San Juan Mountains Workshop

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San Juan Mountains Workshop

• USDA Forest Service
• USDI Bureau of Land Management

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USFS and BLM

• Federal land management agencies
• USFS - Dept. of Agriculture
• BLM - Dept. of Interior
• Co-located and working together in southwestern
  Colorado
• Land management agencies
• Multiple-use mandates

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Caring for the Land and Serving People

• Both agencies are stewards of public lands
• Maintaining the health of National Forest and BLM
  lands
• Preserving options for future generations
• BLM and National Forest lands provide a wide
  variety of goods and services to people

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San Juan Public Lands Center
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Southwestern Colorado
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Uses of the BLM/USFS Lands

• Water production water quality
• Timber harvesting
• Livestock grazing
• Mineral production
• Recreation
• Wilderness
• Wildlife and fish habitat

• Preservation interpretation of historical,
  cultural and archeological resources

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Our Current Focus
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Research

• System of USFS Research Stations
• Reliance on Colleges and Universities for most
  primary research
• Fund some research though cost-share agreements

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Management Planning, Implementation, Monitoring

• Wide variety of data is used for planning
• Forest Plans (USFS)
• Resource Management Plans (BLM)
• Project decisions
• Data is also used for monitoring and evaluation

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Data Examples

• Remote Sensing Information
• Aerial Photos

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Data Examples

• Remote Sensing Information
• Aerial Photos
• Digital Orthophoto Quads

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Data Examples

• Remote Sensing Information
• Aerial Photos
• Digital Orthophoto Quads
• Satellite Imagery

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Data Examples

• Political and Administrative
• States, counties, cities, and towns
• National Forest and BLM boundaries
• National Park boundaries
• Indian Reservation boundaries
• Wilderness boundaries
• Township, range, sections

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Data Examples

• Management areas
• Forest management areas
• Recreation management areas
• Travel management zones

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Data Examples

• Physical features
• Watersheds

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Data Examples

• Physical features
• Watersheds
• Streams
• Lakes
• Topography

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Data Examples

• Physical features
• Watersheds
• Streams
• Lakes
• Topography
• Geology
• Soils

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Data Examples

• Infrastructure
• Roads
• Trails
• Campgrounds

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Data Examples

• Vegetation
• Existing vegetation

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Data Examples

• Vegetation
• Existing vegetation
• Activities (changes to vegetation over time due
  to timber harvesting, fire, etc.)
• Generated layers, such as riparian areas

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Riparian Areas Generated From CVU
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Other Data Examples

• Wildlife Habitat Maps often from other sources
• Colorado Division of Wildlife
• US Fish and Wildlife Service
• Colorado Natural Heritage Program
• Archeological Sites
• Social Economic Demographic Data

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Data Storage

• USFS
• GIS coverages in ARC Info
• Tabular Data mostly in Oracle
• Sometimes with MS Access interface
• BLM
• GIS coverages in ARC Info
• Tabular data in a variety of data bases

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Data Dissemination

• Most data is available upon request
• Some data, such as archeological site locations
  is restricted
• Many San Juan National Forest GIS coverages are
  available for downloading on the internet
• http//www.fs.fed.us/r2/sanjuan/

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Click here for San Juan coverages
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A list of compressed export coverages for the San
Juan National Forest.
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Data Maintenance

• Primary data is permanently maintained
• National structures for commonly used data
• Local structures for others
• Secondary data is sometimes maintained depends
  on the specifics

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Future Research Needs

• Ecological processes
• Wildlife habitat relationships
• Environmental effects of oil and gas production
• Recreation visitor preferences
• Relationships between communities and public
  lands
• Interrelationships between activities
• Livestock grazing aspen regeneration following
  harvest