Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative Monitoring

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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation InitiativeMonitoring and Outreach by Wildlands CPR

Adam Switalski


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Wildlands CPR mission:

To revive and protect wild places by promoting

waters e restorat on t at mproves s anwildlife habitat, provides clean water, and

enhances community economies


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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation

Initiative Monitoring Project

Wildlands CPR received a grant from NFF

Help monitor road decommissioning and

aquat c organ sm passage pro ectsfunded by LRTRI

Focus on ecological response


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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation

Initiative Background

December 2007 Congress appropriated $40 million tocreate Initiative

Goal to protect and restore clean drinking water,,

Reduce impacts of roads and trails on these resourcesthrough improving, maintaining, and decommissioning

Continued at $50 million in FY09, $90 million in FY10

Wildlands CPR leads coalition to continue funding(Washington Watershed Restoration Initiative)


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Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative

08/09 Projected Accomplishments

Fix 820 culverts restoring at least 1147 miles ofstream habitat

Improve 2215 miles of road

Decommission 2194 miles of system andunauthorized roads

Fix 166 bridges

Maintain or improve 3170 miles of trail Improve a minimum of 126,008 acres of habitat


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Why Monitoring is Important

Is this Initiative a good use of tax payers $? Do onsite results appear to meet objectives of

Effectiveness monitoring scales:

Site/forest level which methods are mostsuccessful?

Regional level compare methods among forests

Unique opportunity for expanding science


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Wildlands CPR Citizen-assisted

Monitoring of Decommissioned Roads


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Data Collected from Monitoring

Aquatics

Reference, baseline, and decommissioned

Macroinvertebrate surveys

Pebble counts


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Wildlife

Open, gated, barriered, and recontoured roads

remotely-triggered cameras and track plates

800 wildlife hotos and 650 tracks of animals


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Citizen-assisted Monitoring

2,500 hours of volunteer hours

Field trips with rural high schools, university

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Restoration work first-hand

Monitoring methods

Pull weeds

Sprig willows/dogwood


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Wildlands CPRs Legacy Roads and

Trails Remediation Initiative

Monitoring Design

Expand monitoring and outreach across theregion

on tor t e eco og ca response o roadecommissioning and aquatic organism passage

5+ sites on 5+ forests

Before-after comparative analysis (BACA) Before treatment, immediately after

1,2,5,10 years


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Outreach to Local Communities

Field trips to sites

Work with other NGOs to help recruit volunteers

Important component of project See road decommissioning and AOPs first-hand

Learn about monitoring methods

Engage people in forest management


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Locations Clearwater NF


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Locations Kootenai NF


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Locations Lewis and Clark NF


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Locations Lolo NF


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How to Get Involved

Adam Switalski

[email protected]

National Forest Foundation:

www.national forests.org


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Thanks!

Legacy Roads and Trails Remediation Initiative Monitoring

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