R1/R4 Technology Transfer Plan ***** DRAFT ***** Adaptive Management and Effectiveness Monitoring Watershed, Soils, and Riparian Focus Area Technology Transfer Plan: Over the next 6-9 months USFS researchers and R1/R4 resource specialists (listed below) will be refining their questions, study plans, and study sites, developing background literature, and generating basic databases to support the Adaptive Management and Effectiveness Monitoring administrative studies. The Technology Transfer goal will be to establish a link between researchers and practitioners, and ensure that the latest information as it is generated through this project is highlighted and readily available. The following routes will be used to establish Technology Transfer for this project: 1. Establish a website to readily provide participants and users with status reports on this project, latest background literature being generated by the studies, project progress reports, developed technical publications, procedures, tools, and databases. The website should be the most cost-effective route to transfer information and maintain over the course of the next five years. Website design and establishment would occur over the next few months, with email marketing to quickly alert the participants and users, to assist in integrating and engaging participants and users, and provide an immediate information source. 2. Host workshops throughout the course of the project to provide face-to-face interaction between the information developers and users. Host the first workshop when sufficient information on the projects has been accumulated in addressing the questions (e.g. data summaries and analysis, generated databases and data layers, application opportunities). Follow-up workshops would be established over the course of the studies to maintain the integration and collaboration between participants and users. Key Questions, Co-Team Leaders, and Study Participants Listed Below: Co-team leaders and study participants must ensure their design is as broadly applicable to both R1 and R4 as possible, and should make as much use of Forest Service personnel as possible. Key Question #1: Are BAER treatments effective at the watershed scale? Areas of emphasis include road management, watershed improvement, and fish habitat improvement or mitigation activities. Co-team leaders are expected to design monitoring systems and/or research efforts into upcoming "in the green" and "in the black" activities directed at these three emphasis areas. Co-team leaders: Pete Robichaud (confirmed) and Gary Decker (unconfirmed). Other key individuals: Jeff Bruggink, Bruce Sims, Bill Elliot, Dan Svaboda (Beaverhead-Deerlodge NF), Alma Winward. Suggest contacting Pat Clark (ARS Boise) or Warren Ririe (Boise NF) regarding grazing effects on watershed. Key Question #2: How are riparian systems affected by wildfire, particularly where fire has been excluded? Can we manage riparian areas to achieve RMOs? Co-team leaders: Kerry Overton (confirmed) and Gina Lampman (confirmed). Other key individuals: Saab, Wollrab, Pilliod, Beth Gardner (Flathead NF), Mike Young. Key Question #3: What are the short- and long-term effects of fires on stream ecosystems? Are effects of fire predictable? What is the structure and character of aquatic habitats, and what is the successional pattern in response to disturbance by fire? How do fire suppression and thinning and prescribed fire mimic natural succession patterns? Co-team leaders: Jason Dunham (confirmed) and Scott Russell - Nez Perce (confirmed). Other key individuals: Luce, Barta, Clayton, Rieman. Key Question #4: How does the continuity of water repellency vary with soil properties? How does water repellency decay over time? How does information about continuity of repellency help to better plan, implement, and maintain BAER activities and projects? Co-team leaders: Charlie Luce (confirmed) and John Nesser (unconfirmed). Other key individuals: Terry Hardy (Boise NF) Key Question #5: Does fire favor non-native fish through expansion and/or displacement of native fishes? What systems are at risk? Do context issues such as connectivity, isolation, location within a watershed, gene flow, etc. matter in terms of risk of extinction? Co-team leaders: Mike Young (confirmed) and Dan Duffield (confirmed). Other key individuals: Russ Thurow, Robert Rose (Salmon-Challis NF) Key Question #6: What are the dominant processes that influence soil erosion and soil productivity? Does fire change these processes? How are these processes influenced by existing uses such as grazing, and how should managers adapt? (Note: originally these questions included water yield and timing changes, but these are covered by key questions in the riparian and aquatic systems sections.) Co-team leaders: Deb Page-Dumroese (confirmed) and Jeff Bruggink (confirmed). Other key individuals: Bruggink, Jurgensen Key Question #7: Are predictive indicators in a standard regional model accurate in determining peak discharge and other flooding and debris flow hazards? (Headwater mass erosion and floods emphasis). Co-team leaders: Sue Cannon (confirmed) and Bob Wintergerst - Beaverhead/Deerlodge(confirmed). Other key individuals: Luce, Barta, Nesser, Bruggink

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