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Designating and Managing High Conservation Value Forests
Hawaii HIGICC Geospatial Expo
Forest Solutions, Inc.May 20th, 2014
Tom Baribault, Dustyn Hirota, Willie Rice
Overview
• Hōnaunau: a Forest Stewardship Council Certified Forest
• High Conservation Value Forest Definition• Designation• Management• Monitoring and feedback
Hōnaunau – Forest Stewardship Council Certification
High Conservation Value Forest
Value Description Pertinence
Biodiversity Ecosystems Human
culture Present in HMA
1.
Globally, regionally, or nationally significant concentrations of biodiversity values, including protected areas, rare or threatened species, endemic species, and seasonal concentrations of species.
2. Globally, regionally, or nationally significant large landscape-level forests.
3. Forest areas that are in or contain rare, threatened, or endangered ecosystems.
4.
Forest areas that provide basic services of nature in critical situations, including protection of watersheds, protection against erosion, and destructive fire.
5. Forest areas fundamental to meeting basic needs of local communities.
6. Forest areas critical to local communities’ traditional cultural identity.
Review of available spatial data (2005)
HCVF criteria
HCVF identification procedure
Review of available monitoring data
Plot-level data
Original HCVF Designated Area Representative HCVF Area
Revised HCVF location, 2011
FSC certification requires continual improvement
Google Earth Perspective Map
Spatial Analysis
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Ecosystem quality analysis
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• Native vs non-native percent site occupancy maps
• Canopy and understory components
• Individual & aggregated species density maps
Management Objective
Invasive species management in Hōnaunau Forest should result in forests dominated by native species in which sustained exclusion of invasive species can be accomplished with comparatively little effort
Management Plan – 15 years
GPS tracking field work
GPS files
Designating and Managing High Conservation Value Forests