Integrated Landscape Assessment Project Presentation given at the Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Natural Resources R&D Round Table in Washington, D.C. in March 2011. We were selected as one of eight exemplary collaborate research projects in the nation.

1. MAKING INFORMED WILDLAND
RESTORATION DECISIONS IN THE
NORTHWEST AND SOUTHWEST
INTEGRATED LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT PROJECT
www.oregonstate.edu/inr/ilap
Presentation by
Janine Salwasser, Project Coordinator
Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Natural Resources R&D Round Table
March 15, 2011

2. LANDSCAPES
Photo of Blue Mountains landscape in Eastern Oregon by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

3. PARTNERSHIPS
• FEDERAL • UNIVERSITY
• U.S. Forest Service
• Institute for Natural Resources
• PNW Research Station
• Oregon State University
• Rocky Mountain Research
Station • University of Washington
• Region 3 • University of New Mexico
• Region 6 • NGOs
• STATE • The Nature Conservancy
• Washington Dept. of Natural • Conservation Biology Institute
Resources
• Ecosystem Management, Inc.
• Oregon Dept. of Forestry
• Arizona Division of Forestry • LOCAL GROUPS
• Arizona Dept. of Game & Fish • Tapash Collaborative (WA)
• New Mexico Division of Forestry • Firescape Group (AZ)

4. JOBS
Photo of some ILAP team members on flanks of Mt. Hood, Oregon by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

5. INFORMED RESTORATION DECISIONS

6. WHAT ARE CURRENT AND FUTURE
TRENDS IN VEGETATION CONDITIONS?

7. NORTHWEST LANDSCAPES

8. SOUTHWEST LANDSCAPES
Photo of Arizona’s Chihuahuan Desert landscape by Miles Hemstrom, USFS-PNW

9. WILL MANAGEMENT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
ON THE LANDSCAPE?

10. ARE WILDLIFE HABITATS IMPROVED?
Photo of Northern Spotted Owls in Oregon’s Cascade region by James Johnston, INR

11. IS WILDFIRE RISK REDUCED?
Photo of Ponderosa Pine forest with high wildfire risk by Miles Hemstrom, PNW Research Station

12. ARE REVENUES GENERATED?
Photo of Lumber Mill in Seneca, Oregon by James Johnston, INR

13. ARE RURAL COMMUNITIES ENHANCED?
Photo of Simpson Lumber mill in Shelton, Washington
Wikipedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simpson_lumber-Shelton_Washington.jpg

14. CAN WE HELP MAKE MORE INFORMED
RESTORATION DECISIONS?

15. TEAM DYNAMICS
Science Delivery Knowledge Discovery Decision Support

16. SCIENCE DELIVERY
Existing
vegetation data
Starting
Potential
vegetation vegetation
conditions State and Transition Models
Ownership
Allocations
Future
vegetation
Watershed
boundaries
conditions
HUC 5

17. WALL – TO – WALL VEGETATION DATA
For SW region

18. KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY
Economic Wildlife
potential habitats
Incorporate
management
scenarios Fuels
Wildlife habitat
Fuel treatment economics
Community economics
State and Transition
Models Community Wildfire-fuel
economics hazards
Interpretations

19. COMMUNITY IMPACT SCORES
for NW watersheds
DISTRESS CAPACITY POLICY
IMPACTS
Draft outputs DRAFT

20. DECISION SUPPORT
Wildfire-fuel Wildlife
hazards habitat
User
Inputs
Decision
Support
Community Fuel
Economics Treatment
Economics

21. WATERSHED PRIORITIES
Improved Wildlife Habitats
Positive Community Economics
Positive Treatment Revenues
Decreased Fuel Reductions
Increased Water Supply

22. IMPACTS
• Informing Forest Planning
• Supporting 2015 Statewide
Assessments
• Assisting Collaborative Forest
Landscape Restoration Groups
• Informing Landscape
Conservation Collaboratives
• Supporting Recovery Planning
• Evaluating Proposed Policies

23. PROJECT PRODUCTS & ACCESS
www.oregonexplorer.info
10/18/10

24. Vision for the Future of ILAP
Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer image of the West by NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MISR Team
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/HPDOCS/misr/misr_html/usa_canada_west.html

25. For more information about the
Integrated Landscape Assessment
Project,
please contact:
Janine Salwasser, project coordinator
janine.salwasser@oregonstate.edu
541.737.9921
Miles Hemstrom, Forest Service project leader
mhemstrom@fs.fed.us
503.808.2006
www.oregonstate.edu/inr/ilap
Lisa Gaines, project Co-Principal Investigator
Lisa.gaines@oregonstate.edu
541-737-1976