Engaging Stakeholders on Forest Health: A Model for Integrating Climatic, Ecological, and Societal Indicators at the Watershed Scale

Arnott, James; Osenga, E. C.; Cundiff, J.; Katzenberger, J.

doi:10.5849/jof.14-119

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“…A key feature of the development of iRON has been intensive collaboration with local resource managers to codesign and help sustain the network. Prior to its establishment in 2012, local interest in bioclimatic change in the Roaring Fork Valley was documented through studies that surveyed and interviewed practitioners working to manage and conserve water and land resources (Arnott et al, ; Arnott et al, ; Aspen Global Change Institute, ). This process occurred through multistakeholder roundtables focused on water and forestry issues, as well as through targeted interaction with specific land management entities.…”

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Bioclimatic and Soil Moisture Monitoring Across Elevation in a Mountain Watershed: Opportunities for Research and Resource Management

Osenga

Arnott

Endsley

et al. 2019

Water Resources Research

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Soil moisture data are critical to understanding biophysical and societal impacts of climate change. However, soil moisture data availability is limited due to sparse in situ monitoring, particularly in mountain regions. Here we present methods, specifications, and initial results from the interactive Roaring Fork Observation Network (iRON), a soil, weather, and ecological monitoring system in the Southern Rocky Mountains of Colorado. Initiated in 2012, the network is currently composed of nine stations, distributed in elevation from 1,890 to 3,680 m, that continually collect and transmit measurements of soil moisture at three depths (5, 20, and 50 cm), soil temperature (20 cm), and meteorological conditions. Time‐lapse cameras for phenological observations, snow depth sensors, and periodic co‐located vegetation surveys complement selected stations. iRON was conceived and designed with the joint purpose of supporting bioclimatic research and resource management objectives in a snow‐dominated watershed. In the short term, iRON data can be applied to assessing the impact of temperature and precipitation on seasonal soil moisture conditions and trends. As more data are collected over time, iRON will help improve understanding of climate‐driven changes to soil, vegetation, and hydrologic conditions. In presenting this network and its initial data, we hope that the network's elevational gradient will contribute to bioclimatic mountain research, while active collaboration with partners in resource management may provide a model for science‐practice interaction in support of long‐term monitoring.

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Bioclimatic and Soil Moisture Monitoring Across Elevation in a Mountain Watershed: Opportunities for Research and Resource Management

Osenga

Arnott

Endsley

et al. 2019

Water Resources Research

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“…One common practice is to register the symptoms of pest damage [30, 66••], or to develop a rigorous scoring system or index to record the health of the trees, e.g. stem and crown condition, allowing tree health evaluation to be comparable across space and time [52,68,69].…”

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Citizen Science and Monitoring Forest Pests: a Beneficial Alliance?

Groot

Pocock

Bonte³

et al. 2022

Curr Forestry Rep

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Purpose of the Review One of the major threats to tree health, and hence the resilience of forests and their provision of ecosystem services, is new and emerging pests. Therefore, forest health monitoring is of major importance to detect invasive, emerging and native pest outbreaks. This is usually done by foresters and forest health experts, but can also be complemented by citizen scientists. Here, we review the use of citizen science for detection and monitoring, as well as for hypothesis-driven research and evaluation of control measures as part of forest pest surveillance and research. We then examine its limitations and opportunities and make recommendations on the use of citizen science for forest pest monitoring. Recent Findings The main opportunities of citizen scientists for forest health are early warning, early detection of new pests, monitoring of impact of outbreaks and scientific research. Each domain has its own limitations, opportunities and recommendations to follow, as well as their own public engagement strategies. The development of new technologies provides many opportunities to involve citizen scientists in forest pest monitoring. To enhance the benefits of citizen scientists’ inclusion in monitoring, it is important that they are involved in the cocreation of activities. Summary Future monitoring and research may benefit from tailor-made citizen science projects to facilitate successful monitoring by citizen scientists and expand their practice to countries where the forest health sector is less developed. In this sense, citizen scientists can help understand and detect outbreaks of new pests and avoid problems in the future.

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Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters

Meng

Wang

Qin

et al. 2022

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Engaging Stakeholders on Forest Health: A Model for Integrating Climatic, Ecological, and Societal Indicators at the Watershed Scale

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Bioclimatic and Soil Moisture Monitoring Across Elevation in a Mountain Watershed: Opportunities for Research and Resource Management

Bioclimatic and Soil Moisture Monitoring Across Elevation in a Mountain Watershed: Opportunities for Research and Resource Management

Citizen Science and Monitoring Forest Pests: a Beneficial Alliance?

Health assessment of plantations based on LiDAR canopy spatial structure parameters

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