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North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP) CVS/EEP Vegetation Monitoring Protocol

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District. North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP) CVS/EEP Vegetation Monitoring Protocol. Why are we doing this…. ?. The Why…. MOA Mandate and overarching goals Current Status of Vegetative Monitoring Opportunity. Overarching….

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North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (EEP) CVS/EEP Vegetation Monitoring Protocol

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  1. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Wilmington District North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program(EEP)CVS/EEP Vegetation Monitoring Protocol

  2. Why are we doing this… ?

  3. The Why… • MOA Mandate and overarching goals • Current Status of Vegetative Monitoring • Opportunity

  4. Overarching… • EEP Monitoring has three primary objectives: • Develop functional measures • Demonstrate net ecological benefit at project and watershed/catchment scale • Change/guide regulatory policy of success criteria through monitoring data

  5. Current Status of Veg Monitoring • 260 woody stems/acre surviving at year 5 of monitoring

  6. Current Status of Veg Monitoring (the before…) • Based on wetland hardwood guidance from mid-70s • Pushes succession • Many different sampling techniques • Compared to what?? • Variability of sites • streams, wetlands, marshes, BMPs??

  7. Current Status of Veg Monitoring (the after…) • Based on established technique • Standardization of sampling • Examines other characteristics besides survival • Analysis of community trends • Compared to existing reference database

  8. Opportunity • Number of projects • Location of projects • USE THE DATA!!!!

  9. Opportunity • Number of projects • Design Bid Build • 110 projects in monitoring now • 56 projects in some phase of design/construction • Full Delivery • 75 projects in monitoring this year • 75 more in design and construction Total-316 projects

  10. Ecoregions for Functional Assessment

  11. Ecoregions with Project Locations

  12. Challenges to Monitoring • Consistency • Documentation of pre-restoration conditions (in a large developing program pressured by a time commitment) • Trend assessment with limited evaluation period (and data points, costs constraints) • Site specific vs watershed (scale) • Functional measures

  13. So what does CVS do for EEP? • Consistency (save $$??) • Data management/analysis (save $$) • Reference community info (save $$) • Better data for Closeout

  14. EEP Monitoring Folks Rita Mroczek-Wetland specialist Steve Roberts-Vegetation specialist Kevin Miller- Research/Grants Coordinator Greg Melia- Stream specialist Zack Mondry- Stream specialist

  15. NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program 1652 Mail Service Center Raleigh, NC 27699-1652 (919) 715-0476 www.nceep.net Mac Haupt Mac.Haupt@ncmail.net 919-715-1070

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