Forest Inventory Systems

Project:  Apache Sitgreaves Stand Exams – Lakeside
Client:  USDA Forest Service – Apache Sitgreaves National Forest
Dates:  June 2010 - Ongoing
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest – Lakeside Ranger District to complete a stand exam on 241 plots.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project:  Siuslaw Monitoring Project - 2010
Client:  Cascade Pacific RC&D
Dates:  March 2010 - Ongoing
Services Provided:  For the purpose of the Fiscal Year 2009 Multi-Party Monitoring contract, IRM worked with Cascade Pacific RC&D, the National Forest Service and various stewardship groups from the Siuslaw Basin to develop and implement monitoring procedures to track stewardship contracting related activities on the forest.  This contract included organizing stewardship data into a Microsoft access database, conducting fieldtrips with stakeholders, installing photo point and stand exam plots and preparing a summary report detailing fiscal year 2009’s accomplishments.    

Project:  Cave Bear Stand Exams
Client:  Mt. Adams Resource Stewards
Dates:  November - December 2009, Ongoing
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Mt. Adams Resource Stewards to complete a stand exam on 948 plots.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project:  Apache Sitgreaves Stand Exams – Black Mesa
Client:  USDA Forest Service – Apache Sitgreaves National Forest
Dates:  June 2009, August – September 2009 - Ongoing
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest – Black Mesa Ranger District to complete a stand exam on 777 plots.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project:  Lowman Stand Exams
Client:  USDA Forest Service – Boise National Forest
Dates:  June 2009, August – September 2009, June 2010
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Boise National Forest – Lowman Ranger District to complete a stand exam on 408 plots.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project:  Siuslaw Monitoring Project - 2009
Client:  Cascade Pacific RC&D
Dates:  February 2009 – March 2010
Services Provided: For the purpose of the Fiscal Year 2008 Multi-Party Monitoring contract, IRM worked with Cascade Pacific RC&D, the National Forest Service and various stewardship groups from the Siuslaw Basin to develop and implement monitoring procedures to track stewardship contracting related activities on the forest.  This contract included organizing stewardship data into a Microsoft access database, conducting fieldtrips with stakeholders, installing photo point and stand exam plots and preparing a summary report detailing fiscal year 2008’s accomplishments.    

Project:  Bear Springs Common Stand Exams
Client:  Logging Engineering International, Inc., subcontract for Mt. Hood National Forest
Dates:  November 2009
Services Provided:  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, and current and potential/climax plant association identification, Approximately 90 plots were installed.

Project:  Republic FIT
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  November 2009
Services Provided:  During the fall of 2009 Integrated Resource Management (IRM) was hired by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to provide timber sale layout services for a proposed timber sale under the forest health program.  IRM traversed four timber sale units using resource grade GPS units, as well as installed boundary marking ribbon and timber sale signs.  In addition to layout, IRM grade cruised the four timber sale units using the SuperACE timber cruising program.  Upon completion of the field work, IRM provided the WDNR with treatment recommendations and a full cruise report.         

Project:  Usal Redwood Forest Inventory
Client:  Campbell Group Timberlands
Dates:  October 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by Campbell Group Timberlands to complete a 260 plot forest inventory in Northern California.  IRM is qualified to perform forestry work in California because of owner Marc Barnes’ being a Registered Professional Forester in California.  Cruisers were expected to collect the following data species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use.

Project:  Sue Timber Sale Layout
Client:  USDA Forest Service – Tongass National Forest
Dates:  July 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was hired by the Craig RD of the Tongass National Forest to layout out the Sue Timber Sale.  This proposed timber sale is located 17 miles SW of the town of Craig on Suemez Island.  As part of this contract IRM flagged and tagged unit boundaries, reflagged streams, laid out temporary roads, traversed unit boundaries and proposed roads, and cruised the timber, on 11 harvest units. The project involved the following logistical challenges:

• 34 miles of boat travel daily
• 12 miles of ATV travel daily
• Harvest units up to 2 miles from the end of the roads
• Steep terrain and Old Growth timber

Project:  Current Forest Inventory
Client:   Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians
Dates:   September 2008 – April 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted t update or install 138b permanent Current Forest Inventory (CFI) plots.  This inventory provides an ongoing database for Tribal foresters to monitor forest health and stand development to guide adaptive management.  The CFI plots are spread across numerous landholdings that have been acquired by the Tribe over the last three decades.  These plots are re-measured on a ten-year interval, with this being the third measurement of the initial land acquisition.

Project:  Stand Level Inventory
Client:  Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   October 2008 – April 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted to collect approximately 5,000 plots worth of data on the Tillamook state forest districts.  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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   October 2008 – April 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted to collect approximately 800 plots worth of data on the Forest Grove and Southwest Oregon state forest districts.  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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   October 2008 – March 2009
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted to collect approximately 1,000 plots worth of data on the Astoria, North Cascade, West Lane, and Western Oregon state forest districts.  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:  Little White Salmon Inventory
Client:  US Fish and Wildlife Service
Date:  January – May 2008
Services Provided: In 2007 the US Fish and Wildlife Service hired Integrated Resource Management to complete a thorough Stewardship plan for the surrounding the Willard and Little White Salmon Fish Hatcheries on the Columbia River Gorge in Washington State.  A vital aspect of a solid stewardship plan is knowing what is present on the ground.  A permanent plot inventory of trees, saplings, seedlings, vegetation, and large down wood was installed in spring of 2008 to form the foundation of the stewardship plan.  Plots consisted of a unique combination of variable radius plots, fixed area plots, and transects to obtain the most statistically reliable data.  Six photos were taken per plot (North, East, South, West, Up and Down) so that when re-measurement occurs the client will have a unique qualitative method of tracking the stands change over time.  GPS coordinates were taken in the field and were then mapped in ArcMap 9.2.  Data compilation and management was done through the Assisi Inventory software.

Project:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   December 2007- May 2008
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted to collect approximately 4,000 plots worth of data on the Tillamook state forests.  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: Forest Inventory
Client: Oregon State University – College Forests, Corvallis Oregon
Dates: March 2008 – December 2008
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management updated a long term monitoring project for Oregon State University on the College Forest. The inventory project involved the reestablishment, referencing and the data collection of over 200 permanent plots. Data collected included species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. 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.  The data collected from these plots is also the primary source of information used to develop growth models used in Western Oregon.

Project: Forest Inventory
Client: Oregon State University – College Forests, Corvallis Oregon
Dates: June 2007 – February 2008
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management updated a long term monitoring project for Oregon State University on the College Forest. The inventory project involved the reestablishment, referencing and the data collection of over 500 permanent plots. Data collected included species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. 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.  The data collected from these plots is also the primary source of information used to develop growth models used in Western Oregon.

Project:  Forest Inventory
Client:  Double E Northwest
Dates:  Fall/Winter 2007
Services Provided:  The EENW forest inventory consisted of 687 plots spread over 2,607 acres along the coast of Oregon just South of Newport.  Timber types ranged from mature spruce hemlock forests, to red alder stands, to the patches of shore pine which line Highway 101.  Measurements were taken on timber, saplings, seedlings, vegetation, and down wood, on a plot design which integrated a variable radius plot, fixed radius sub-plots, and a transect.  Plot locations are being tracked in ArcMap 9.2 for easy accommodation of stand boundary changes, and data is being managed in Assisi Inventory.

Project:  Current Stand Exam – Willamette National Forest
Client:  USDA Forest Service
Dates:  Fall 2007 – Spring 2008
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Willamette National Forests National Forest to complete a stand exam.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project:  State Lands Stand Structure
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   July 2007 – December 2007           
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by IRMRTS Joint Venture to collect approximately 1,500 plots worth of data on the Western Oregon, Western Lane, Astoria, North Cascade, and Forest Grove district forests.  Standard ODF Stand Level Inventory procedures were used and permanent plots were established. Each stand consisted of approximately 25 plots.  Plots 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 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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:   December 2006 – October 2007           
Services Provided:  IRMRTS Joint Venture was contracted to collect approximately 4,000 plots worth of data on the Tillamook state forests.  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: Campbell Group Acquisition
Client:  Roseburg Forest Products
Dates:  May 2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by Roseburg Forest Products to complete a stand inventory on Campbell Group Property.  All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole-sawtimber-old growth, grass and shrub species, habitat 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:  Beaver Creek Grade Cruise
Client:   Oregon State Parks and Recreation
Dates:  March – May 2007           
Services Provided:  Oregon Department of Parks and Recreation hired Integrated Resource Management to cruise and appraise a 323-acre ranch/forest for possible conservation easement.  Eighty-three plots were installed.  Some were grade cruise, regeneration stands were fixed-area plot cruised, and pastures were 100% cruised.  Logs were graded based on the Columbia River Log Grading and Scaling Bureau’s standards, and sorts were determined by us based on local log markets.  Young stands were grown into the future, and a dollar value was placed on each stand by pond value of sorts, minus logging , hauling, and administration costs, before taking the net present value of each stand

Project: Forest Inventory
Client: Oregon State University – College Forests, Corvallis Oregon
Dates: November 2006 – February 2007
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management updated a long term monitoring project for Oregon State University on the College Forest. The inventory project involved the reestablishment, referencing and the data collection of over 500 permanent plots. Data collected included species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. 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.  The data collected from these plots is also the primary source of information used to develop growth models used in Western Oregon.

Project: Forest Inventory
Client: Oregon State University – College Forests, Corvallis Oregon
Dates: May 2006 – November 2006
Services Provided:  Test field procedures and developed computer data collection program for future forest inventory contracts.  Provided notes and recommendations to College Forest staff in order to improve inventory procedures and methods.  Integrated Resource Management updated a long term monitoring project for Oregon State University on the College Forest. The inventory project involved the reestablishment, referencing and the data collection of over 500 permanent plots. Data collected included species, heights, growth, age, defect, damage, and condition use. 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.  The data collected from these plots is also the primary source of information used to develop growth models used in Western Oregon.

Project:  Stand Exam
Client:  National Forest Service – Malhuer National Forest
Dates:  July 2006
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Malhuer National Forest to complete a stand exam on the Malhuer National Forest.  Cruisers were expected to navigate to predetermined variable radius plots using GPS, forest inventory, current and potential/climax plant association identification, predictive fuel models, and fuel loading determination.

Project: Stand Exam
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Salem Oregon, Jim Mosley COR 503-315-5954
Dates:  May 2006 – June 2006
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management completed a monitoring project for the BLM in Oregon. The Stand Exam Survey involved the establishment, referencing and the data collection of 222 non-permanent plots located in three project areas in Western Oregon. Vegetation measured on these plots included 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. This project is one of the primary sources of information for operational intensive management planning, harvesting, monitoring, watershed assessment, wildlife habitat suitability, and stand structure classification.

Project: Forest Inventory
Client:  Roseburg Forest Products
Dates:  September-December 2005
Services Provided:   IRM was contracted by Roseburg Forest Products to complete a stand inventory on Roseburg Forest Products property.  All vegetation on each point is measured, including seedlings, pole-sawtimber-old growth, grass and shrub species, habitat 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: Current Vegetation Survey - Forest Vegetation Inventory
Client: Bureau of Land Management, Salem Oregon
Dates: March 2005 – September 2005
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management completed a long term monitoring project for the BLM in Oregon. The Current Vegetation Survey involved the establishment, referencing and the data collection on over 85 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.

Project:  Young Stand Inventory
Client: Pacific Forest Trust
Dates: May 2005           
Services Provided:  Installed 200 non-permanent plots outside of the Philomath area.  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/saw timber, (2) fixed-radius seedling/sapling plots, and a fixed-radius vegetation survey. 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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:  March-June 2006
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Oregon Department of Forestry – Astoria District to conduct stand level inventories on 3,700 plots.  The Stand Level Inventory program provides valuable data that helps state foresters make science-based management decisions.  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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:  April 2005 – September 2007
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Oregon Department of Forestry to conduct stand level inventories on 4,700 plots in Western Oregon, Western Lane, and Cascade Districts.  The Stand Level Inventory program provides valuable data that helps state foresters make science-based management decisions.  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:  Willapa National Wildlife Refuge
Client: The Nature Conservancy
Dates:  Winter-Spring 2005
Services Provided:  IRM is applying 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 – March 2005
Services Provided:  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.  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.  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, is 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 will be formatted for use with the Landscape Management System and the Stand Level Inventory Program.

Project:  Forest Inventory – Klickitat
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Summer 2004
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Stand Level Inventory
Client: Oregon Department of Forestry
Dates:  April 2003-September 2005
Services Provided:  IRM was contracted by the Oregon Department of Forestry to conduct stand level inventories on 28,000 plots throughout the Tillamook, Clatsop, and Sunpass State Forest.  The Stand Level Inventory program provides valuable data that helps state foresters make science-based management decisions.  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:  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:  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:  Stand Exam
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Eugene Resource Unit
Dates: November 2002-February 2003
Services Provided:  IRM assisted the BLM by installing non-permanent stand exam plots in the McKenzie Resource Area.  All vegetation on each plot 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 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.

Project:  Forest Inventory – Springdale
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Summer-Fall 2002
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Stand Exam
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Eugene Resource Unit
Dates:  June 2002 – September 2002
Services provided:  IRM assisted the BLM by installing non-permanent stand exam plots in the McKenzie 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

Project:  Stand Exam
Client:  Olympic National Forest
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 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:  Stand Exam
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Eugene Resource Unit
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 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:  Stand Exam
Client:  Bureau of Land Management, Tillamook Resource Unit
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 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:  Riparian Vegetation Surveys
Client:  Oregon Department of Forestry
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:  Regeneration Stocking Survey
Client:  Afognak Native Corporation, Kodiak, AK
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:  Vegetation Re-measurement
Client:  Willamette National Forest
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:  Vegetation Re-measurement
Client:  Willamette National Forest
Dates:  April 2001 – September 2001
Services provided: IRM assisted the WNF 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 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:  Forest Inventory – South Coppermine
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Spring-Fall 2001
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Forest Inventory – Clearwater
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  January 2000 – May 2001
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:   Riparian Permanent Plots
Client:  Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission
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 Portland Oregon
Dates:        Jan 2001 – March 2001
Services provided: IRM conducted a stumpage appraisal for a 3000-acre private ownership south of Newport Oregon.  This project involved stand typing, GIS, cruising, and appraisal services.

Project:  Rocking C Ranch Timber Cruise and Appraisal Riparian Permanent Plots
Client:  Rocking C Ranch, Drain Oregon
Dates:  Nov 2000 – Dec 2000
Services provided:  IRM conducted a stumpage appraisal for a 7000 acre private ownership south of Eugene Oregon.  This project involved stand typing, GIS, cruising, and appraisal services.

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:  Quinault
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:  Year 2000 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:  Current Vegetation Survey
Client:  Oregon Department of Forestry
Date:  January 1999 - June 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management has been 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:  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.
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:  Forest Inventory – Middlefork
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Fall 1999
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Forest Inventory – Marchwirth
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Spring-Fall 1999
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Timber Cruise and Traverse
Client:  Oregon Department of Forestry
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:  Forest Inventory – Hamilton
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Summer-Fall 1998
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Forest Inventory – Loop-Loop
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Summer-Fall 1998
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Forest Inventory – Chehalis
Client:  Washington Department of Natural Resources
Dates:  Winter-Spring 1998
Services Provided:  Integrated Resource Management was contacted by the Washington Department of Natural Resource to conduct a forest inventory.  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:  Current Vegetation Survey - Forest Vegetation Inventory
Client:  Mt. Baker -Snoqualimie, Olympic and Willamette National Forests, 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, 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.

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
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.