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Land Treatment Digital Library: What have we learned?

Land Treatment Digital Library: What have we learned?. David S. Pilliod , Research Ecologist USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Boise, Idaho. Data management is worth every penny Compilation of disparate data is difficult Collect all but keep track of data quality

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Land Treatment Digital Library: What have we learned?

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  1. Land Treatment Digital Library:What have we learned? David S. Pilliod, Research Ecologist USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center Boise, Idaho

  2. Data management is worth every penny • Compilation of disparate data is difficult • Collect all but keep track of data quality • Share widely because information is powerful and desperately needed

  3. Land Treatment Digital Library A centralized digital library for federal agencies to store and retrieve data on land treatments in the western U.S.

  4. Land Treatment Digital Library What is it? The Land Treatment Digital Library integrates planning and implementation information, seed information, monitoring data, and gis data with original documents and photos associated with a project or treatment

  5. How does the LTDL gets its data?

  6. All “Treatments”

  7. Types of Vegetation Treatments

  8. Vegetation Treatments Over Time

  9. Seeding Treatments

  10. Seeding Treatments

  11. Seeding Treatments

  12. Seeding Treatments

  13. Seeding Treatments

  14. 4,800 Seeding Treatments

  15. 650 Seeding • Treatments • with • Implement Record • Confirm Seed List • Success Reported

  16. Seeding Treatments Success reported as: - Successful - Partially Successful - Failure

  17. Success of Seeding Treatments Important Factors: Higher Elevation Precipitation >10” Loamy soil

  18. Species Seeded in ‘Successful’ Treatments

  19. 40-60% of post-fire seedings re-burned

  20. Assisting Managers and Researchers… • Examples of LTDL Data Calls • All land treatments in sage-grouse habitats • Wildfire aerial seedings in Boise, Twin, and Elko BLM District Offices • Northern Great Basin crested wheatgrass seedings • Herbicide sprayings in southern Idaho

  21. Data management is worth every penny • Compilation of disparate data is difficult • Collect all but keep track of data quality • Share widely because information is powerful and desperately needed

  22. Acknowledgements Funding provided by: Thanks to all on the USGS LTDL crew, Justin Welty (database design), Linda Schueck (web design), Gordon Toevs (BLM POC), BLM Advisory Team

  23. For more information: http://greatbasin.wr.usgs.gov/ltdl/Default.aspx dpilliod@usgs.gov or justin_welty@usgs.gov

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