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Northwest Habitat/
Biodiversity Metrics:
Oak
Floodplain
Sagebrush/Sage Grouse
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Metrics
Oak
Sagebrush/
Sage
Grouse
Floodplain
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How habitats were selected
• Conservation priorities
• Potential for regulation (sage grouse)
• Priority for incentive programs
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Process for building metrics
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Adamus Resource Assessment
Willamette Partnership facilitation
Expert advisors met 3 times
Field testing at 5+ sites
Extensive checking of calculators
Development of user’s guides
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Practicality
Speed
Cost
Level of involvement
Capture everything
Precision
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Our Partners
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Oak
American Bird Conservancy
The Nature Conservancy
Oregon Institute for Natural
Resources
Willamette University
Kenagy Farm
Heritage Seedlings
Clackamas Soil and Water
Conservation District
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Oregon Watershed
Enhancement Board
Zena Timber
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife
Columbia Land Trust
Natural Resource Conservation
Service
Wildwood, Mahonia
McKenzie Land Trust
Greenbelt Land Trust
Lost Lagoon Farm
Polk County Conservationist
Yamhill Co. District
Conservationist
Oregon State University
Willamette Partnership
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Floodplain
American Bird Conservancy
Wildwood, Mahonia
City of Yakima Washington
Environmental Protection Agency
The Nature Conservancy
Department of Environmental Quality
U.S. Forest Service
Freshwater Trust
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Greenbelt Land Trust
Oregon Watershed Enhancement
Board
McKenzie Land Trust
Oregon Department of Fish and
Wildlife
Oregon State University
University of Oregon
Oregon Institute for Natural Resources
Clackamas Soil and Water Conservation
District
Natural Resource Conservation Service
Columbia Land Trust
Willamette University
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Zena Timber
Lost Lagoon Farm
Kenagy Farm
Willamette Partnership
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Sagebrush/sage grouse
Ecotrust
The Nature Conservancy
Natural Resources
Conservation Service
U.S.D.A. Eastern Oregon
Agricultural Research
Center
Oregon State University
Department of Rangeland
Ecology and Management
Oregon Watershed
Enhancement Board
Harney County Watershed
Council
Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife
Bureau of Land
Management
Western Governors
Association, Columbia
Plateau Project
Environmental Defense
Fund
Ecosystem Management
Research Institute
Oregon State University
Extension Service
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service
U.S. Geological Survey
Willamette Partnership
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How the metrics can be used
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Rapid assessments
Ecological baseline
Impact of development
Ecological improvement
Measure outcomes
Mitigation programs
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What the metrics measure
• Measuring Up categories
– Context
– Vegetation
– Species
– Abiotic
– Practices
– Risk
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Context
• Priority conservation area
• Connectivity
• Compatible neighbors
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Vegetation
• Amount of natural land cover
• Forest canopy
• Composition
• Invasive species
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Special status animal &
plant species
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Abiotic
• Proximity to water
• Area of site flooded
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Practices
• Feasibility of burning
• Adaptive management
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Risk
• Proximity to roads
• Influence of water diversions
• Structures and development
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Sagebrush/Sage Grouse Habitat Metric
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Sagebrush metric: In the office
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Consult with landowner
Research project site
Aerial image, map retrieval
Designation of project site boundaries
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Sagebrush metric: At the project site
• Gather transect
data
• Revise answers
as necessary
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Sagebrush metric: Back at the office
Transfer field data to calculator
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Calculator
• Excel workbook:
– Cover page
– Data entry
– Species information
– Field forms
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Sagebrush metric: Final scores
• Scores automatically calculated
• Error checks
• Score = % optimum habitat quality
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Sagebrush metric: Final scores
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Sagebrush final score vs.
sage grouse final score
• Sage grouse indicator (leks) not in
sagebrush score
• Sensitive species not in sage grouse score
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What the metrics do not do
• Provide detailed site-level
biological inventories
• Support landscape-scale
conservation planning
decisions
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Lessons learned
• Collaborative, adaptive
management
• Integrated team
approach to calculator
development
• Extensive review
• More field testing
• More time to develop
• Economies of scale
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What’s next?
• Consistent national
framework?
• Organized by plant
communities?
• Habitats, species,
or both?
• Which habitats,
species, why, and
how many?
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Benefits of a metrics framework
Cost effective
Uniformity
Easy to use
Consistent format, but flexible for
different habitats/species
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Challenges remain
• Who develops, manages suite of metrics?
• How to connect to broader scale priorities?
• How to apply across jurisdictions and
ownerships?
• Flexibility for specific ecosystems, program
needs?
• Initial and long term funding?
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Building a consistent framework
• Partnership agreement
• Reach agreement on overall structure for
habitat types
• Assemble a team – public/private
partnership
• Secure funding from multiple sources
• Identify a management structure –
outside government?
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Marketplace for Nature:
New portal in the
Conservation Registry
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Conservation Registry:
7 state portals, 12 partner portals, 100,000 projects
www.conservationregistry.org
Conservation Registry:
Home of the National Conservation Easement
Database
nced.conservationregistry.org
Conservation Registry:
Showing projects relative to priorities
nced.conservationregistry.org
Marketplace for Nature portal
marketplace.conservationregistry.o
Habitat metrics:
user’s guides & calculators
New data fields for marketplace projects
Search terms:
Biodiversity, Wetlands, Pollinators, Carbon
Project detail pages:
targeted ecosystem services, credit summary
Questions?
Defenders of Wildlife
Sara Vickerman
Defenders of Wildlife
503-697-3222
[email protected]
www.conservationregsitry.org
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Questions?
Defenders of Wildlife
Sara Vickerman
Defenders of Wildlife
503-697-3222
[email protected]
www.conservationregsitry.org
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