Effectiveness Monitoring and the Oregon Plan

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Effectiveness Monitoring and the Oregon Plan

• Greg Sieglitz
• OWEB
• Monitoring and Reporting Manager
• Effectiveness Monitoring Workshop
• 4/18/06

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Who are we? Bobbi Riggers Data Manager-Oregon
Watershed Restoration Inventory (OWRI) TBD
Geographic Information System (GIS) Analyst Becky
Miller Federal Reporting and Analysis Courtney
Shaff Effectiveness Monitoring Specialist Jeni
Gatherum Restoration Data Specialist
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Programmatic Emphasis
Information Management and Distribution Coordinat
ion of Oregon Plan Monitoring Effectiveness
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• Initiated in 1997 Broad-based effort of
  citizens, local watershed groups, the State of
  Oregon, and federal agencies to restore healthy
  salmon populations and their watersheds
• OPSW is statewide program origins come from the
  need to address the decline of Oregon coastal
  coho populations and water quality

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Significant emphasis in OPSW placed on improving
and expanding monitoring designed to provide
statistically robust data on status, trends, and
distribution of salmonids and their habitat
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State of Affairs-1997

• No clear vision
• Lots of data being collected
• Monitoring priorities driven by agency and
  project specific needs
• Limited coordination within and between groups
• Diverse and often incompatible information
  systems

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OWEB Effectiveness Monitoring Program

• Effectiveness Monitoring Coordinator
• Review Western Juniper and Irrigation
  Efficiency
• This Workshop and IMST Findings
• Solicitation - Independent Review of OWEB
  Restoration Projects
• Implementation of Watershed Scale Evaluation
  IMWs/paired watersheds
• Alternative Futures Modeling and Analysis

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Western Juniper (Juniperus occidentalis)
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Western Juniper is a native species!
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Handcutting
Juniper Removal Methods
Untreated, expanding juniper
Trees cut by hand in 1998
Trees cut by hand in 2004
Slide Courtesy of Aaron Holmes, OSU
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Juniper Removal Methods
Burning
Mechanical
Photo Courtesy of ODF
Photo Courtesy of BLM
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Opportunities for Programmatic Enhancements

• Provide guidance about reseeding, removal
  methods, slash treatment, and subsequent grazing
• Establish objectives for grant programs
• Geographic Priorities
• Evaluate costs

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Workshop Goal Create an opportunity for the
exchange of ideas about effectiveness monitoring
of restoration efforts, by a diverse group that
includes scientists, local watershed
representatives, and resource specialists
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Gregs secret hidden agenda
Provide a forum for scientists to present
findings and to engage in a discussion with
implementation specialists and managers about
methods, tools, scales, and lessons learned
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• What do we want to cover?
• Pros and cons of various protocols and methods
• Information gaps and research needs
• Concepts and tools for aggregating data and
  answering questions at larger scales
• Opportunities to increase scientific rigor,
  scope of inference, sample sets, etc.
• Identify opportunities for coordination among
  various monitoring efforts

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Compliance Monitoring

• Monitoring to determine if an action was
  implemented in accord with written rules,
  regulations, contracts, or laws.
• Was the culvert installed correctly?
• Photo courtesy The Confederated Tribes
• of the Grande Ronde

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Implementation Monitoring

• Monitoring to determine if a project was
  implemented as planned.
• Did you do what you said you were going to do?
  (eg. Number of logs placed as proposed)

Photo courtesy Long Tom Watershed Council
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Status and Trends Monitoring

• Characterizes the condition of physical or
  biological attributes across a given area and
  determines the changes in those attributes over
  time.

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Oregon Coast Coho Evolutionarily Significant
Unit (ESU)
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Effectiveness Monitoring

• Monitoring to determine if the restoration
  actions achieved the desired goal or outcome.
• Did the restoration achieve its objectives?

August 1999 All water was diverted just above
this point. Photo courtesy Walla Walla
Watershed Council
August 2002 Agreement resulted in a minimum of
25 cfs sent down the river.
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Challenges Scale

• The biggest challenge is to develop a
  monitoring program that can address needs for
  data at both the site scale (place based) and the
  regional scale. Greg Pettit, ODEQ, Watershed
  Water Quality Monitoring Program Manager
• Site Scale Project, Activity, Reach, Landowner
• Regional Scale Watershed, ESU, Ecoregion, State,
  Nation

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Challenges Variability

• Spatial Variability
• Spatial Variability affects ability to
  extrapolate site data to larger geographies
• Temporal Variability
• Temporal Variability affects ability to detect
  trends and adequately characterize short-term
  deviations

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Effectiveness Monitoring for Policy Makers

• Informs and create solutions
• Provides data on complex natural resource issues
• Assists with future decisions and policies
• Shapes strategic direction
• Adaptive Management

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Credits

• Jeff Rodgers, Jay Nicholas-ODFW
• Greg Pettit-DEQ
• Aaron Holmes, OSU
• Bruce Crawford-WA IAC,SRF Board
• Courtney Shaff-OWEB
• Phil Roni, et. al.-NMFS
• Oregon Plan Believers