Long-Term Planning for Vegetation Management

Contents

• Summary
• Learning Objectives
• References
• Materials and Equipment
• Topics
  1. Overview: Starting a Long-Term Vegetation Management Plan
  2. Mapping
  3. Using Vegetation Series
  4. Identifying Soil Types
  5. Monitoring and the Adaptive Management Cycle
  6. Conclusion: Filling Out Your Plan
• Return to Curriculum Overview

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Summary

This module presents an introduction to the development of Long-Term Vegetation Management Plans for rural property owners and managers. Vegetation may be a help or a hindrance in the achievement of rural land management goals. Cost-effective, sustainable vegetation management requires a long-term perspective. In this module, we present an overview of long-term planning for vegetation management for rural property owners and managers, with an emphasis on adaptive management approaches to discourage invasive weeds while encouraging native and non-invasive vegetation.

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion of this module, a student should be able to:

1. list the steps in the development of a long-term management plan;
2. correctly use the terminology needed for writing the plan;
3. state land management goals for properties familiar to the student;
4. describe the adaptive management cycle;
5. describe the information, capabilities and resources needed to complete a long-term management plan regarding:
   1. maps;
   2. vegetation types;
   3. soil types;
6. identify sources where the needed information, capabilities and resources may be acquired.

Basic References

Cox Island Preserve Plan

http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/products/plans/CI-Plan.pdf

Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area Project Checklist

http://www.mcwma.org/documents/MCWMA-PR-Checklist_2006_06_06.doc

Mendocino County Planning Department

Mendocino County Planning Department

Aerial Photography: Google Earth

http://earth.google.com/

US Geological Survey Home Page

http://www.usgs.gov/

Review of GIS software

http://www.geoplan.ufl.edu/software.html

Online Manual of California Vegetation (CNPS)

http://davisherb.ucdavis.edu/cnpsActiveServer/index.html

A Manual of California Vegetation (CNPS)

Sawyer, J. O. and Keeler-Wolk, T., 1995, CNPS, Sacramento, California.
May be ordered from the California Native Plant Society.

Mendocino County Vegetation Types

http://www.imcwma.org/pages_html/learn/LTMP/MendoVegSeries/

Simple Soil Identification Tests

http://www.mite.com.au/manual/soiltest.html

NRCS Web Soil Survey

http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/

The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) weed management plan template and models

http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/products.html

Advanced References

Cosumnes River Preserve Plan

http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/products/plans/CRP-Plan.pdf

California Weed Mapping Handbook

http://cain.nbii.gov/weedhandbook/

STATSGO soil characteristics for the conterminous United States

sgs.gov/lookup/getspatial?muid

Adaptive Management: A Tool for Conservation Practitioners.

Salafsky, N., R. Margoluis, and K. Redford. Washington, D.C.: Biodiversity Support Program. Obtained from http://fosonline.org/resources/Publications/AdapManHTML/adman_1.html on 2007/05/24.

Cal-IPC website to order Yellow Starthistle Management Guide:

http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/yst.php

Download the Yellow Starthistle Management Guide:

http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/management/YSTMgmtweb.pdf [Large PDF file]

A template IVM plan for a particular species (broom)

http://members.efn.org/%7Eipmpa/Noxbroom.html

Noxious Weeds: Biological Wildfire, Steven E. Dewey, Utah State University

http://extension.usu.edu/files/agpubs/wildfire.pdf

Recommended Materials and Equipment

The course may be presented with or without computers. The materials marked with a * are recommended for a computer-based presentation.

1. * Personal computer, access to computer laboratory or computers in classroom with internet access;
2. *Web browser: Firefox 1.5+, IE 5.5+, Netscape 8.1+, Opera 9+ (the web content has been verified with these browsers, other browsers may also render adequately);
3. *Mapping software such as QuantumGIS, IDRISI Andes or ArcGIS;
4. Aerial photographs of students' management sites and/or a demonstration site. These may be obtained free from http://earth.google.com/.
5. Printed copies of "A Manual of California Vegetation", or photocopies of selected series;
6. Spreadsheet of locally-relevant vegetation series, as hardcopy or *burned onto CDs for each student;

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