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Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Project FY2014 -2016 Pilots Measuring Mon Success: U. Oregon Pilot & R9/NRS Foundations Work Foundations of Collaboration Take Homes: 1. Landscape scale priority implementation 2.

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 Joint Chief’s Landscape Restoration Partnership Project FY2014 -2016

 Pilots Measuring Mon Success: U. Oregon Pilot & R9/NRS Foundations Work

 Foundations of Collaboration Take Homes:

Landscape scale priority implementation

Existing strong partnerships

Adaptive management

(science and stakeholders informing future decisions)

Communication

Multiple social/ecological benefits

(restoration economy and across border problem solving)

BEFORE AFTER

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 Monongahela NF Facts:

~ 1 million acres
High elevation with rain shadow effect (Allegheny Front)
Recreation Resources = over 1 million visitors, Wilderness within days drive ~100

million

Biodiversity Hotspot = Appalachian endemics and broad species assemblage
Headwaters of six major watersheds of the Ohio and Potomac

 Drinking water for millions from Washington DC to New Orleans)

“Where the Rivers Begin”

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Early 1900s:

Industrial logging
Fires
Weeks Act

(Eastern NFs created for watershed protection)

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“We are confronted by insurmountable opportunities.” - Pogo

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United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service September 2006

Monongahela National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan

2006 Forest Plan Revision

 Forest Goals  Forest Objectives  Forest Standards  Forest Guidelines  Monitoring and Evaluation  Land Management Prescriptions

3.0 -Vegetation Diversity
4.1 - Spruce/Hardwood

Restoration

5.0 - Designated

Wilderness

6.1 -Wildlife Habitat

Emphasis

6.2 - Backcountry

Recreation

8.0 - Special Areas

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Understory Spruce Release:
Non-commercial release

(TNC’s Ecological Restoration Team)

Mined Land Restoration
Ecological Commercial Release

(TNC Stewardship Contracting) Coming Soon!

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Acquired by USFS in late 1980s after mass extraction (coal and timber)

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2500 acres mined (>1500 acres in “arrested succession”)

non-native grasslands and conifers

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Cheat Mountain Area = high priority CASRI site (connectivity, resilience,ETS habitat improvement)

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USFS FY2015-20 Strategic Goals - Objective A:

“restore deteriorated lands and waters (such as

abandoned mine lands…”

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Short Term Goal

Native spp. to create ESH (RGS, WTF)

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Long Term Goal

Spruce ecosystem trajectory

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Methods– Site Prep

Site Prep Ripping and Knocking
Wetland Construction
Planting (contract and outreach)

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“The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for the future.”

Gifford Pinchot

go

go. restore.
store. pl

play ay

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