Project: Forest Inventory – Klickitat, Larch Mt., Ahtanum, Whatcom County, Gorge Exchange, Bogochiel, Husum, Lewis, Lower Chehalis, West Hamilton, South Loop, Middlefork, Marchwirth, Clearwater, and Coppermine
Client: Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates: February 1995 - Present
Services Provided: Since 1995, Integrated Resource Management has been involved with numerous long term vegetation monitoring projects for the State of Washington, on lands ranging from 62,000 to over a million acres. Each inventory project involves the installation of no-permanent stand exam points on a 500’ grid across the entire ownership. All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole-sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involves the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions.
Project: Willapa National Wildlife Refuge
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Dates: Winter-Spring 2005
Services Provided: IRM applied the forest inventory design developed for The Nature Conservancy for approximately 7,000 acres of forestland within the Willapa National Wildlife Refuge, in Southwestern Washington. This baseline of forest information will guide refuge managers in their pursuit of active management to accelerate late-successional forest structure.
Project: Green Mountain Inventory
Client: Clark County and City of Vancouver Parks Departments
Dates: January 2005 – March 2005
Services Provided: IRM was hired to create a cruise design and GIS map creation for the Green Mountain forest area in eastern Clark county. Installation of non-permanent inventory plots, with accompanying analysis and reports were completed. Each plot contained a variable cruise plot for pole/sawtimber, (2) fixed-radius seedling/sapling plots, a fixed-radius vegetation survey, and a 100-foot down wood transect. Major tree data components included species, height, percent crown, canopy class, percent and type of defect (including disease, rot and physical damage), and wildlife use. Report included management recommendations for commercial thinning and GIS analysis of options for access and terrain limitations.
Project: Ellsworth Creek Preserve Inventory
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Dates: Summer-Fall 2004
Services Provided: The Ellsworth Creek Preserve is a 7,000 acre coastal temperate rainforest in Southwest Washington, recently purchased by The Nature Conservancy (TNC). IRM worked closely with TNC to design a forest inventory that provides the range of natural resources data to effectively manage this forest landscape toward mature forest conditions using an active sustainable forestry approach. Field work for the forest inventory, completed in Fall 2004, was fully integrated with a range of forest models to allow growth and yield, projection of dead wood resources, visualization of stand and landscape effects of thinning, and calculation of optimum harvest schedules. The forest inventory was formatted for use with the Landscape Management System and the Stand Level Inventory Program.
Project: Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates: April 2003 – April 2005
Services Provided: Beginning in the spring of 2003, Integrated Resource Management has installed approximately 18,000 non-permanent forest inventory plots for the Oregon Department of Forestry. The Stand Level Inventory program provides valuable data that helps state foresters make science-based management decisions. IRM has collected data on the Tillamook, Clatsop and Sun Pass state forests. Overall work quality has been consistently high, with an average of 97.1% across all collected data fields. Forest stand maps are created by managers in the state office in Salem, and distributed to IRM field technicians through company project managers. Each stand contains on average 19 plots, generally in one or two cruise lines across the topography of the stand. Each plot contains a variable cruise plot for pole/sawtimber, (2) fixed-radius seedling/sapling plots, a fixed-radius vegetation survey, and a 100-foot down wood transect. Major tree data components include species, height, percent crown, canopy class, percent and type of defect (including disease, rot and physical damage), and wildlife use. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions.
Project: Howard Buford Recreation Area Forest Resource Inventory
Client: Lane County Parks
Dates: September 2003
Services Provided: IRM designed and implemented a forest and fuels inventory for the oak woodlands and conifer forests within the Howard Buford Recreation Area (Mt. Pisgah) in Lane County, Oregon. This inventory will guide prescriptions for restoration of oak savanna and woodlands within the park, which maintains one of the largest contiguous oak mosaics in the Willamette Valley. The inventory includes assessment of noxious weeds, native plant communities, and risk of overstory oak mortality.
Project: Dillacort Canyon and Logging Camp Forest Resource Inventory
Client: Columbia Land Trust
Dates: September 2003
Services Provided: IRM designed and implemented a forest and fuels inventory for the oak woodlands and conifer forests on Columbia Land Trust property in Klickitat County, Washington. This inventory will guide prescriptions for restoration of oak savanna and woodlands on this site within the Columbia River Gorge. The data collected will be fully integrated with a Geographic Information System to allow user to query and retrieve stand and fuel load information. Inventory was designed for integration into various fuels analysis applications (Fuels Management Analyst) and fire behavior and effects models including (BEHAVE and FARSITE).
Project: Stand Exam
Client: Bureau of Land Management, Eugene Resource Unit, Peter Otoole
Dates: October 2001 - December 2001
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management assisted the BLM by installing non permanent stand exam plots in the Tillamook Resource Area. All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involves the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions byre-measuring permanent research plots on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. All vegetation on each point is was measured, including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involved the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions.
Project: Stand Exam
Client: Bureau of Land Management, Tillamook Resource Unit, Yuri Yoshida
Dates: September 2001 - December 2001
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management assisted the BLM by installing non permanent stand exam plots in the Tillamook Resource Area. All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involves the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions by re-measuring permanent research plots on the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest. All vegetation on each point is was measured, including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involved the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions.
Project: Stand Exam
Client: Olympic National Forest, Lori Houghton
Dates: September 2001 - February 2002
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management assisted the ONF by installing non permanent stand exam plots on the Quinault and Pacific Ranger districts. All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags. Data collected includes species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. Each inventory involved the use of a variable radius plot for pole and sawtimber, combined with fixed radius and line transect for the other vegetation and biotic components of the inventory. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and will assist in the consistent management of the forest given the changing environmental and resource conditions.
Project: Riparian Vegetation Surveys
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry, Dan Clough
Date: August 2001 – October 2001
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management assisted the ODF by installing strip plots in riparian areas on the Elliott State Forest near Coos Bay Oregon. The data will be used to characterize current riparian conditions and will be used as a basis to model coarse woody debris (CWD) recruitment.
Project: Vegetation Re-measurement
Client: Willamette National Forest, Amelia Sorseth
Date: April 2001 – September 2001
Services Provided: In the early 1990s the Willamette National Forest implemented a groundbreaking research project to determine if different thinning, underplanting, and snag creation treatments could accelerate development of old-growth characteristics in young managed forests. Integrated Resource Management completed the 2001 re-measurement contract for the Willamette National Forest. Plot work included tree and snag measurement, understory species identification (planar intercept, seedling/sapling line transect and daubenmire microplot, and overstory canopy cover estimates.
Project: Riparian Permanent Plots
Client: Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission, Dave Schuett-Hames
Date: January 2001 - April 2001
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management assisted the NWIFC by installing permanent strip plots along streams on the Olympic Peninsula, Washington. The data will be used to characterize current riparian conditions and ascertain the effectiveness of changes in the current forest practices rules.
Project: EENW Timber Cruise and Appraisal
Client: EENW Investment Inc. Portland, OR
Date: January 2001
Services Provided: Completed timberland appraisal on 3,000-acre parcel in Lincoln County, Oregon. Integrated Resource Management created ortho-rectified photos, developed GIS layers of stand types, roads and resource buffers. A forest inventory was designed and completed using FPS. Integrated Resource Management developed a harvest schedule programmed to maximize present net value in FPS to value timberland resources.
Project: Forest Projection System
Client: Quinault Indian Nation
Dates: November 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management was retained by the QIN to conduct a Forest Projection System inventory on tribal lands on the Olympic Peninsula. Integrated Resource Management developed a custom data collection program and MS-Access database application to facilitate data collection and analysis for the tribal forestry technicians and foresters.
Project: Forest Appraisal for Bolte Tract
Client: Bolte Tract Philomath, OR
Date: November 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a timber cruise and timberland appraisal on 250-acre tract in Benton County, Oregon.
Project: Rocking C Ranch Timber Cruise and Appraisal - Riparian Permanent Plots
Client: Rocking C Ranch, LLC Drain, OR
Date: October - November 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management conducted a stumpage appraisal for a 7,000 acre private ownership south of Eugene, Oregon. This project involved stand typing, GIS, cruising, and appraisal services.
Project: Regeneration Stocking Survey
Client: Afognak Native Corporation, Kodiak, AK, Steve McMahon
Dates: May-June 2000 & October 2001
Services Provided: IRM designed and implemented a stocking survey program for the ANC. A customized data collection software program and Access Database application was created to facilitate in data collection and analysis.
Project: Forest Appraisal for Berg from Forest
Client: Helen Berg Corvallis, OR
Date: April 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a timber cruise and timberland appraisal on 120 acre tract in Benton County, Oregon.
Project: South Park Planned Unit Development, Eugene, OR
Client: Martin and Leslie Beverly, South Park Associates
Dates: October 1999
Services Provided: IRM completed a natural resource inventory for a residential development to determine areas most suitable for open space and prioritized areas for protection of unique habitat features.
Project: Deer Creek Snag Inventory
Client: Malheur National Forest Sub-contractor to DEA, Inc. Karen Haines, MNF
Date: October 1999
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management conducted a snag inventory for the Prairie City Ranger District of the Malheur National Forest. Information on dead trees was recorded using variable radius plots. The data collected was analyzed as part of the Deer Creek Watershed Assessment.
Project: Upper River Inventory
Client: Menasha Corporation Land & Timber Division, Coos Bay, OR
Date: June 1999 - August 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management designed and implemented a Forest Projection System inventory on 30,000 acres of Menasha timberland near Coos Bay, Oregon. The inventory design included the collection of habitat data. Integrated Resource Management designed a data collection program for data recorders. A field procedures manual was also prepared to facilitate re-measurement.
Project: Timber Cruise and Traverse
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry, Alan Krenz, Coos Bay, OR
Date: February - August 1999
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management was retained by the ODF to grade cruise and traverse their 1999 Timber Sales on the Elliot State Forest. The stands were cruised using a variable plot design and analyzed using Atterbury’s Super Ace program. Habitat data was also collected at each plot. The timber sale area boundaries were traversed using a Laser and the traverse data analyzed using Traverse PC. A final report was prepared for the State compiling the data collected.
Project: Current Vegetation Survey
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry Dave Enck
Date: January1999 - June 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management was retained by the ODF to install over 400 permanent forest inventory plots on all State lands. Similar to the USFS CVS design, the ODF-CVS requires the installation of the Sample Points using real-time GPS. All vegetation was measured including seedlings, pole, saw, and old growth timber, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types, and snags.
Project: 318 Alternative Volume Cruising
Client: Willamette National Forest
Dates: February - August 1996
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management performed an old growth grade cruise on the Willamette National Forest in Oregon. The USDA Forest Service retained Integrated Resource Management and the buyers of 318 Salvage Rider Sales to provide a third party unbiased cruise of alternative volume for unloggable units sold in 1989 on the Siuslaw NF.
Project: 318 Alternative Volume Cruising
Client: Siuslaw National Forest Janet Paul
Date: February - August 1996
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management was involved in an old growth grade cruise on the Siuslaw National Forest in Oregon. Integrated Resource Management was retained by the USDA Forest Service and the buyers of 318 Salvage Rider Sales to provide a third party unbiased cruise of units sold in 1989. Alternative volume of similar quantity and quality will be found on other National Forest where there are more limited problems with endangered species. This project is the result of a mediated agreement between the Secretary of Agriculture and the buyers of the timber sales.
Project: Current Vegetation Survey - Forest Vegetation Inventory
Client: Mt. Baker -Snoqualimie, Olympic and Willamette National Forests Gerald Foster, Willamette NF
Dates: January 1995 - December 1996
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a long term monitoring project for three national forests in Washington and Oregon. The Current Vegetation Survey involved the establishment, referencing and the data collection on over 400 permanent 1-hectare sized vegetation inventory points randomly placed across each of the National Forests. Virtually all vegetation on the hectare was measured including seedlings, pole -sawtimber-oldgrowth, indicator species, plant associations, down and dead woody material, cover types and snags. Data collected included species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. The inventory points will be re-measured every 3 to 5 years. Points were established in roaded and cut over areas as well as remote locations in designated wilderness. Analysis of the data will reveal how the forest, at the landscape level, is changing over time, and assist managers in the tailoring of the Forest Plan to changing environmental and resource conditions.
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