Transcript Roundtable Wildlife Meeting 3 Outcomes

Meeting Location: USFS RO, 740 Simms St. Golden, Cargill Room (1st floor, make left after security desk, go to end of hall, make
another left, room will be on your left, it may say “Mail Room” outside).
Facility Contact: Rick Truex, USFS; please be prepared to show ID at security desk.
Landscape Restoration Team—
Wildlife Sub-Team
Meeting #3
Tuesday, December 18, 2012, 10:00 – 3:00pm
Facilitated by:
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Wildlife Team Agenda—Tues 12/18/12
Topics
Timing
1.
Introductions / ice breaker; review purpose of meeting and today’s agenda (Lynne & Rick)
10:00 – 10:15
2.
Project outline: Review / revise team goals, deliverables, scope, and timeline (Rick)
10:15 – 10:45
3.
CFLR proposal background: “what restoration is, expected vegetation trends, and wildlife monitoring
intentions” (Lynne, for Hal)
10:45 – 11:15
4.
Key Considerations: Reiterate and discuss key wildlife monitoring considerations (e.g. spatial and temporal
scales; ecological, political, and economic considerations; species functional roles; ability to monitor; rigor
and cost effectiveness; etc.)
11:15 – 11:50
5.
Break
11:50 – 12:20
6.
Project High Level Work Plan: Revisit draft workflow, modify as needed
1. What should the team’s work streams be? During meetings vs. between meetings?
2. Discuss ‘check-ins’ with LR team, Round Table, and others to assure collaborative process
12:20 – 1:40
7.
Team Roles and capacities: Team skills assessment and initial assignments
1. What skills and experiences to team members bring to this effort?
2. How much time can each team member contribute to this effort?
3. Who should take the lead on which work streams?
4. Who else should be included in this project as team members, advisors, or interviewees?
1:40 – 2:30
8.
Next steps: Plan team calendar, January agenda, note taking needs, and other logistics and next steps
2:30 – 3:00
Meeting Location: USFS RO, 740 Simms St. Golden, Cargill Room (1st floor, make left after security desk, go to end of hall, make
another left, room will be on your left, it may say “Mail Room” outside).
Facility Contact: Rick Truex, USFS; please be prepared to show ID at security desk.
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Roundtable Wildlife Team—Contacts
Full Name
Gali Beh
Organization
Division
Beh Management
Consulting, Inc.
Title
Front Range
Roundtable
Facilitator
Address
City
637-B South
Broadway, #134 Boulder
State
CO
Rocky Mountain Geographical
Jenny Briggs US Geological Survey Science Center
Research Ecologist DFC Building 810 Lakewood CO
Montane/Forest
4255 Sinton
Colorado Division of
Colorado
Habitat
Road
Casey Cooley Parks and Wildlife
Springs CO
Coordinator
Arapaho and Roosevelt
2150 Centre
National Forests and Pawnee Forest Wildlife
Avenue, Building Fort
Lynne Deibel US Forest Service, ARP National Grassland
Biologist
E
Collins
CO
Jonas
Natural Resources
Feinstein
Conservation Service
State Forester
DFC Building 56 Lakewood CO
Paula
Fornwalt
USFS Rocky Mountain Rocky Mountain Research
Research Station
Station
240 West
Research Ecologist Prospect Road
Fort
Collins
CO
Postal
Work Phone Cell Phone
Code
Email1
Attende Attende
Membership
d 111312d 121812
type
Meeting Meeting
80305
gali@behconsultin
g.com
Facilitator
Yes
Yes
80225
[email protected]
Core
Yes
Yes
80907
Casey.Cooley@sta
te.co.us
Core
Yes
Yes
Co-Leader
Yes
Yes
Advisor
Yes
No
Advisor
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
80526
80225
[email protected]
jonas.feinstein@c
o.usda.gov
80526
[email protected].
us
Steve
Germaine
2150 Centre Ave, Fort
US Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center
USGGS Ecologist Bldg C
Collins
CO
80525
Arapaho and Roosevelt
2150 Centre
National Forests and Pawnee Ecosystems Group Avenue, Building Fort
Hal Gibbs
US Forest Service, ARP National Grassland
Leader
E
Collins
CO
80526
Front Range
Beh Management
Roundtable
637-B South
Terra Lenihan Consulting, Inc.
Coordinator
Broadway, #134 Boulder CO
80305
Colorado State
Fish, Wildlife, and
Liba Pejchar University
Conservation Biology Dept. Assistant Professor
US Forest Service,
601 S. Weber
Colorado
Felix QuesadaPSICC
Pikes Peak Ranger District
Wildlife Biologist Street
Springs CO
80903
Regional
Claudia
US Forest ServiceVegetation
Regan
Region 2
Region 2
Ecologist
740 Simms
Golden CO
80401
Richard (Rick)
Regional Wildlife
Truex
US Forest Service
Region 2
Ecologist
740 Simms
Golden CO
80401
Pike & San Isabel National
Forests, Cimarron &
Janelle
US Forest Service,
2840 Kachina
Comanche National
Valladares PSICC
Drive
Pueblo CO
81008
Grasslands
Pike-San Isabel National
Mike Welker US Forest Service
Forests
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[email protected]
Core
terra@behconsulti Note taker /
ng.com
Coordinator No
liba.pejchar@colos
tate.edu
Advisor
No
[email protected]
s
Core
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
[email protected]
Core
Yes
Phone
[email protected]
Co-Leader
Yes
Yes
Core
Yes
No
Core
Yes
No
[email protected]
.us
[email protected].
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Roundtable Wildlife Team—Project Outline
Team
Roundtable
Wildlife Team
Mission
Timeline
Team Launched
Nov. 13, 2012;
will complete
work by
February of
2014.
Goals
1. Identify primary and secondary species for monitoring that meet CFLRP and FS needs
2. Develop hypothesized species response (≈ population trends) for each 1° and 2° species
3. Explicitly integrate spatial and temporal scales in species selection and sampling approach
4. Establish range of monitoring options that encompass cost and rigor spectrums as needed
5. Identify field sampling protocols for selected species
6. Describe potential analytical methods
7. Identify opportunities for collaborating entities to contribute to monitoring implementation
TBD
Deliverables
A final report building from existing CFLR
monitoring plan and including:
1. Overview of field protocols, sampling
approaches, and potential analytical
approaches
2. Options: balancing rigorous monitoring
of 1° species and casual monitoring of 2°
species
3. Wildlife Team’s recommendations:
based on funding, rigor, public interest
Scope
1. Focus: past efforts have focused on vegetation structure and assumptions that if we do good things for structure, the wildlife will benefit. This effort will focus on the need for
wildlife monitoring, informed by but not dependent upon desired conditions for vegetation
2. Species: Open to including any species; will consult list of species from 2011 CFLR Monitoring Plan but we will not be limited by the past plan
3. Scale: Will include both landscape scale and site scale considerations in recommending monitoring methods and estimating expected outcomes; we will need to define “landscape”
as well, possibly by species (will refer to language developed by other related efforts to define restoration and desired conditions) – Rick to edit
4. Methods: Will consider the best, most effective, and efficient monitoring methods; will not be constrained by the USFS’s Common Stand Exam or currently available funding
Why this / why now?
1. In the past, CFLR monitoring has focused on vegetation structure with the assumption that if we do what is right for the forest, then we’re doing what is right for
the wildlife. We need to test this assumption to see if it is true. Monitoring wildlife is the only way to know if this assumption is correct. Sometimes there are
struggles between fuels reduction for fire risk mitigation and restoration for habitats for species. The impact of this struggle is that sometimes forest planners
want to pick up every piece of litter and duff to reduce fire risk but this does not restore wildlife habitats. Downed woody debris plays an important role for
wildlife habitat restoration. Treatments may increase forage for elk but they may reduce forage for songbirds, so we need to decide for which species we’re
restoring habitats and what impacts we expect forest restoration to have on them.
2. Wildlife monitoring has historically been de-prioritized in USFS budgets. It’s costly and difficult. There is not as much public demand for this as for other resource
objectives. Statutes are not clear on what is required to monitor populations in a rigorous manner. It will be a cultural shift for the USFS to start focusing on
wildlife monitoring as well as vegetation monitoring. Few groups have spent time thinking these issues through. The USFS has always reacted to legal suits rather
than be proactive to do the hard thinking on if and how to do wildlife monitoring.
3. The roundtable wants to monitor wildlife use pre- and post-treatment to learn if what we’re doing has any beneficial or detrimental effects to wildlife. A team of
representative stakeholders is needed to arrive at the compromises necessary to do wildlife monitoring effectively and cost-efficiently.
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Roundtable Wildlife Team—DRAFT High Level Work Plan
Roundtable Quarterly
meeting: 11/30/12
Roundtable Quarterly
meeting: 3/8/13
Nov
2012
Dec
Jan 2013
Revise
proposed team
goals,
deliverables,
timeframe,
scope (RT)
Agree on /
finalize team
goals,
deliverables,
timeframe,
scope
Check in with prior
effort leaders to learn
their methods for
species list; also get
sources (Craig, Tonya,
Ken, Janelle) (LD)
Summarize
from CFLR
proposal: what
restoration is,
expected
vegetation
trends, and
wildlife
monitoring
intentions (HG)
– need to post
(TL)
Make list of
criteria for how
to prioritize
species for
monitoring
(RT)
Create spreadsheet
matrix with criteria and
species (RT)
Schedule
calendar for
team (GB)
Check in with
Sara on team
composition
(LD)
Check in with
Craig & Leslie
on capacity (JB)
Send team
existing list of
Front Range
Lower & Upper
Montane
species (CC)
Ask CDPW’s
Kenny Kamire,
USFS Denny
Bohan) what
other fish
species to add
to list (CC)
Ask Mike
Welker about
importance of
including fish
(FQ)
Review Casey’s list and
bring to 1/22 mtg
additional species to
consider adding:
reptiles (LC),
amphibians (LD); fish
(JV), birds (CC),
mammals (JB),
pollinators CC), inverts
(FQ)
Propose additional
species to add to list
Start rating each
species by criteria
(spreadsheet), add
descriptive
information; divvy up
further research to fill
gaps
Feb
Do research to
fill in gaps
from criteria
spreadsheet
(e.g., Identify
monitoring
efforts already
underway)
Review new
research and
complete
filling in
matrix of
species and
criteria; try to
filter species
to smaller list
that meet the
most criteria
(or justified
for single
purpose);
begin
discussing
spatial and
temporal
scales and
which species
need what
type of
monitoring
Mar
Roundtable Quarterly
meeting: 5/31/13
Apr
MayJune
July-Aug
Collect and review existing data and sampling methods on remaining
list of species (interview experts, conduct literature search as needed)
Develop
hypothesize
d population
response to
CFLRP mgmt
identify
potential
stressors that
may influence
population
trends
Share draft
deliverables
with LR team on
4/10
Take stock; try
to synthesize
findings to
identify
potential 1°
and 2°species
for monitoring
(try to cut list
again)
Sep-Oct
Nov-Dec
Summarize costs / benefits of
sampling effort for 1° species
Conduct
power
analysis to
establish
sampling
required to
meet
objectives
Jan-Feb
2014
Make
recommendati
ons to LR
team, with
rationale…
Seek more funding or capacity to conduct research
Between meetings
During meetings
Completed
On track
Needs attention
Tentative
Make list of experts to
ask for broad (early) or
specific (later) help
Present plan to LR team
on 1/9 (RT+ CC)
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Front Range Roundtable, LR & Wildlife Team
Calendar
Team
LR
Event
LR Mtg 27
Location
Location / Call Details
Date
Time
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, January 22, 2013 (3rd
Tuesday)
10 am -3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 28
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Thursday, February 21, 2013
10 am -3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 29
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, March 1, 2013
10 am-3 pm
RT
Q1 RT Meeting
in person
JeffCo Taj Bldg, 100 Jefferson County Pkwy, Golden, CO 80419
Friday, March 15, 2013
9:30 – 3:30
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
10 am -3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 30
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, April 23, 2013 (avoid Yom
Hatzmaut)
10 am -3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 31
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
10 am -3 pm
RT
Q2 RT Meeting
in person
TBD
Friday, May 31, 2013
9:30 – 3:30
LR
LR Mtg 32
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
10 am -3 pm
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Front Range Roundtable, LR & Wildlife Team
Calendar, continued
Team
Event
Location
Location / Call Details
Date
Time
LR
LR Mtg 33
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
10 am-3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 34
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
10 am-3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 35
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
10 am-3 pm
RT
Q3 RT Meeting
in person
TBD
Friday, September 13, 2013
9:30 – 3:30
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
10 am-3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 36
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
10 am-3 pm
LR
LR Mtg 37
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
10 am-3 pm
RT
Q4 RT Meeting
in person
TBD
Friday, November 22, 2013
9:30 – 3:30
LR
LR Mtg 38
in person
USFWS offices, 134 Union Boulevard, Lakewood, 80228
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
10 am-3 pm
Wildlife
Monthly Meeting
in person
USFS Regional Office, 740 Simms St. Golden
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
10 am-3 pm
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Roundtable
Partners
Mixed teams
Roundtable Organization
Boulder County
Clear Creek County
Douglas County
Gilpin County
El Paso County
Jefferson County
Larimer County
Park County
Teller County
Front Range Fuels Treatment
Partnership (FRFTP)2
Funders
Executive Team
Coalition for the Upper South
Platte (CUSP)—Fiscal Agent)1
Colorado Watershed Wildfire Protection
Working Group (CWWPWG)2
Northern Front Range Mountain Pine
Beetle Working Group (NFRMPBWG)2
Community
Protection (CP)
Team
1.
2.
3.
National Forest Foundation
USFS-AR
USFS-Pike
CSFS
TNC
West Range Reclamation
RMRS
Denver Water
NRCS
Members
Facilitator
Biomass
Utilization and
Slash Sites (BUSS)
Team
Guests
Landscape
Restoration (LR)
Team
The Front Range Roundtable is not itself a legal entity but an informal volunteer coalition with CUSP acting as fiscal agent.
Partner groups are separate from the Front Range Roundtable and have their own organizational structures and initiatives.
Project leader and fiscal agent for the CFLRP Monitoring Teams
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Wildlife
Team
Colorado Forest
Restoration
Institute (CFRI) 3
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Front Range CFLRP
• Established under Title IV of Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
to encourage collaborative, science-based ecosystem restoration of priority
forest landscapes
• Requests of up to $40 million annually through 2019
• CFLR may pay for up to 50% of the proposed costs (applicant must
find the other 50%)
• Up to $4 million annually for any one project
• Up to 2 project per year in any one FS region
• Up to 10 projects per year nationally
• CFLR funds may only be used
• On National Forest System lands for implementation and
monitoring (not planning)
• For ecological restoration treatments only (not fire
mitigation without restoration)
• For up to 10 fiscal years on any one project
• Based on the Roundtable’s findings, in May 2010, the Arapaho-Roosevelt
and Pike-San Isabel National Forests, with the help of the Nature
Conservancy, submitted a winning proposal under the Collaborative Forest
Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) for an additional $1 million for
Front Range National Forests in FY10, $3.4 million in FY11 and $3.1 million
in FY12 (with the possibility of further allocations for up to 10 years to
implement ecological restoration on 34,000 acres of Lower Montane
forests.
• The CFLRP grant required that a CFLRP Monitoring Group be formed to
draft a monitoring plan for the use of the funds. Monitoring is to include
ecological1, social, and economic monitoring. The Front Range CFLRP
Monitoring Group was formed on October 15, 2010 to collaboratively
develop a monitoring plan for the CFLRP projects.
• In November 2011, the Roundtable formed the CFLR Monitoring Sub-Team
as part of it’s science and monitoring work (part of the Landscape
Restoration Team)
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Roundtable Definitions
Monitoring
The collection of information over time, generally on a sample basis by
measuring change in an indicator or variable, to determine the effects of
resource management treatments in the long term
Monitoring Field-checking and/or collection of data to assess whether the effects of
Effectiveness
a planned and implemented management action such as mechanical
thinning actually met the stated objectives of the action (e.g. "to reduce
fire hazard by increasing spacing between tree crowns").
Monitoring Field-checking and/or collection of data to assess whether a planned
Implementation
management action such as mechanical thinning was done when,
where, and how the plan/contract specified.
Monitoring - Response Collection of data over a period of time to evaluate a broad suite of
direct and indirect effects, intended or unintended, of a management
action on an ecosystem (e.g impacts of thinning on wildlife use of
habitat or rate of soil erosion into riparian zone)
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Team Roles and Capacities
• Some facilitation funding to be provided by CFRI (through LR team funding)
• Desire for a dedicated note taker
• Potential to include intern / volunteers for research and analysis (starting with Fall 2013 semester)
• May need someone on team with aquatics expertise (down the road)
• Gali & Terra: project management – 2 days/ month each
• Rick: co-lead; help move thinking forward on broadscale monitoring; likes math (power analysis); won’t have
much time in between meetings – 1.5 days/mo
• Felix: 2 days/mo; district / local level perspective, undersatnding of veg treatments on the ground, accustomed
to field work of doing best we can with limited resources
• Janelle?
• Mike?
• Jenny: will try to attend all meetings; has history of the Roundtable; has experience in wildlife monitoring, can
try to apply for grants; can be liaison to university partners, can contribute to literature reviews; 2 days/mo
• Terra:
• Casey: 2 – 3 days/mo; part of his job; has monitoring experience, has treatment experience, has access to
research staff;
• Lynne: co-lead; 2 – 4 days/mo; forest service monitoring experience; writing, literature search, cat herding,
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Next Steps from 12/18 Meeting
Lynne:
1. Check in with Sara on team composition (any news on USFWS involvement?)
2. Check in with prior effort leaders (Leslie, Craig, Janelle, Ken, Tonya) to learn their methods for species list; also get their sources to
post on our website
3. Review Casey’s FR species list and bring to 1/22 mtg additional species to consider adding: reptiles and amphibians
Jenny:
1. Check in with Craig & Leslie on their capacity to join the team
2. Review Casey’s FR species list and bring to 1/22 mtg additional species to consider adding: mammals
Rick:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Make list of criteria for how to prioritize species for monitoring (IN PROGRESS)
Create spreadsheet matrix with criteria and species for use at January 22 meeting
Attend LR team meeting on 1/9 (afternoon portion)
Reserve meeting rooms at the USFS RO based on new calendar for 2013
1.
2.
3.
4.
Send team existing list of Front Range Lower & Upper Montane species (DONE)
Ask CDPW’s Kenny Kamire, USFS Denny Bohan) what other fish species to add to list
Present team’s plan to the LR team at 1/9 meeting
Review Casey’s FR species list and bring to 1/22 mtg additional species to consider adding: birds and pollinators
Casey:
Felix:
1. Ask Mike Welker about importance of including fish
2. Review Casey’s FR species list and bring to 1/22 mtg additional species to consider adding: inverts (FQ)
Janelle: Review Casey’s FR species list and bring to 1/22 mtg additional species to consider adding: fish
Terra:
1. remove cell phone #’s from contact list in documents posted online
2. Post new calendar online
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