integrated landscape assessment project

www.oregonstate.edu/inr/ilap

MAKING INFORMED WILDLAND

RESTORATION DECISIONS IN THE

NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST

INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT PROJECT

March 15, 2011

Presentation by

Janine Salwasser, Project Coordinator

Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Natural Resources R&D Round Table

LANDSCAPES

Photo of Blue Mountains landscape in Eastern Oregon by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

• FEDERAL

• U.S. Forest Service

• PNW Research Station

• Rocky Mountain Research Station

• Region 3

• Region 6

• STATE

• Washington Dept. of Natural Resources

• Oregon Dept. of Forestry

• Arizona Division of Forestry

• Arizona Dept. of Game & Fish

• New Mexico Division of Forestry

• UNIVERSITY

• Institute for Natural Resources

• Oregon State University

• University of Washington

• University of New Mexico

• NGOs

• The Nature Conservancy

• Conservation Biology Institute

• Ecosystem Management, Inc.

• LOCAL GROUPS

• Tapash Collaborative (WA)

• Firescape Group (AZ)

PARTNERSHIPS

JOBS

Photo of some ILAP team members on flanks of Mt. Hood, Oregon by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

INFORMED RESTORATION DECISIONS

WHAT ARE CURRENT AND FUTURE

TRENDS IN VEGETATION CONDITIONS?

NORTHWEST LANDSCAPES

SOUTHWEST LANDSCAPES

Photo of Arizona’s Chihuahuan Desert landscape by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

WILL MANAGEMENT MAKE A DIFFERENCE

ON THE LANDSCAPE?

ARE WILDLIFE HABITATS IMPROVED?

Photo of Northern Spotted Owls in Oregon’s Cascade region by James Johnston, INR

IS WILDFIRE RISK REDUCED?

Photo of Ponderosa Pine forest with high wildfire risk by Miles Hemstrom, PNW Research Station

ARE REVENUES GENERATED?

Photo of Lumber Mill in Seneca, Oregon by James Johnston, INR

ARE RURAL COMMUNITIES ENHANCED?

Photo of Simpson Lumber mill in Shelton, Washington

Wikipedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson_lumber-Shelton_Washington.jpg

CAN WE HELP MAKE MORE INFORMED

RESTORATION DECISIONS?

TEAM DYNAMICS

Science Delivery Knowledge Discovery Decision Support

SCIENCE DELIVERY

Existing

vegetation data

Potential

vegetation

Ownership

Allocations

Starting

vegetation

conditions State and Transition Models

Watershed

boundaries

HUC 5

Future

vegetation

conditions

WALL – TO – WALL VEGETATION DATA

For SW region

KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY

Fuels

Wildlife habitat

Fuel treatment economics

Interpretations

Community economics

Incorporate

management

scenarios

State and Transition

Models Wildfire-fuel

hazards

Wildlife

habitats

Community

economics

Economic

potential

COMMUNITY IMPACT SCORES

for NW watersheds

DRAFT

DISTRESS CAPACITY POLICY

IMPACTS

Draft outputs

DECISION SUPPORT

Wildfire-fuel

hazards

Community

Economics

Wildlife

habitat

Fuel

Treatment

Economics

Decision

Support

User

Inputs

Improved Wildlife Habitats

Positive Community Economics

Positive Treatment Revenues

Decreased Fuel Reductions

Increased Water Supply

WATERSHED PRIORITIES

• Informing Forest Planning

• Supporting 2015 Statewide

Assessments

• Assisting Collaborative Forest

Landscape Restoration Groups

• Informing Landscape

Conservation Collaboratives

• Supporting Recovery Planning

• Evaluating Proposed Policies

IMPACTS

10/18/10

PROJECT PRODUCTS & ACCESS

www.oregonexplorer.info

Vision for the Future of ILAP

Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer image of the West by NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team

http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/usa_canada_west.html

Janine Salwasser, project coordinator

janine.salwasser@oregonstate.edu

541.737.9921

Miles Hemstrom, Forest Service project leader

mhemstrom@fs.fed.us

503.808.2006

Lisa Gaines, project Co-Principal Investigator

Lisa.gaines@oregonstate.edu

541-737-1976

For more information about the

Integrated Landscape Assessment

Project,

please contact:

www.oregonstate.edu/inr/ilap