Title: Monitoring Riparian Restoration: Making the most with limited data from the Cosumnes River Floodplain Running Head : Monitoring Riparian Restoration Joshua H. VIERS ‡ Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616 Email: jhviers@ucdavis.edu Telephone: (530) 754-6051 Facsimile: (530) 752-9515 Ingrid B. Hogle Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California, Davis Email: ibhogle@ucdavis.edu James F. Quinn Department of Environmental Science & Policy University of California, Davis Email: jfquinn@ucdavis.edu ‡ Author to whom inquiries should be addressed. Submitted to: San Francisco Estuary & Watershed Science Number of Words: ~9000 Number of Words in Abstract: 176 Keywords: riparian restoration, monitoring, GIS, California Bay-Delta, Cosumnes River