Social and Legal Effects on Monitoring and Adaptive Management: A Case Study of National Forest Grazing Allotments, 1927–2007

Sayre, Nathan F.; Biber, Eric; Marchesi, Greta

doi:10.1080/08941920.2012.694579

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“…Constructing that institutional and legal framework necessarily requires a thoughtful examination of the political, economic, and social contexts of the monitoring program. Nonetheless, the monitoring literature has focused on the technical aspects of monitoring or on its justification from a cost-benefits perspective (Sayre et al 2013). …”

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The Challenge of Collecting and Using Environmental Monitoring Data

Biber¹

2013

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The Challenge of Collecting and Using Environmental Monitoring Data

Biber¹

2013

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“…Photo: Brett Milligan. 18 VOLUME 15, ISSUE 3, ARTICLE 3 value to the experiences and embodied knowledge entailed in such work, particularly since "[t]he social relations through which monitoring takes place may be as important to successful adaptive management as the protocols employed or the data obtained" (Sayre et al 2012). Civic ecology, community-based environmental monitoring, and community-based watershed stewardship programs have shown promise in increasing citizen trust in government, improving the biophysical environment, and fostering participants' ecological understanding, while aiding scientific efforts and offering productive and desirable work-play experiences for the public (Shandas and Messer 2008;Theobald et al 2015;McKinley et al 2015.…”

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Inhabiting the Delta: A Landscape Approach to Transformative Socio-Ecological Restoratio

Milligan¹,

Kraus-Polk²

2017

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Current legislation and plans for the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) call for large-scale restoration of aquatic and terrestrial habitats, which will require significant changes in waterways, land uses, and cultural patterns. These re-made landscapes will be subject to a variety of new human uses, which Delta planning and adaptive management literature has yet to adequately consider. Failing to account for human uses and evolving place values can lead to diminished performance and public support for Delta restoration efforts.Our empirical study examined restored and naturalized Delta landscapes using an integrative landscape approach that seeks to reconcile multiple goals and land-use agendas that span ecological, social, economic, and political domains. The research design consisted of six overlapping methods that included a planning, policy, and law review specific to the Delta; surveys and interviews with approximately 100 land managers, scientists, land-owners, law-enforcement personnel, agency representatives, and Delta residents; nine case studies of restored and naturalized delta landscapes; GIS mapping; and extensive field work.Findings derived from the synthesis of these methods show that human uses of the Delta's re-wilded landscapes are diverse and pervasive. Given the infrastructural and urbanized context of the region, these environments are subject to multiple and sometimes conflicting uses, perceptions, and place values. Though these myriad uses cannot be fully predicted or controlled (nor should they be), findings showed that more proactive and inclusive planning for human uses can encourage or discourage particular uses while also building constituency, support, and active engagement in ecological restoration efforts. We conclude that reconciling human uses with ecological recovery in the Delta will require a more localized, multi-functional, and creative approach to designing and adaptively managing these emergent landscapes. We recommend that more resources and experimental prototyping be dedicated to such work.

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“…Unfortunately, budgetary and institutional constraints have long limited public land monitoring, as noted by Fernandez-Gimenez et al (2005). Sayre et al (2013) state that monitoring is a critical component of adaptive management but often weak or missing in practice . The premise of this paper is that expanded monitoring is a prerequisite for improved rangeland management.…”

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Innovations to expand drone data collection and analysis for rangeland monitoring

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Ponce‐Campos

Swetnam

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In adaptive management of rangelands, monitoring is the vital link that connects management actions with on-the-ground changes. Traditional field monitoring methods can provide detailed information for assessing the health of rangelands, but cost often limits monitoring locations to a few key areas or random plots. Remotely sensed imagery, and drone-based imagery in particular, can observe larger areas than field methods while retaining high enough spatial resolution to estimate many rangeland indicators of interest. However, the geographic extent of drone imagery products is often limited to a few hectares (for resolution ≤ 1 cm) due to image collection and processing constraints. Overcoming these limitations would allow for more extensive observations and more frequent monitoring. We developed a workflow to increase the extent and speed of acquiring, processing, and analyzing drone imagery for repeated monitoring of two common indicators of interest to rangeland managers: vegetation cover and vegetation heights. By incorporating a suite of existing technologies in drones (real-time kinematic GPS), data processing (automation with Python scripts, high performance computing), and cloud-based analysis (Google Earth Engine), we greatly increased the efficiency of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting high volumes of drone imagery for rangeland monitoring. End-to-end, our workflow took 30 days, while a workflow without these innovations was estimated to require 141 days to complete. The technology around drones and image analysis is rapidly advancing which is making high volume workflows easier to implement. Larger quantities of monitoring data will significantly improve our understanding of the impact management actions have on land processes and ecosystem traits.

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Social and Legal Effects on Monitoring and Adaptive Management: A Case Study of National Forest Grazing Allotments, 1927–2007

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

The Challenge of Collecting and Using Environmental Monitoring Data

The Challenge of Collecting and Using Environmental Monitoring Data

Inhabiting the Delta: A Landscape Approach to Transformative Socio-Ecological Restoratio

Innovations to expand drone data collection and analysis for rangeland monitoring

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