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Landscape Inventory and Assessment

Landscape Inventory and Assessment. Spring 2004 Walter Poleman, Instructor. Observation. Questions. Inventory Question. Process Question. What is there? How many?. Why?. Pattern Question. Monitoring Question. Is this different from that?. Landscape Researcher. Observations. Questions

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Landscape Inventory and Assessment

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  1. Landscape Inventory and Assessment Spring 2004 Walter Poleman, Instructor

  2. Observation Questions Inventory Question Process Question What is there? How many? Why? Pattern Question Monitoring Question Is this different from that?

  3. Landscape Researcher Observations Questions (Process and Pattern) Hypotheses Collect data

  4. Landscape Researcher Observations Questions (Process and Pattern) Hypotheses Collect data

  5. Landscape Manager Landscape Researcher Observations Management Objectives Questions (Process and Pattern) Hypotheses Collect data

  6. Landscape Manager Management Objectives Questions (Inventory and Pattern) Collect Data Inventories and Maps Landscape Researcher Observations Questions (Process and Pattern) Hypotheses Collect data

  7. Add DOQ

  8. The Management Planning Process

  9. The Management Planning Process • Determine Objectives

  10. The Management Planning Process • Determine Objectives • Assess Current Landscape Condition

  11. The Management Planning Process • Determine Objectives • Assess Current Landscape Condition • Determine Desired Landscape Condition

  12. The Management Planning Process • Determine Objectives • Assess Current Landscape Condition • Determine Desired Landscape Condition • Design and Implement a Management Plan

  13. The Management Planning Process • Determine Objectives • Assess Current Landscape Condition • Determine Desired Landscape Condition • Design and Implement a Management Plan • Monitor Changes

  14. What are the management objectives for this parcel of public land? What is the proper role of consultants in developing a management plan?

  15. Finding Common Ground: Conserving the Northern Forest Recommendations of the Northern Forest Lands Council Principles of Sustainability

  16. The Principles of Sustainability • Maintenance of soil productivity • Conservation of water quality • Maintenance or creation of a healthy balance of forest age classes • Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products • Improvement of the overall quality of the timber resource as a foundation for more value-added opportunities • Maintenance of scenic quality by limiting adverse aesthetic impacts of forest harvesting, particularly in high elevation areas and vistas • Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna • Protection of unique or fragile areas • Continuation of opportunities for traditional recreation

  17. More Principles of Sustainability • Conservation of historical and cultural features • Enhanced opportunities for place–based education

  18. How to Integrate? • Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products • Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna

  19. Goal for landscape Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products What are the central questions we need to answer? Assessing Current Condition

  20. Goal for landscape Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products What are the central questions we need to answer? What is the current volume, type, and quality of standing timber? How is the standing timber distributed across the landscape? How healthy are the commercially valuable tree species? Assessing Current Condition

  21. Goal for landscape Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna What are the central questions we need to answer? Assessing Current Condition

  22. Goal for landscape Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna What are the central questions we need to answer? What species currently inhabit the landscape? What natural communities are represented? What is the occurrence of rare, threatened or endangered species on the landscape? Assessing Current Condition

  23. Current Landscape Condition Resource Extraction Monitor Results Management Plan Desired Future Landscape Condition

  24. Time Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  25. Time ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  26. Time ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  27. Time ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  28. Time ~500 million ybp Bedrock Formation ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  29. Time Relevant Processes Bedrock Formation ~500 million ybp • Mountain building • Weathering /erosion • Deposition of eroded sediments • Soil formation ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Forest Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Forest Condition

  30. Time Bedrock Formation ~500 million ybp ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat Relevant Processes • Parent material deposited • Primary succession • Soil development • Climate change (climactic optimum, little ice age) • Natural disturbance • Native American disturbance ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Present Current Landscape Condition Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  31. Time Bedrock Formation ~500 million ybp ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat Relevant Processes clearing for agriculture ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition loss of native species deforestation introduction of exotics soil erosion natural disturbance ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance secondary succession human management Present Current Landscape Condition reforestation natural disturbance habitat fragmentation Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Landscape Condition

  32. Time ~500 million ybp Bedrock Formation ~10,000 ybp Glacial Retreat ~400 ybp Pre-settlement Condition ~150 ybp Peak of Human Disturbance Relevant Processes • human manipulation • success ional pathways • natural disturbance Current Landscape Condition Present Management Plan 100 years from now Desired Future Forest Condition

  33. What is the Desired Landscape Condition from an Integrated Perspective?

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