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Wilderness Character Monitoring

Wilderness Character Monitoring. Bureau of Land Management. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM. Grew out of FS and Interagency efforts NLCS Division Chief on board as early as 2002 Wilderness Character Monitoring Team formed in December 2009 1 WO; 3 SO; 4 FO ; SO ecologist

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Wilderness Character Monitoring

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  1. Wilderness Character Monitoring Bureau of Land Management

  2. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM • Grew out of FS and Interagency efforts • NLCS Division Chief on board as early as 2002 • Wilderness Character Monitoring Team formed in December 2009 • 1 WO; 3 SO; 4 FO ; SO ecologist • Implementation Guide • based on 2006 “Reader’s Digest” version of FS Tech Guide • first version April 2010 • now version 1.5 (April 2012) • Director issued IM 2010-190 in August 2010

  3. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM Process • Universal measures, techniques, and definitions

  4. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM Process • Schedule assigned for all 221 areas

  5. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM Accomplishments • Baseline collected for 53 areas (24%) • Implementation Guide refinements have improved data collection • Acceptance, if not priority, in the Bureau • faster than anticipated • more necessary than anticipated • involves many specialists in office • Incorporated into BLM Manual 6340

  6. Wilderness Character Monitoring in the BLM Challenges • Behind schedule • illness and lapsed positions • other workloads (LWC Inventory; energy development) • No central, on-line data repository or analysis capabilities • Missing measures – “native biota”

  7. Poll Question In your opinion, the BLM’s top wilderness character monitoring priority should be to: • Finish baseline data gathering by 2014, even if there are some data gaps that will have to be filled in later and there is no on-line data reporting and storage capability. • Develop complete suite of measures for “native biota,” even if this means the baseline completion target of 2014 is missed and there is no on-line data reporting and storage capability. • Finish on-line data reporting and storage, even if this means the baseline completion target of 2014 is missed and not all measures are defined.

  8. Questions? cvbarns@blm.gov (406) 243-4625

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