ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING FOR THE NATIONAL FIRE PLAN
Regions 1 and 4 and the Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS)
1. Purpose: To monitor the 2000 fire events and the subsequent recovery efforts.
Is recovery occurring as we would expect and are treatments effective towards recovery?
Adaptive Management answers the following questions:
- Are natural responses as we expected?
- Are adaptations in management techniques needed?
- Are the treatments (or disturbance events) within natural ranges and moving toward desired conditions?
- Do people and communities understand ecological systems and disturbance events and agree with treatments and management?
Effectiveness Monitoring answers the following quesitons:
- Are the treatments working as intended?
- Do we need to adjust the treatments?
2. Key Principles
- Focus on effects of, responses to, or rehabilitation of 2000 wildfires.
- Focus on the need for knowledge and the implications to management activities.
- Findings apply across the two Regions. Consider stratification and sampling to acquire data.
- Partnership between Research scientists and the National Forest and/or Grasslands personnel.
- One time funding over 1-5 years.
3. Focus Areas
- Watershed, Soils, and Riparian
- Invasive Weeds
- Native seed application and effectiveness
- Social (rural community recovery)
4. The Process
- Identify questions and/or monitoring issues.
- Develop sampling or study design.
- Collect data.
- Analyze data and interpret results.
- Publish and provide technical transfer.
- Adaptive Management.
Members of the Steering Group:
John Palmer
R4 Director of Vegetation Management |
Cindy Swanson
R1 Director of Watershed, Wildlife, Fisheries, and Rare Plants |
Tom Quigley
RMRS Assistant Station Director |
Bob Schrenk
R1 Director of Forest and Range |
Bill LeVere
R4 Director of Biophysical Resources |
Rick Stowell
R1 NFP Deputy Coordinator |
Kerry McMenus
R1 Inventory/Monitoring Coordinator |
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For more information on what the Rocky Mountain Research Station is doing with the National Fire Plan visit their web site RMRS Fire Research in Support of the National Fire Plan.
Last updated May 24, 2002
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