Angeles, California: LADWP.

———. 2003. “Laws Revegetation Plan (Type E Transfer).” Los Angeles, California: LADWP.

Nandi, Arnab, Wei-Lun Chao, Rongjun Qin, Carl Boettiger, Hilmar Lapp, and Tanya Berger-Wolf. 2025. “OmniMesh: Addressing Findability Challenges in Distributed Nature Data Repositories.” In Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM), 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3733723.3733728.

Snow, Tasha, Christopher Holdgraf, Wilson Sauthoff, Jessica Scheick, Ellianna Abrahams, Joanna Millstein, Sanjay Bhangar, et al. 2026. “A Path to Better Science Through Co-Creation and Open Infrastructure.” Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists 7 (1): e2025CN000295. https://doi.org/10.1029/2025CN000295.

Footnotes

1. Sandbox means placeholders and sparse labels are allowed during prototyping; challenge numbers in the code and sources, not from a screenshot alone.