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Applying Adaptive Management to Invasive Species Woody Plant Management in the Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska Kent A. Fricke 1 , Craig R. Allen 2 , and Joseph J. Fontaine 2 1 Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
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69th SWCS International Annual Conference “Making Waves in Conservation: Our Life on Land and Its Impact on Water” July 27-30, 2014 Lombard, IL
Transcript of Fricke adaptive management for ecosystems
Applying Adaptive Management to Invasive SpeciesWoody Plant Management in the Niobrara River Valley, Nebraska
Kent A. Fricke1, Craig R. Allen2, and Joseph J. Fontaine2
1 Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, University of Nebraska-Lincoln2 U.S. Geological Survey, Nebraska Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit
Biological Invasions
Management Strategies for Invasive Species
Simberloff et al. 2013
Achieve Management
Goals
Achieve Management
Goals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Social Acceptan
Social Acceptan
Management Strategies
Allen et al. 2011Williams et al. 2009
Management required
Clear objectives
Opportunity to learn
Monitoring reduces uncertainty
Sustained commitment
Invasive Species and Adaptive Management
Simberloff et al. 2013 Allen et al. 2011
Woody Plant Encroachment in the Great Plains
EASTERN REDCEDAR ENCROACHMENT
Nebraska Forest Service 2013
Changes to Plant and Animal Communities
Horncastle et al. 2005 Limb et al. 2010
EASTERN REDCEDAR IN THENIOBRARA RIVER VALLEY
Photo: Kent Fricke
Niobrara River Valley
EASTERN REDCEDAR IN THE NIOBRARA RIVER VALLEY
•Diminished ecosystem services
Management Required
•Decrease cedar densities•Decease cost of removal
Clear Objectives
•A small cedar market exists•Can we utilize harvestable materials to decrease costs?
Opportunity to Learn
Monitoring Reduces Uncertainty
•Large economic and ecological cost to doing nothing
Sustained Commitment
modified from Williams et al. 2009
Cut, Pile, Burn Logging Wildfire
Achieve ManaGoals
Achieve ManaGoals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Management Strategies
Plant Community Response to Management Alternatives
Photo and Figure: Kent Fricke
Achieve ManaGoals
Achieve ManaGoals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Management Strategies
Surveys- Acceptance- Behavior
Achieve ManaGoals
Achieve ManaGoals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Management Strategies
Site-specific Constraints on Alternative Feasibility
Cut, Pile,Burn
Harvest PrescribedFire
Wild Fire
Do Nothing
Tree Size and DensityTerrainRoad NetworkLandowner AttitudesBureaucracyDistance to MillMill Capacity
Achieve ManaGoals
Achieve ManaGoals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Management Strategies
ObjectivesCut, Pile,Burn
Harvest Prescribed Fire
Wild Fire
Do Nothing
Maximize Ecological BenefitMaximize SocietalAcceptanceMaximize Economic EfficiencyOverallAlternative Value
Management Alternatives
Achieve ManaGoals
Achieve ManaGoals
Ecological OutcomesEcological Outcomes
Management Strategies
EASTERN REDCEDAR IN THE NIOBRARA RIVER VALLEY
Acknowledgements
Kent [email protected]
• Landowners (10)• Funding Sources
– Nebraska Natural Legacy Project– TNC Weaver Grant– Center for Great Plains Studies
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln• Lower Niobrara Natural Resources
District• Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission• The Nature Conservancy
• Natural Resource Conservation Service
• Nebraska Forest Service• US Fish and Wildlife Service• National Park Service• Valentine and Fort Niobrara
National Wildlife Refuges• Nebraska Cooperative Fish &
Wildlife Research Unit
