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Invasives Phase I - Plants
Inventory, Mapping, and Monitoring USGS Workshop November 13-14, 2001 Midcontinent Ecological Science Center, Fort Collins, CO
GOAL: The goal of this workshop is to develop a comprehensive understanding of the invasive plant inventory, mapping, and monitoring needs of the Federal bureaus, and to initiate a comprehensive national proposal to meet those needs.
OBJECTIVES: · The USGS will develop an integrated scientific proposal focusing on inventory and monitoring, with an emphasis on mapping, of invasive plants on Federal lands. · The proposal will clearly define the protocols for a standardized approach for data collection and automation. · The proposal will further define the development of models based on the analysis of the data to predict potential locations of invasive species.
Tuesday, November 13
1:00 Introductory Remarks
1:10 Welcome Remarks, Tom Casadevall, USGS Regional Director, Central Region
Insights on Federal and DOI Invasive Plant Issues
1:40 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
2:00 National Park Service
2:20 Bureau of Land Management
2:40 Break
3:00 Bureau of Reclamation
3:20 U.S. Department of Agriculture
3:40 Vegetation/Invasives Pilot Mapping Project (Tom Stohlgren, Tom Owens)
4:15 Remote Sensing of Leafy Spurge (Ralph Root)
4:30 Discussion and Wrap Up
6:00 Social (Coopersmiths)
Wednesday, November 14
8:00 Today's Agenda/Announcements
Briefings on USGS Discipline Capabilities/Activities
8:15 Biology
8:35 Geography
8:55 Geology
9:15 Water Resources
9:35 National Biological Information Infrastructure, Invasives NBII Node
10:00 Break
10:00 -11:30 Discussion Groups - Workgroup discussions to organize proposal components
Inventory (classification standards, data collection, modeling) Facilitator, Frank D'Erchia, Recorder, Jan Coffelt Mapping (standard procedures, aerial photography interpretation, satellite imagery, modeling) Facilitator, Tom Owens Recorder, Carol Giffin Monitoring (field plots, protocols, scheduling, modeling) Facilitator, Tom Stohlgren Recorder, Leanne Hanson
11:30 Lunch 1:00 Discussion Group Reports (Brief reports to provide overview)
2:00 Other Invasives, Tom Stohlgren
2:20 Open Discussion
2:40 Action items/proposal writing assignments
3:00 Adjourn
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