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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) is designed to provide up to 10 years of funding to selected initiatives that will implement a landscape strategy to address the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire, restore ecosystems to pre-fire suppression conditions, improve fish and wildlife habitat, improve watersheds, and reduce invasive species. As such, it provides a tremendous opportunity to look collaboratively at a landscape and ask what can be accomplished relative to the CFLRP objectives over a 10 year timeframe. While actual project selection and decisions are the responsibility of the U.S. Forest Service, building a collaborative vision of what can be accomplished and where it might occur...
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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...
We are requesting funding to 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 model projects nation-wide 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 water quality and watershed...
The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CLFRP) was established by Congress undersection 4003(a) of Title IV of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 to foster collaborative,science-based restoration on priority forest landscapes across the United States. Section 4003(b)describes the eligibility criteria for the program that includes the required elements of a landscaperestoration strategy:
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