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Monitoring
Breakout Group
1.
Justification
·
Existing
laws and mandates
·
Monitoring
needed to help decide if management actions are working
·
Critical
for early detection
·
Determine
effectiveness and treatments and restoration actions
·
Monitor
controls on non-target species (native species)
Objectives
·
Raise
awareness of importance of monitoring
·
Meet
land management goals
·
Evaluate
effects of treatments
·
Data
for adaptive management applications
Agency
mandates may vary
·
NPS
- I&M guidelines and a mandate to protect native species
·
BLM
- rangeland health
·
FWS
- T&E species protection, habitat protection
·
FS
and National Grasslands - to protect native species
·
Interaction
with adjacent public and private land managers
2.
Standards
·
NAWMA
standards
·
Need
some flexibility, but also need to consider the importance of comparability
·
Mapping
standards set stage for monitoring
·
Ultimate
result must be useful to field managers
·
Need
for consistency
·
Coordination
across agencies and state and private land owners and managers
·
Look
for overlap with other monitoring activities
Take
advantage of existing standards:
·
Mapping
standards
·
Plot
and transect standards
3.
Procedures
and methods (protocols)
·
Driven
by land management objectives
·
Must
meet land managers goals
·
Also
meet regional and national priorities
4.
Products
·
Provide
guidelines for managers
·
Decision
Support Systems
·
Provide
training opportunities (team approach)
·
Ancillary
data (soil, fire and other disturbance) all important for modeling aspects
·
Model
products – data from other organizations can help predict what may be coming in
(early detection)
5.
Research
·
Analyze
bias in data
·
Restoration
techniques associated with control and treatments
·
Effects
of biological controls
·
Effects
on non-target species
6.
Modeling
·
Identify
where to monitor based on predictive models and where to add monitoring sites
(iterative approach)
·
Include
economic modeling
·
Risk
assessments and priorities
·
Predictive
models – at land manager site specific resolution
·
Change
detection
·
Predictive
spatial/temporal models – where and when will invasives occur
7.
Collaborative
Activities
·
Share
data and monitoring information
·
Volunteers
can play a role (look at existing systems, some on the web)
·
Baseline
information, early detection
·
Build
political constituency
·
Leverage
other monitoring efforts (fire, forests health)
·
Different
levels of need (ecosystem vs site specific)
·
GPRA
goals
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