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Landscape Inventory Landscape Inventory and Assessmentand Assessment
Spring 2004Spring 2004
Walter Poleman, InstructorWalter Poleman, Instructor
Observation
Questions
Process Question
Pattern Question
Inventory Question
Monitoring Question
Why? What is there? How many?
Is this different from that?
Landscape Researcher
Observations
Questions
(Process and Pattern)
Hypotheses
Collect data
Landscape Researcher
Observations
Questions
(Process and Pattern)
Hypotheses
Collect data
Landscape Researcher
Observations
Questions
(Process and Pattern)
Hypotheses
Collect data
Landscape ManagerManagement Objectives
Landscape Researcher
Observations
Questions
(Process and Pattern)
Hypotheses
Collect data
Landscape ManagerManagement Objectives
Questions
(Inventory and Pattern)
Collect Data
Inventories and Maps
Add DOQ
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives
2.2. Assess Current Landscape ConditionAssess Current Landscape Condition
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives
2.2. Assess Current Landscape ConditionAssess Current Landscape Condition
3.3. Determine Desired Landscape Determine Desired Landscape ConditionCondition
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives
2.2. Assess Current Landscape ConditionAssess Current Landscape Condition
3.3. Determine Desired Landscape ConditionDetermine Desired Landscape Condition
4.4. Design and Implement a Management Design and Implement a Management PlanPlan
The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess
1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives
2.2. Assess Current Landscape ConditionAssess Current Landscape Condition
3.3. Determine Desired Landscape ConditionDetermine Desired Landscape Condition
4.4. Design and Implement a Management PlanDesign and Implement a Management Plan
5.5. Monitor ChangesMonitor Changes
What are the management objectives for this parcel of public
land?
What is the proper role of consultants in developing
a management plan?
Finding Common Ground:
Conserving the Northern Forest
Recommendations of the
Northern Forest Lands Council
Principles of Sustainability
The Principles of SustainabilityThe Principles of Sustainability
► Maintenance of soil productivity► Conservation of water quality► Maintenance or creation of a healthy balance
of forest age classes► Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other
forest products► Improvement of the overall quality of the
timber resource as a foundation for more value-added opportunities
► Maintenance of scenic quality by limiting adverse aesthetic impacts of forest harvesting, particularly in high elevation areas and vistas
► Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna
► Protection of unique or fragile areas ► Continuation of opportunities for traditional
recreation
More Principles of SustainabilityMore Principles of Sustainability
► Conservation of historical and cultural features► Enhanced opportunities for place–based
education
How to Integrate?How to Integrate? ► Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood,
and other forest productsand other forest products
► Conservation and enhancement of Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of habitats that support a full range of native flora and faunanative flora and fauna
Assessing Current ConditionAssessing Current Condition
Goal for landscap
e
Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products
What are the
central question
s we need to answer?
Assessing Current ConditionAssessing Current Condition
Goal for landscape
Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products
What are the
central questions we need
to answer?
What is the current volume, type, and quality of standing timber?
How is the standing timber distributed across the landscape?
How healthy are the commercially valuable tree species?
Assessing Current ConditionAssessing Current Condition
Goal for landscap
e
Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna
What are the
central questions we need
to answer?
Assessing Current ConditionAssessing Current Condition
Goal for landscap
e
Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna
What are the
central questions we need
to answer?
What species currently inhabit the landscape?
What natural communities are represented?
What is the occurrence of rare, threatened or endangered species on the landscape?
Current Landscape Condition
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Resource Extraction
Monitor Results
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Current Landscape Condition
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Bedrock Formation
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
~500 million ybp
Desired Future Forest Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Bedrock Formation
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Forest Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
~500 million ybp
Relevant Processes•Mountain building
•Weathering /erosion
•Deposition of eroded sediments
•Soil formation
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Bedrock Formation
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
~500 million ybp
Relevant Processes•Parent material deposited
•Primary succession
•Soil development
•Climate change (climactic optimum, little ice age)
•Natural disturbance
•Native American disturbance
Desired Future Landscape Condition
Management Plan
Present
100 years from now
Bedrock Formation
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
~500 million ybp
Relevant Processes
deforestation
reforestation
clearing for agriculture
loss of native species
introduction of exoticssoil erosion
secondary succession
human management
natural disturbance
natural disturbance
habitat fragmentation
Time
Desired Future Forest Condition
Management Plan
Time
Present
100 years from now
Bedrock Formation
Glacial Retreat
Pre-settlement Condition
Peak of Human Disturbance
Current Landscape Condition
~150 ybp
~400 ybp
~10,000 ybp
~500 million ybp
Relevant Processeshuman manipulation
success ional pathways
natural disturbance
What is the Desired What is the Desired Landscape Condition from Landscape Condition from an Integrated Perspective?an Integrated Perspective?
Timeline of Commitments
May 13 – Deliver natural resource inventory, ecological assessment, and management recommendations to VT Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation (report and presentation)
Timeline of Commitments
May 13 – Deliver natural resource inventory, ecological assessment, and management recommendations to VT Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation (report and presentation)
May 12 – Give an evening PLACE presentation to the South Hero Land Trust Board
Timeline of Commitments
May 13 – Deliver natural resource inventory, ecological assessment, and management recommendations to VT Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation (report and presentation)
May 12 – Give an evening PLACE presentation to the South Hero Land Trust Board
March 29 - Give an interim presentation to project sponsors and garner feedback
Timeline of Commitments
May 13 – Deliver natural resource inventory, ecological assessment, and management recommendations to VT Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation (report and presentation)
May 12 – Give an evening PLACE presentation to the South Hero Land Trust Board
March 29 - Give an interim presentation to Project Sponsors and garner feedback
January 26 – Meet with sponsors