Project: Carnine Oak Restoration
Client: Doug and Linda Carnine
Date: Ongoing
Services Provided: The Carnine family are deeply committed to sustaining biological diversity on private lands. They have recently taken a very active role in this movement by purchasing over 600 acres of cutover lands in the Southern Willamette Valley and are restoring them in a mosaic of multi-species forests (land that will be available in the future to generate modest timber harvest under strict FSC management guidelines) and open native prairies and oak and pine savannas (for the benefit of many “open habitat” species at risk). IRM worked on stewardship plans for these three properties and pursuing funding to aid in restoration with help from the Forest Restoration Partnership. 2004 was a busy year on the Carnine’s properties. LightfootTM was used to control major blackberry populations. These areas were sprayed and planted with western redcedar and valley pine. Old slash piles were burned, roads brushed to improve access for fire control restoration activities. In 2005 botanical surveys will be completed to identify remnant and rare plant populations. A major oak and pine savanna restoration effort is planned for 05-06 using thinning, noxious weed control and re-establishment of native grasses and forbs. Funding for harvest of Douglas-fir trees that are choking the savanna will help subsidizes other treatments.
Project: Fuels Reduction and Oak Restoration
Client: Rowena Wilds Landowners
Dates: Winter 2004
Services Provided: Rowena Wilds is a planned rural housing development that was designed around strict ecological covenants. The 200 acre community located at the eastern edge of the Columbia Gorge, southeast of Mosier, Oregon contains high-quality remnant pine and oak habitats that have been encroached with fir and oak regeneration. IRM worked closely with Rowena Wilds’ landowners to design forest restoration prescriptions to reduce forest fuels and restore savanna habitats. Funding was provided by a fuel reduction grants from the Oregon Department of Forestry. IRM designed silvicultural prescriptions that achieved the fuel reduction standards required by the state, while enhancing oak habitat, and preserving the visual qualities of the forest using a technique called “mosaic thinning”. Restorative treatments were tailored to the specific needs of each landowner to maintain a desired aesthetic. IRM completed thinnings, removed slash and re-seeded burn piles.
Project: Big Island Restoration
Client: McKenzie River Trust
Date: Summer 2004
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Big Island on the McKenzie River in the Southern Willamette Valley. IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees. IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.
Project: Green Island Restoration
Client: McKenzie River Trust
Date: Summer 2004
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management worked with the McKenzie River Trust (MRT) to restore Green Island on the Willamette River in the Southern Willamette Valley. IRM used the LightfootTM to reduce blackberry populations in the understory of riparian gallery forests and in old farm fields, which will be planted with trees. IRM also treated Japanese knotweed (a highly invasive noxious weed) patches with an innovative herbicide injections system that eliminates pesticide drift by directing herbicide in a uniform dose directly into the stem of the plant.
Project: Rocky Boys Tree / Fuels Inventory
Client: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Rocky Mountain Region, Dan Rasmussen
Dates: September – October 2004
Services Provided: The Rocky Boys Indian Reservation is located in the Bear Paw mountain range in north-central Montana. IRM worked in conjunction with the BIA to create a forest fuels monitoring system. This system was designed using ArcView GIS to map planned plot locations across a large area of the reservation, in many forest types and stand conditions. These non-permanent plots included the use of a basal area factor and corresponding tree data (species, height, dbh, defect, percent crown) and the installation of a non-permanent fuel transect using Brown’s protocol. Data was collected using Data Plus Professional software and a custom-built application designed by IRM for ease of interpretation by the FireMon national monitoring system. Managers are using the FireMon data to target fire prone forested areas with fuels reduction treatments.
Project: Klickitat Landscape Level Fuels Reduction and Oak Restoration Project
Client: Columbia Land Trust, Vancouver, WA
Dates: Summer-Fall 2004
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management restored oak savannas and woodlands in the Klickitat River Canyon, an area that contains the largest concentration of these habitats in Washington State. Activities included thinning stands to remove conifers and over-stocked oak, use of goats and brush mowing to reduce shrub cover, and native seeding to re-establish bunchgrass communities. Silvicultural prescriptions were based on reducing extreme fire behavior and associated fire effects, increasing mast production and tree vigor, and habitat needs of the western grey squirrel. A combination of low-impact skid steer (LightfootTM) with a sheer, and hand crews were used during thinning operations.
Project: Metolius Preserve Fuels Assessment, Fire Behavior Analysis and Fuel Reduction Prescriptions
Client: Deschutes Basin Land Trust
Dates: April 2004
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management designed a fuels inventory system for the Deschutes Basin Land Trust in Central Oregon. The fuels inventory was compiled using Fuels Management Analyst (FMA), a comprehensive fire management tool that determines fuels loading, crown mass and crown fire behavior. The fuels and associated inventory was used to analyze potential fire effects and behavior using BEHAVE and FMA under several management scenarios. Silvicultural prescriptions to reduce fire behavior and effects within desired parameters were developed. These prescriptions were integrated into the Metolius Preserve Forest Stewardship plan that IRM completed in August of 2004.
Project: Jackson County Landowners Fuels Reduction
Client: Jackson County Landowners
Dates: 2004
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management worked with numerous private landowners to reduce hazardous fuels around homes and other important structures using the LightfootTM system. These sites are former pine and oak woodlands that have reverted to brush dominated communities due to past timber harvesting. Prescriptions involved mowing heavy brush, seeding with native grasses and reforesting the sites.
Project: Stump Springs Fuel Reduction Silvicultural Prescriptions
Client: Dixie National Forest
Dates: July 2003
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management prepared silvicultural prescriptions in support of the Stump Springs Fuel Reduction Project Environmental Assessment it completed for the Escalante Ranger District. Prescriptions included specific targets for stand density and surface fuel reduction using prescribed fire in meadow, pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine and mixed conifer vegetation communities. Mitigation measures to address resource concerns including cryptobiotic soils, goshawk nests and riparian areas were synthesized in the prescriptions.
Project: Jicarilla-Apache Reservation Urban-Rural Interface Fuels Reduction
Client: Apache Indian Reservation
Dates: June 2003-August 2003
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management completed a fuels reduction project for the Jicarilla Tribe in using its LightfootTM rubber tracked skid steer and feller-sheer system.
Project: Jicarilla-Apache Tree / Fuels Inventory
Client: Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Dulce NM, Randy Zimmer
Dates: May-July 2003, June 2004
Services Provided: The Jicarilla-Apache Indian Reservation is located at the southern tip of the San Juan mountain range in north-central New Mexico. IRM worked in conjunction with the BIA to create a forest fuels monitoring system. This system was designed using ArcView GIS to map planned plot locations across a forested mesas of the reservation, in varying forest types and stand conditions. These non-permanent plots included the use of a basal area factor and corresponding tree data (species, height, dbh, defect, percent crown) and the installation of a non-permanent fuel transect using Brown’s protocol. Data was collected using Data Plus Professional software and a custom-built application designed by IRM for ease of interpretation by the FireMon national monitoring system. Managers are using the FireMon data to target fire prone forested areas with fuels reduction treatments
Project: Lagunas Bonitas Forest Stewardship Plan and Integrated Fuels Reduction Plan
Client: Trust in Public Lands, NM State Forestry
Dates: November 2002 – July 2003
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management developed a forest stewardship plan for the Lagunas Bonitas Ranch in Northern New Mexico. The ranch is the state of New Mexico’s pilot partnership with the USFS’s Forest Legacy Program. The plan focused on restoration of range and forest ecosystems and development of compatible grazing and forest harvest systems. A key element of the plan was to devise silvicultural prescriptions for restoration of ponderosa pine and mixed conifer forests. Forests across the ranch have been highly degraded due to fire suppression and past timber harvests.
Project: Pistol River Watershed Assessment, Siskiyou National Forest
Client: Sub-contractor to David Evans and Associates, per Region 6 Professional Services Contract
Dates: November 2001 - February 2002
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management prepared the Vegetation Analysis Section of the Pistol River Watershed Assessment. Our analysis synthesized historic and current vegetation data, historic range of variability analyses, fuel and fire severity models, threatened and endangered species recovery plans, and other keystone indicator species management mandates into a comprehensive forest restoration plan. Recommendations included silvicultural prescriptions designed to restore key ecosystem processes and functions at both stand and landscape levels.
Project: Malheur Watershed Assessment, Malheur National Forest
Client: Sub-contractor to David Evans and Associates, per Region 6 Services Contract, Bill Gamble, Malhuer NF
Date: November 1999 - March 2000
Services Provided: Integrated Resource Management prepared the Vegetation Analysis Section of the Malheur River Headwaters Watershed Assessment. Our analysis synthesized historic and current vegetation data, historic range of variability analyses, fuel and fire severity models, threatened and endangered species recovery plans, and other keystone indicator species management mandates into a comprehensive forest restoration plan. Recommendations included silvicultural prescriptions designed to restore key ecosystem processes and functions at both stand and landscape levels. Integrated Resource Management used the Stand Visualization System (SVS) to project stand development pathways under different management scenarios for illustrative purposes in the document.
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