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CFLR Monitoring

CFLR Monitoring. Types of Monitoring. Tier 1 : Monitoring that will be done regardless of funding received: Forest Service Preference is to focus on vegetation, e.g. Stand Structure including wildlife habitat components such as snags, dead/down material. Types of Monitoring.

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CFLR Monitoring

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  1. CFLR Monitoring

  2. Types of Monitoring • Tier 1: Monitoring that will be done regardless of funding received: • Forest Service Preference is to focus on vegetation, e.g. Stand Structure including wildlife habitat components such as snags, dead/down material

  3. Types of Monitoring Tier 2: Monitoring and/or research we would like to see completed that could be funded by partners, grants, and so on • Examples include: • Aquatic Invertebrates as a measure of Watershed Restoration • Wildlife Indicator Species for each of the Stand Types • Research by SRME

  4. Types of Monitoring Two Levels of Monitoring: • Landscape Scale • Treatment Area (Stand) Scale

  5. Types of Monitoring Landscape Level – • How are defining landscape? • 800,000 acre restoration zone • Restoration zones around the northern focus areas and southern focus area • HUC 6 • Look at Trend towards restoration as identified in Kauffman papers (or future research) • Change in Fire Behavior (an aggregation of Stand Data collected at Stand or Treatment Unit level)

  6. Landscape Scale Example

  7. Types of Monitoring • Stand/Treatment Level – Separate ranges for the 2 major cover types in the restoration area: • Ponderosa pine • Mixed Conifer: Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-fir Metrics Include: • Trees per acre • Basal Area • Tree species composition • Age Classes • Canopy Cover • Crown Base Height • Canopy Bulk Density • Understory species composition • Presence of noxious weeds/exotics

  8. Forest Service Limitations • Restoration zone is defined in the CFLR Proposal as the Lower Montane (as identified in 2006 Roundtable Report). The definition can be refined as needed. • Current NEPA is based on Kauffman Paper(s). • Doesn’t allow diameter limits or age limits in defining trees to be left after treatment • Future NEPA can be based on what we learn through monitoring and additional research

  9. Forest Service Limitations • Definition of Old Growth is a Forest Plan level decision, not something that can be decided by this group, independent of other stakeholders. • AR has an old growth definition in their Current Forest Plan • Pike doesn’t have an old growth definition but it will be defined when the forest goes through the forest plan revision process in a year or two

  10. Forest Service Preferences: • Metrics need to be easily measured given yearly funding limitations • Desired conditions need to be displayed in ranges, not absolute amounts

  11. MPB in Ponderosa Pine Situation • What we know – • MPB is spreading into Ponderosa Pine Type (PP) • History – • MPB has cause extensive mortality before • Research – • Increased MPB mortality in higher stocking (BA & # trees/acre) and larger diameter trees • What Could Happen - • Could and currently are experiencing heavy mortality in PP type

  12. Mountain Pine Beetle on the ARNF

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