Northwest Forest Plan - Public Involvement: 10-Year Monitoring Public Forum

A two-day science conference in Portland, Oregon during April, 2005 provided a venue for the discussion of monitoring and research results. Conference goals were to (1) develop awareness and understanding of science information from the Northwest Forest Plan monitoring programs, (2) describe advances in the state of knowledge over the last decade, and (3) explore policy and management implications of these findings. The conference’s audience of over 500 participants included policymakers, land managers, and resource specialists from federal agencies; and people from universities, state agencies, nongovernmental organizations and interested publics.

This collection of reports on the 10-year anniversary of the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) was the first comprehensive analysis and interpretation of monitoring data since the 1994 Record of Decision. These reports attempt to answer questions about the effectiveness of the Plan from new monitoring and research results.

Presentations

Presenter	Presentation / File Format
Moderator: Lisa Freedman, US Forest Service, Region 6	Plenary Session
Tom Quigley - US Forest Service, PNW Station	Welcome - Adobe .PDF File - 328 kB
Sharon Heywood - Shasta-Trinity National Forest	Complexity of the Northwest Forest Plan Within Social, Economic and Ecological Systems - Adobe .PDF File - 1.3 MB
Jon Martin - US Forest Service, Region 6	Northwest Forest Plan - The First Ten Years (1994-2003): Monitoring Program Overview - Adobe .PDF File - 2.9 MB
Moderator: Lisa Freedman, US Forest Service, Region 6	Status and Trend Reports
Kirsten Gallo - Bureau of Land Management Oregon Washington	Preliminary Assessment of the Condition of Watersheds under the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 787 kB
Melinda Moeur - US Forest Service Region 6	Status and Trends of Late-successional and Old Forest - Adobe .PDF File - 9 MB
Joe Lint - Bureau of Land Management Oregon	Overview of Findings from Monitoring the Status and Trend of Northern Spotted Owl Populations and Habitat for the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 4 MB
Mark Huff - Fish and Wildlife Service	Population Status and Habitat Modeling of Marbled Murrelet - PowerPoint .ppt File - 30 MB
Susan Charnley - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Northwest Forest Plan: The First Ten Years Socioeconomic Monitoring Key Findings - Adobe .PDF File - 5.8 MB
Claudia Stuart - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Effectiveness of the Federal-tribal Relationship: Implications for Adaptive Management - Adobe .PDF File - 1 MB
Craig Palmer - University of Nevada Las Vegas	Implementation Monitoring, Accomplishments and Compliance with Plan Requirements - Adobe .PDF File - 1.8 MB
Kirsten Gallo - Bureau of Land Management Oregon Washington	Watershed Condition Under the Northwest Forest Plan Changes by Land Use Allocation - Adobe .PDF File - 1.9 MB
Sean Gordon - Oregon State University	Decision Support Models Part I: How They Work for Watershed Condition - Adobe .PDF File - 1.7 MB
Warren Cohen - US Forest Service, PNW Research	Mapping Vegetation Across the Northwest Forest Plan Integrating Two Remote Sensing Approaches - Adobe .PDF File - 1 MB
Sean P. Healey - US Forest Service, PNW Research	Forest harvest Trends on Federal Lands Preceding, Following the Start of the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 1.5 MB
Sherri L. Miller - US Forest Service, PSW Research	At-sea Monitoring of Marbled Murrelet Population Status Trends in the Northwest Forest Plan area. - Adobe .PDF File - 766 kB
Ellen Donoghue - US Forest Service, PNW Research	Socioeconomic Change in Northwest Forest Plan Communities - Adobe .PDF File - 6.8 MB
Rebecca McLain - Institute for Culture and Ecology	The Effects of the Northwest Forest Plan on Local Communities - Adobe .PDF File - 1.9 MB
Chris Moyer - Bureau of Land Management-Oregon/Washington	Decision Support Models Part II: Lessons We Learn Assessing Watershed Condition - Adobe .PDF File - 7.6 MB
Peter Eldred - US Forest Service, Region 6	Reliability of the Data Used for Conducting Watershed Condition Assessments - Adobe .PDF File - 5.8 MB
Steve Lanigan - US Forest Service, Region 6	Balancing Sampling Efforts with the Realities of a Tight Budget and Things that Go Bump in the Night - Adobe .PDF File - 5.5 MB
Raymond Davis - US Forest Service, Region 6	Status and Trends in Habitat of Northern Spotted Owl on Federal Lands - Adobe .PDF File - 6.4 MB
Eric Forsman - US Forest Service, PNW Station	Barred Owls, Spotted Owls and the NWFP-Nobody Said it Was Going to be Easy - Adobe .PDF File - 2.4 MB
Alexandre Hirzel - University of Lausanne, Switzerland	BIOMAPPER:A Tool for Modelling Ecological Niche Mapping Habitat Suitability - Adobe .PDF File - 3.3 MB
Jim Alegria - Bureau of Land Management - Oregon- University of Lausanne, Switzerland	Planning and Monitoring Applications from Vegetation Program - Adobe .PDF File - 5.2 MB
Tom Demeo - US Forest Service Region 6	Fire Ecology of the Northwest Forest Plan Area: Implications for Species Management - Adobe .PDF File - 3.6 MB
Miles Hemstrom - US Forest Service, PNW Research	The Bumpy Road to Monitoring Late-successional Forests under the NWFP
Mark H. Huff - Fish & Wildlife Service	Monitoring Marbled Murrelet Nesting Habitat on Federal Lands Using a Systematic Grid Sampling - Adobe .PDF File - 3.9 MB
Cassandra Moseley - University of Oregon	Socioeconomic Mitigation Measures: Were They Effective and What Have We Learned? - Adobe .PDF File - 2.5 MB
Susan Charnley - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities: Linking the Biophysical and Socioeconomic Goals of the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 4.2 MB
Claudia Stuart - US Forest Service, Region 6	Socioeconomic Monitoring, Adaptive Management, and the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 188 kB
Merv George, Executive Director - California Indian Fire and Forest Management Council	Tribal Perspective onthe NW Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 108 kB
Moderator: Nancy Molina, Bureau of Land Management-Oregon	Synthesis
Fred Swanson - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	What Can History Tell Us About Forest Landscape Dynamics - Adobe .PDF File - 245 kB
Gordon Reeves - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Watershed and Stream Dynamics: Implications for Aquatic Conservation - Adobe .PDF File - 2.9 MB
K. Norman Johnson - Oregon State University	The Non-Federal Lands: Policy Frameworks and Human Behavior - Adobe .PDF File - 4.3 MB
Thomas Spies - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Conservation of Old Forests in a Dynamic Landscape - Adobe .PDF File - 2.2 MB
Bernard Bormann - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Adaptive Management in the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 792 kB
Margaret Boland - US Forest Service, Klamath National Forest Supervisor	A Local View of Adaptive Management - Adobe .PDF File - 1.6 MB
David Busch - USGS - BRD	Adaptive Monitoring: The Northwest Forest Plan Experience Report 1 - Adobe .PDF File - 113 kB Report 2 - Adobe .PDF File - 60 kB Report 3 - Adobe .PDF File - 70 kB
Daniel Sarr - National Park Service	Conceptual and Practical Considerations for Monitoring Biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest - Adobe .PDF File - 2.9 MB
George Stankey - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Building Trust in a Distrustful World: Social Acceptability of the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 83 kB
Ellen Donoghue - US Forest Service, PNW Research Station	Changing Definitions of Communities - Adobe .PDF File - 3.6 MB
Robert Lee - University of Washington	Adaption of Rural Communities to a Postmodern Context and the Role of the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 426 kB
Ernie Niemi - ECONorthwest	Economic Reflections on the Northwest Forest Plan - Adobe .PDF File - 64 kB
Tom Quigley - US Forest Service, PNW Station	Overview and Summary - Adobe .PDF File - 296 kB

Reports

Topic	Report(s)
Synthesis	Haynes, Richard W.; Bormann, Bernard T.; Lee, Danny C.; Martin, Jon R., tech. eds. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994-2003): synthesis of monitoring and research results. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-651. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 292 p. Additional Report
Implementation	Baker, D.; Palmer, C.; Tolle, T. 2005. Northwest Forest Plan - The first ten years (1994-2003): Implementation monitoring: accomplishments and compliance with plan requirements. - Adobe .pdf File - xx kb Adobe .pdf File Figures and Tables Appendix A-D Appendix E-H
Old growth	Moeur, Melinda; Spies, Thomas A.; Hemstrom, Miles; Martin, Jon R.; Alegria, James; Browning, Julie; Cissel, John; Cohen, Warren B.; Demeo, Thomas E.; Healey, Sean; Warbington, Ralph. 2005. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994-2003): status and trend of late-successional and old-growth forest. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-646. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 142 p.
Owls	Lint, Joseph, tech. coord. 2005. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994–2003): status and trends of northern spotted owl populations and habitat. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-648. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 176 p.
Murrelets	Huff, Mark H.; Raphael, Martin G.; Miller, Sherri L.; Nelson, S. Kim; Baldwin, Jim, tech. coords. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994-2003): status and trends of populations and nesting habitat for the marbled murrelet. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-650. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 149 p.
Watersheds	Gallo, Kirsten; Lanigan, Steven H.; Eldred, Peter; Gordon, Sean N.; Moyer, Chris. 2005. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994–2003): preliminary assessment of the condition of watersheds. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-647. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 133 p.
Socioeconomic	Charnley, S., tech. coord. 2006. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994–2003): socioeconomic monitoring results. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-649. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 6 vol.
Tribal	Stuart, C.; Martine, K., tech. eds. 2005. Northwest Forest Plan - The first 10 years (1994–2003): Effectiveness of the Federal-Tribal Relationship. Tech. Pap. R6-RPM-TP-02-2006. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.