Project Planning

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Project Planning Monitoring
OWEB/IMST Effectiveness Monitoring Workshop April
2006
Allison Aldous The Nature Conservancy, Portland,
OR
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Define your project
Identify threats
Adaptive management
Develop implement strategies
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Status and viability of biodiversity
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Distribution and Intensity of threat
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Strategy effectiveness
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Dampened peak flow
Hydro dams
Work with ACOE on Flow management
Hydrologic regime peak flow base flow
Low base flow
Irrigation withdrawals
Lobby for incentives for low water crops and
sustainable land management
Work with farmers on BMPs
Riparian Fencing
Unsustainable grazing practices
Stream temperature
Degraded riparian vegetation
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Dampened peak flow
Hydro dams
Work with ACOE on Flow management
Hydrologic regime peak flow base flow
S
T
Low base flow
Irrigation withdrawals
T
S
Lobby for incentives for low water crops and
sustainable land management
B
S
Work with farmers on BMPs
Riparian Fencing
S
T,S
Unsustainable grazing practices
Stream temperature
Degraded riparian vegetation
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Improvements needed

• Monitoring seen as last step - often neglected
• Many examples of ineffective monitoring failing
  to inform ineffective management
• Monitoring poorly funded

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TNC Monitoring Database

• Track metadata for all monitoring projects
• Provide a history of all monitoring project
• Share methods and results across the state

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Recommendations

• Central resource for protocols, data, and
  pitfalls
• Agreement among agencies and organizations to use
  standard protocols
• Resources for smaller organizations to develop
  rigorous sampling designs and data analysis
• Commitment from state and federal agencies to
  fund monitoring
• Funded research to ask questions about
  watershed-scale restoration that crosses project
  boundaries

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Many efforts at coordination

• OWEB / IMST
• USGS PNAMP
• INR / USFS-PNW Regional Biodiversity Monitoring
  Partnership
• ODFW Conservation Strategy Monitoring Team
• Park Service Inventory Monitoring Program
• Defenders Cooperative Registry of Conservation
  Actions