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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation InitiativeMonitoring and Outreach by Wildlands CPR
Adam Switalski
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Wildlands CPR mission:
To revive and protect wild places by promoting
waters e restorat on t at mproves s anwildlife habitat, provides clean water, and
enhances community economies
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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation
Initiative Monitoring Project
Wildlands CPR received a grant from NFF
Help monitor road decommissioning and
aquat c organ sm passage pro ectsfunded by LRTRI
Focus on ecological response
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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation
Initiative Background
December 2007 Congress appropriated $40 million tocreate Initiative
Goal to protect and restore clean drinking water,,
Reduce impacts of roads and trails on these resourcesthrough improving, maintaining, and decommissioning
Continued at $50 million in FY09, $90 million in FY10
Wildlands CPR leads coalition to continue funding(Washington Watershed Restoration Initiative)
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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative
08/09 Projected Accomplishments
Fix 820 culverts restoring at least 1147 miles ofstream habitat
Improve 2215 miles of road
Decommission 2194 miles of system andunauthorized roads
Fix 166 bridges
Maintain or improve 3170 miles of trail Improve a minimum of 126,008 acres of habitat
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Why Monitoring is Important
Is this Initiative a good use of tax payers $? Do onsite results appear to meet objectives of
Effectiveness monitoring scales:
Site/forest level which methods are mostsuccessful?
Regional level compare methods among forests
Unique opportunity for expanding science
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Wildlands CPR Citizen-assisted
Monitoring of Decommissioned Roads
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Data Collected from Monitoring
Aquatics
Reference, baseline, and decommissioned
Macroinvertebrate surveys
Pebble counts
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Data Collected from Monitoring
Wildlife
Open, gated, barriered, and recontoured roads
remotely-triggered cameras and track plates
800 wildlife hotos and 650 tracks of animals
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Data Collected from Monitoring
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Data Collected from Monitoring
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Data Collected from Monitoring
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Data Collected from Monitoring
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Citizen-assisted Monitoring
2,500 hours of volunteer hours
Field trips with rural high schools, university
,
Restoration work first-hand
Monitoring methods
Pull weeds
Sprig willows/dogwood
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Citizen-assisted Monitoring
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Citizen-assisted Monitoring
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Wildlands CPRs Legacy Roads and
Trails Remediation Initiative
Monitoring Design
Expand monitoring and outreach across theregion
on tor t e eco og ca response o roadecommissioning and aquatic organism passage
5+ sites on 5+ forests
Before-after comparative analysis (BACA) Before treatment, immediately after
1,2,5,10 years
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Outreach to Local Communities
Field trips to sites
Work with other NGOs to help recruit volunteers
Important component of project See road decommissioning and AOPs first-hand
Learn about monitoring methods
Engage people in forest management
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Locations Clearwater NF
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Locations Kootenai NF
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Locations Lewis and Clark NF
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Locations Lolo NF
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How to Get Involved
Adam Switalski
adam@widlandscpr.org
National Forest Foundation:
www.national forests.org
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Thanks!