Landscape Inventory and Assessment Spring 2004 Walter Poleman, Instructor.

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Landscape Inventory Landscape Inventory and Assessmentand Assessment

Spring 2004Spring 2004

Walter Poleman, InstructorWalter Poleman, Instructor

Observation

Questions

Process Question

Pattern Question

Inventory Question

Monitoring Question

Why? What is there? How many?

Is this different from that?

Landscape Researcher

Observations

Questions

(Process and Pattern)

Hypotheses

Collect data

Observations

Questions

Hypotheses

Collect data

Observations

Questions

Hypotheses

Collect data

Landscape ManagerManagement Objectives

Observations

Questions

Hypotheses

Collect data

Landscape ManagerManagement Objectives

Questions

(Inventory and Pattern)

Collect Data

Inventories and Maps

Add DOQ

The Management Planning The Management Planning ProcessProcess

1.1. Determine ObjectivesDetermine Objectives

2.2. Assess Current Landscape ConditionAssess Current Landscape Condition

3.3. Determine Desired Landscape Determine Desired Landscape ConditionCondition

3.3. Determine Desired Landscape ConditionDetermine Desired Landscape Condition

4.4. Design and Implement a Management Design and Implement a Management PlanPlan

3.3. Determine Desired Landscape ConditionDetermine Desired Landscape Condition

4.4. Design and Implement a Management PlanDesign and Implement a Management Plan

5.5. Monitor ChangesMonitor Changes

What are the management objectives for this parcel of public

What is the proper role of consultants in developing

a management plan?

Finding Common Ground:

Conserving the Northern Forest

Recommendations of the

Northern Forest Lands Council

Principles of Sustainability

The Principles of SustainabilityThe Principles of Sustainability

► Maintenance of soil productivity► Conservation of water quality► Maintenance or creation of a healthy balance

of forest age classes► Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other

forest products► Improvement of the overall quality of the

timber resource as a foundation for more value-added opportunities

► Maintenance of scenic quality by limiting adverse aesthetic impacts of forest harvesting, particularly in high elevation areas and vistas

► Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna

► Protection of unique or fragile areas ► Continuation of opportunities for traditional

recreation

More Principles of SustainabilityMore Principles of Sustainability

► Conservation of historical and cultural features► Enhanced opportunities for place–based

education

How to Integrate?How to Integrate? ► Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood,

and other forest productsand other forest products

► Conservation and enhancement of Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of habitats that support a full range of native flora and faunanative flora and fauna

Assessing Current ConditionAssessing Current Condition

Goal for landscap

Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products

What are the

central question

s we need to answer?

Goal for landscape

Continuous flow of timber, pulpwood, and other forest products

What are the

central questions we need

to answer?

What is the current volume, type, and quality of standing timber?

How is the standing timber distributed across the landscape?

How healthy are the commercially valuable tree species?

Goal for landscap

Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna

What are the

to answer?

Goal for landscap

Conservation and enhancement of habitats that support a full range of native flora and fauna

What are the

to answer?

What species currently inhabit the landscape?

What natural communities are represented?

What is the occurrence of rare, threatened or endangered species on the landscape?

Current Landscape Condition

Desired Future Landscape Condition

Management Plan

Resource Extraction

Monitor Results

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Peak of Human Disturbance

~150 ybp

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Pre-settlement Condition

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Glacial Retreat

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Bedrock Formation

Glacial Retreat

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

~500 million ybp

Desired Future Forest Condition

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Bedrock Formation

Glacial Retreat

Current Forest Condition

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

~500 million ybp

Relevant Processes•Mountain building

•Weathering /erosion

•Deposition of eroded sediments

•Soil formation

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Bedrock Formation

Glacial Retreat

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

~500 million ybp

Relevant Processes•Parent material deposited

•Primary succession

•Soil development

•Climate change (climactic optimum, little ice age)

•Natural disturbance

•Native American disturbance

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Bedrock Formation

Glacial Retreat

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

~500 million ybp

Relevant Processes

deforestation

reforestation

clearing for agriculture

loss of native species

introduction of exoticssoil erosion

secondary succession

human management

natural disturbance

habitat fragmentation

Desired Future Forest Condition

Management Plan

Present

100 years from now

Bedrock Formation

Glacial Retreat

~150 ybp

~400 ybp

~10,000 ybp

~500 million ybp

Relevant Processeshuman manipulation

success ional pathways

natural disturbance

What is the Desired What is the Desired Landscape Condition from Landscape Condition from an Integrated Perspective?an Integrated Perspective?

Timeline of Commitments

May 13 – Deliver natural resource inventory, ecological assessment, and management recommendations to VT Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation (report and presentation)

May 12 – Give an evening PLACE presentation to the South Hero Land Trust Board

March 29 - Give an interim presentation to project sponsors and garner feedback

March 29 - Give an interim presentation to Project Sponsors and garner feedback

January 26 – Meet with sponsors

Landscape Inventory and Assessment Spring 2004 Walter Poleman, Instructor.

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