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Technology and Restoration: A Digital Restoration Guide

Travi vis Wool Woolley, S Sue S Sitko,

• , Neil

il C Chapman, n, and R d Rob Marshall

Background

Accelerate the pace and scale

• f forest restoration in Northern

Arizona

Planning scale - 2.4 million acre landscape Signed EIS/ROD for 586,110 acres

Components of Restoration

Environmental Analysis Layout Monitoring & Adaptive Management Planning Implementation

Implementation

Implementation Bottlenecks

Trust Economics

Implementation Bottlenecks

Trust Economics

Economics of Forest Restoration

Economics of Forest Restoration

• Issues
• Extremely low value product
• Biomass removal is required
• Monitoring at a landscape scale RAPIDLY

Layout

• Costs to USFS for laying out treatment units
• Paint/Labor
• Landscape Scale
• Designation by Prescription

(DxP) up to 75% of treatments

• Restoration Plans On the ground work?
• Silvicultural prescriptions

Implementation Planning

• Goals of ecologically

based restoration

• Diversity in forest

structure

• Groups/Openings
• Tree age diversity

Solutions

Digital Restoration Guide (DRG)

Arc Collector

• ESRI Product
• Collect spatial data in

the field on handheld devices

• TNC Mobile Monitoring

Team testing for easement monitoring

Specialist Walk throughs

Specialist Walk throughs

• Draw areas of

resource importance

• Record coordinates

for plot data

• Designate roads,

archeological sites, etc.

• Easily sharable

between specialists

Layout Solutions

• Digital Tree Marking concept
• Using Silvicultural

prescriptions

• Using Arc Collector App on

handheld tablets to digitally mark tree groups

Layout Solutions

Digital Tree Marking

• What might be gained from this technology?
• Decreased paint costs
• Increased production over paint (# acres prepared)
• Increased control over gaining desired conditions

Implementation Solutions

Implementation Solutions

Digital Tree Marking Inputs

Implementation Solutions

Digital Tree Marking Inputs

• Type of thinning per

tree group

• Deferral area
• Diameter limit
• # of trees (size focused)
• Regeneration

Implementation Solutions

Digital Tree Marking Inputs

• Type of thinning per

tree group

• Deferral area
• Diameter limit
• # of trees (size focused)
• Regeneration

Digital Restoration Guide

• Digital Walkthrough concept for more efficient

resource specialist activities

• Digital Marking of tree groups and treatment

prescriptions

• In-cab tablets for operators to use digital

marking data and track productivity

• Use of harvesting data collection for monitoring

Ongoing Projects

• Clark Task Order
• TNC/USFS
• Bob Fry Project
• TNC/AZSF/USFS
• Fort Valley
• TNC/USFS
• Flagstaff Watershed Protection Project (FWPP)
• TNC/USFS

Outcomes to Date

• Clark Task Order
• Decreased costs

$40/acre $16/acre

• Increased Productivity

8 acres/day/person 40-60 acres/day/person

Outcomes to Date

• Bob Fry Project
• Currently being cut by harvesters using Digitally Marked

prescritpions

• Tablet Data Collection
• Calculate productivity between DRG and DxP
• Operator feedback on how to better design marking

information

Accelerated Progress

• USFS is implementing DRG on 5,000 acres over

the next 6 months (Fort Valley Task Order)

• Requested a Proposal from TNC for Master

Stewardship Agreement

• Test technologies and develop economic information on

10,000 acre project area

Scale of the Problem

Scale of the Problem

Monitoring and Adaptive Management

• Harvested tree locations to provide rapid

meaningful feedback for adaptive management (TRUST!)

1. Develop capabilities to measure tree size during harvest

• 2. Combine harvest location and size

data with remote sensing data to assess post-treatment landscape

Tablet Data and LiDAR