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Technology and Restoration: A Digital Restoration Guide Travi vis Wool Woolley, S Sue S Sitko, o, Neil il C Chapman, n, and R d Rob Marshall

Background Accelerate the pace and scale of forest restoration in Northern Arizona Planning scale - 2.4 million acre landscape Signed EIS/ROD for 586,110 acres

Components of Restoration Environmental Analysis Monitoring & Adaptive Planning Management Implementation Layout

Implementation

Implementation Bottlenecks Economics Trust

Implementation Bottlenecks Economics Trust

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

Implementation Planning • Goals of ecologically based restoration • Diversity in forest structure • Groups/Openings • Tree age diversity • Restoration Plans On the ground work? • Silvicultural prescriptions

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