 Tier 1: Monitoring that will be done regardless of funding received:  Forest Service Preference is to focus on vegetation, e.g. Stand Structure including wildlife habitat components such as snags, dead/down material 2

Tier 2: Monitoring and/or research we would like to see completed that could be funded by partners, grants, and so on  Examples include:  Aquatic Invertebrates as a measure of Watershed Restoration  Wildlife Indicator Species for each of the Stand Types  Research by SRME 3

Two Levels of Monitoring:  Landscape Scale  Treatment Area (Stand) Scale 4

Landscape Level –  How are defining landscape?  800,000 acre restoration zone  Restoration zones around the northern focus areas and southern focus area  HUC 6  Look at Trend towards restoration as identified in Kauffman papers (or future research)  Change in Fire Behavior (an aggregation of Stand Data collected at Stand or Treatment Unit level) 5

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 Stand/Treatment Level – Separate ranges for the 2 major cover types in the restoration area: ◦ Ponderosa pine ◦ Mixed Conifer: Ponderosa Pine/Douglas-fir 7 Metrics Include: Trees per acre Basal Area Tree species composition Age Classes Canopy Cover Crown Base Height Canopy Bulk Density Understory species composition Presence of noxious weeds/exotics

 Restoration zone is defined in the CFLR Proposal as the Lower Montane (as identified in 2006 Roundtable Report). The definition can be refined as needed.  Current NEPA is based on Kauffman Paper(s).  Doesn’t allow diameter limits or age limits in defining trees to be left after treatment  Future NEPA can be based on what we learn through monitoring and additional research 8

 Definition of Old Growth is a Forest Plan level decision, not something that can be decided by this group, independent of other stakeholders.  AR has an old growth definition in their Current Forest Plan  Pike doesn’t have an old growth definition but it will be defined when the forest goes through the forest plan revision process in a year or two 9

 Metrics need to be easily measured given yearly funding limitations  Desired conditions need to be displayed in ranges, not absolute amounts 10

11  What we know – ◦ MPB is spreading into Ponderosa Pine Type (PP)  History – ◦ MPB has cause extensive mortality before  Research – ◦ Increased MPB mortality in higher stocking (BA & # trees/acre) and larger diameter trees  What Could Happen - ◦ Could and currently are experiencing heavy mortality in PP type

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