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Abstract Unpaved forest roads remain a pervasive disturbance on public lands and mitigating sediment from road networks remains a priority for management agencies. Restoring roaded landscapes is becoming increasingly important for many native coldwater fishes that disproportionately rely on public lands for persistence. However, effectively targeting restoration opportunities requires a comprehensive understanding of the effects of roads across different ecosystems. Here, we combine a review and a field study to evaluate the status of knowledge supporting the conceptual framework linking unpaved forest roads with streambed sediment. Through our review, we specifically focused on those studies linking measures of...
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This document describes the long-term monitoring program of the Southwestern Crown of theContinent Collaborative (SWCC) developed as part of the Collaborative Forest Landscape RestorationProgram (CFLRP). It explains the goals, principles, organizational structure, and monitoring approach ofthe SWCC. It was developed by the members of the SWCC Monitoring Committee during 2011/2012 andwas reviewed by the full SWCC. It represents a common vision for evaluating and improving forestrestoration efforts in western Montana. The document is organized around the objectives of the ForestLandscape Restoration Act (FLRA) and the SWCC’s goals for forest restoration in the region.The SWCC identified a strong monitoring program...
We are requesting a final year of funding from the Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) to complete the development and implementation of a novel watershed-scale aquatics assessment and monitoring program as part of the 10-year, 1.5 million acre Southwestern Crown of the Continent (SWCC) Collaborative Forest Restoration Project (CFLRP).  Pilot efforts funded by the GNLCC in 2011 and 2012 brought together a select group of scientists and managers who worked collaboratively to develop (a) an inventory of erosion and sediment delivery that identified key road segments influencing watershed processes, and (b) an effective monitoring approach that addresses both short- and long-term evaluation of...
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FY2019 Multijurisdictional, international landscape with many shared priorities but lacks landscape (inter-jurisdictional) perspective. Landscape conservation design process will provide landscape context and future scenarios to support coordinated conservation investment. FY2020 Entering Phase 2 of a 3-year project, a Landscape Conservation Design (LCD) will deliver a set of strategies that the Crown Managers Partnership and dozens of stakeholders can deploy to achieve desired ecological conditions based on defined, measurable resource outcomes across the Crown of the Continent ecosystem. LCD is a holistic, participatory process bringing stakeholders together to define a desired future for the Crown landscape and...
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Roads are often identified as sources of ecological process disruption. Roads can damage aquatic ecosystems by altering hydrologic, wood, and sediment regimes, degrade water quality, and reduce habitat suitability for aquatic biota. Often sedimentation is singled out as a premiere contributor to degradation. Over the past half century, thousands of miles of roads have been built across federal lands for a variety of purposes. In response to climate change, road restoration is considered a high priority as a means to reduce factors limiting natural processes and native species, particularly as a potential adaptation strategy to assist cold-water fish species. With an extensive road network and limited funding, managers...
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Water is an extraordinarily precious resource across the United States, particularly in the semi-arid West. Efforts to manage this resource effectively have often focused on our public lands, which are the source of more than 75% of the water for millions of people. The challenges associated with managing water sustainably continue to mount with increasing demands, the advent of new stressors like climate change, and other stressors like water quality and habitat degradation associated with expanding watershed development. Over the course of the past three years, the Great Northern LCC has supported the development and testing of a watershed-scale set of monitoring protocols to address numerous current management...
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Date and Time: Sep 24, 2013 (All day)Time: 11am-12pm MDT / 10am-11am PDTUS Forest Service Landscape Science WebinarDan Isaak – Fisheries Research Scientist, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research StationCrowd-sourcing of data is usually associated with citizen science projects. But it is also a powerful way to engage resource professionals from multiple agencies with complimentary goals. Practitioners interacting within and across landscapes benefit from pooling resources to create shared databases and by leveraging analytical capabilities using readily-available digital and social media tools like webpages, email chat, blogs, and cloud computing. Better information about the status and trends of natural resources,...
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The Southwestern Crown Collaborative (SWCC) brings together residents, interested citizens, business enterprises, and conservation organizations to consider creative solutions in the management of National Forests in the Blackfoot, Clearwater, and Swan River valleys. It is an open, independent, volunteer organization that encourages broad participation by all interested parties. The SWCC promotes sustainable forest management, the restoration of watersheds, science-based evaluation of management activities, and opportunities for nearby rural communities to benefit from these lands and waters. Our mission is to work towards a healthy and sustainable landscape in this region taking into account everything from local...
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This project will support the design and development of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program across 1.5 million acres of the Crown of the Continent, as part of a 10-year, landscape-level restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. The Forest Service has directed each of ten Cooperative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects to develop and implement a large-scale monitoring program to inventory current resource conditions and facilitate the short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects to inform future management strategies and actions: the work proposed here would address significant challenges associated with maintaining or improving...
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Trout are one of the most culturally, economically, and ecologically important groups of freshwater fishes in the Rocky Mountain region. However, human impacts and climate change are significantly altering freshwater ecosystems that support native trout species. Despite their broad importance, many of the region’s trout populations are threatened and some require immediate conservation efforts to reverse their decline. Although work is being done to understand and mitigate these changes, the ability to accurately assess vulnerability is currently limited due to a lack of data-driven approaches that incorporate uncertainty and adaptive capacity at scales relevant to effective management. USGS researchers will...
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Summary: Over the last several decades, tens of thousands of miles of simple dirt and gravel roads have been built across forested public land in the United States. Today, managers from the U.S. Forest Service (and other federal and state agencies) have insufficient funding to maintain these roads and have been directed to begin strategically reducing road densities, despite a lack of public support in many regions. When roads are removed or stored, it is often difficult to show that these restoration treatments are cost effective and/or improve aquatic process and function at either site- or watershed-scales. Resolving these issues has become an increasingly urgent matter for managers across the western United...
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FY2013Shrub-dominated ecosystems of the Great Basin are being threatened by disturbances, typically wildfire followed by encroachment of invasive plants (e.g., cheat grass). To mitigate these threats and future changes in the climate to big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata), restorationists require a knowledge base and tools to inform them of the most appropriate seed sources to plant to greatly enhance the success of restoration under contemporary and future climates. We propose to develop climate-responsive seed transfer zones based on associating plant quantitative traits and ecophysiological data from common gardens to the climate of the seed source.
Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 2013, 2014, 2015, Academics & scientific researchers, Applications and Tools, All tags...
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Executive Summary: This project expands existing efforts and partnerships through citizen science monitoring as ameans to engage and inform local communities about climate and natural resource issues. We believe that resiliencein the landscape and communities can be enhanced through recognition of climate change and a collective search foradaptation strategies. Coordinators have worked directly with teachers, students, and community volunteers in threecommunities in the Southwestern Crown of the Continent to monitor stream flow, temperature, and turbidity, andforest conditions that will respond to climate change. We have developed curriculum materials and links to theclassroom. This allows teachers to use local...
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The end of 2014 marked the five-year point of the US Forest Service’s Collaborative ForestLandscape Restoration Program (CFLRP). The Southwestern Crown Collaborative (SWCC) wasone of the original ten projects across the country selected to receive CFLRP funding. Since2010, the SWCC Monitoring Committee has been monitoring restoration treatments conductedon the Flathead, Lolo, and Helena National Forests. We have begun to see results in bothrestoration and monitoring efforts. Our goal is to use those observations in an adaptivemanagement framework to improve, or validate, existing restoration approaches. Somemonitoring results have already been used to plan or alter existing projects.This report summarizes the monitoring...
We are requesting funding to advance implementation of a large-scale aquatics monitoring program as part of a 10-year, 1.5 million acre restoration project established and funded by the U.S. Forest Service in 2010. Pilot work to support a new model for the monitoring and adaptive management of aquatic systems was funded by a Great Northern Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) grant in 2011: this work will be completed in 2012 and will support implementation of a large-landscape inventory of watershed conditions and short- and long-term evaluation of the effectiveness of restoration projects, in addition to informing future management strategies and action. Results will enable more effective restoration and...
The sagebrush steppe is a patchwork of species and subspecies occupying distinctenvironmental niches across the intermountain regions of western North America. These ecosystems facedegradation from disturbances and exotic weeds. Using sagebrush seed that is matched to its appropriateniche is a critical component to successful restoration, improving habitat for the threatened greater sage-grouse and other species. The need for restoration is greatest in basin habitats composed of two subspecies:diploid basin big sagebrush (A. tridentatasubsp.tridentata) and tetraploid Wyoming big sagebrush (subsp.wyomingensis). In this study we assess seed weights across five subspecies-cytotype groups of bigsagebrush and examine...
map background search result map search result map A New Model of Watershed-scale Aquatic Monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the Benefits of Watershed Restoration in the Face of Climate Change Development of Tools and Technology to Improve the Success and Planning of Restoration of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems Linkages between unpaved forest roads and streambed sediment: why context matters in directing road restoration Webinar: Crowd-sourcing, digital media, and building the social networks needed for landscape conservation of native trouts in the climate change era Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Long-Term Monitoring Plan Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Five-Year Monitoring Summary Map: Lynx, Wolverine, and Fisher Monitoring Projects in the Rockies SWCC Adaptive Management Workshops Reports, Publications, Presentations, and Grants Associated with the Southwestern Crown Collaborative Monitoring Program Southwestern Crown Collaborative Website Webinar: A new model of watershed-scale aquatic monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change Quantifying the effects of roads and the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change Webinar: Quantifying the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change: Developing and testing a toolbox for managers that focuses on the impacts of road systems Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design Assessing the Vulnerability of Native Trout in the Northern Rockies: Linking Science and Management for Climate Adaptation Development of Tools and Technology to Improve the Success and Planning of Restoration of Big Sagebrush Ecosystems A New Model of Watershed-scale Aquatic Monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the Benefits of Watershed Restoration in the Face of Climate Change Linkages between unpaved forest roads and streambed sediment: why context matters in directing road restoration Webinar: Crowd-sourcing, digital media, and building the social networks needed for landscape conservation of native trouts in the climate change era Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Long-Term Monitoring Plan Southwestern Crown of the Continent Collaborative Five-Year Monitoring Summary Map: Lynx, Wolverine, and Fisher Monitoring Projects in the Rockies SWCC Adaptive Management Workshops Reports, Publications, Presentations, and Grants Associated with the Southwestern Crown Collaborative Monitoring Program Southwestern Crown Collaborative Website Webinar: A new model of watershed-scale aquatic monitoring from the Crown of the Continent: Quantifying the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change Quantifying the effects of roads and the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change Webinar: Quantifying the benefits of watershed restoration in the face of climate change: Developing and testing a toolbox for managers that focuses on the impacts of road systems Crown of the Continent Landscape Conservation Design Assessing the Vulnerability of Native Trout in the Northern Rockies: Linking Science and Management for Climate Adaptation