FHM Riparian Group

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FHM Riparian Group

• High Level
• Business Requirements

Inventory and Monitoring Institute USDA Forest
Service
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Riparian Indicator Resolution

• Whereas, riparian forests are recognized as
  having values disproportionate with the amount of
  area they represent to society in terms of
  healthy wildlife populations, clean water,
  valuable areas for recreation, valuable habitat
  for many life forms from plants to insects and
  fungi

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Riparian Indicator Resolution

• Whereas, FHM recognizes the current plot design
  and sampling scheme for upland forests is
  inappropriate for some riparian forest lands

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Riparian Indicator Resolution

• Whereas, FHM recognizes the current plot design
  and sampling scheme for upland forests is
  inappropriate for some Riparian Forest Lands

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Riparian Indicator Resolution

• Whereas, riparian forests are recognized as
  having values disproportionate with the amount of
  area they represent to society in terms of
  healthy wildlife populations, clean water,
  valuable areas for recreation, valuable habitat
  for many life forms from plants to insects and
  fungi,

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Riparian Indicator Resolution

• Whereas, riparian forests cross multiple
  ownerships and FHM is comprised of partners with
  responsibilities that cross all ownerships,
• Be it resolved that the FHM program manager
  authorizes the establishment of a team of people
  and set aside an appropriate amount of funds for
  travel money (for participants not in FHM) to
  convene a workshop(s), with experts from around
  the country.

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PURPOSE

•  To review the P2 and P3 plots in the database
  that are associated with riparian zones to
  quantify how much data we already have in
  riparian areas
• To review how many additional plots we would
  have if we ignored the minimum of 120 definition
  for determining what is forest

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PURPOSE

•  Review how well or poorly the current plot
  design works in riparian zones
• Review the current indicators and identify others
  that might be measured on the plot. Consider the
  adequacy of the sample if the P2 plots in
  riparian zones had soil, veg, lichens and other
  indicators collected on them.

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Team Members

• Michelle Frank
• USFS
• Tod Bohle
• Nature Conservancy
• Bill Smith
• USFS Statistician
• Steve Brady
• NRCS, Statistician

• John Epifanio
• USFS,National Fisheries Program
• Jeannie Chambers
• USFS, RMRS
• Mary Manning
• USFS R-1

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Team Members

• Florence Peterson
• USFS Vegetation Indicator
• John Potyondy
• Hydrologist, RMRS
•  Thomas Schmidt
• USFS, NCRS, FIA

• Tony Olsen
• EPA, Statistician
• Patrice Janiga
• USFS, IMI
• Denise Wickwar
• USFS, IMI

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TASK LIST

• Riparian Definition
• List of Related Programs Literature Review
• Review of P2 P3 Plots
• Review Current Measurements ID others
• Compose List of Potential Riparian Indicators

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Riparian areas are three-dimensional eco-tones of
  interaction that include terrestrial and aquatic
  ecosystems that extend into the groundwater, up
  above the canopy, outward across the floodplain,
  up the near-slopes that drain to the water,
  laterally into the terrestrial ecosystem, and
  along the water course at a variable width.

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Compiled Literature Review and Related Programs
  are both on the website
• http//www.fs.fed.us/institute/fhm_riparian/

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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Current Plot Measurements Reviewed
• Additional Measurements Suggested

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UPCOMING WORK

• Work with States to Overlay P2, P3 plots on
  Available State Riparian Coverages
• Locate states that have full Photography Coverage
  so that assessment of Riparian Areas can be made
• Compile Riparian Area map of Test Areas
  Representing different ecoregions

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UPCOMING WORK

• Review how well the current plot design works in
  riparian zones
• Identify alternative sampling methods to the grid
  including relaxing the definition of forest
• Evaluate alternative approaches against a test
  data set

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