1. Planning For and With Ecosystem Services
January 24, 2012

3. Tacoma Narrows Bridge, 1940 (http://ta. twi. tudelft

4. Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as caught on film by Barney Elliott.
8-minute DVD on the construction and collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge by The Camera Shop in Tacoma (

5. Good planning and design fits the constraints of the site while satisfying the needs of the users

6. Isle Royale National Park, MI

9. 6 Characteristics of Ecological Engineers
The anticipated amount of activity that can be accomplished within the organisms lifetime;
The population density of the organism;
The spatial distribution of the organism;
The duration that an organism has occupied a region;
The type, formation, and permanency of construction, artifacts, and impacts and their durability in the absence of the engineer;
The number and type of resources that are directly and indirectly controlled by the engineering activity.

10. Characteristics of Static Systems
Easy to evaluate and determine risk;
Easy to control;
Easy to construct;
Easy to locate;
Easy to navigate
Easy to understand;
Degree of permanence;
Predictable;
Convenient;
Replaceable;
Intended to be somewhat immutable;
Manageable;

11. There is no plan or design so magnificent or so permanent that it cannot be undone by nature in time

13. Inventories and Assessments
Natural Resources Inventory (NRI)
Ecological Assessment (EA)
Ecosystem Modeling
Habitat Evaluation
Habitat Suitability Index
Data intensive
Mapping intensive
Field work intensive
Document major species or habitats
Map habitat differences on the landscape
Identify composition of habitats
Evaluate relative rarity
Estimate relative health

26. Set tangible ecosystem service goals
Let nature do the work
Do more yourself by planning for self sufficient opportunities
Avoid homogenous landscapes
Plan for succession and change
Plan for dynamic system development areas within the fabric of the static core
Allow dynamic systems the room to move and function as intended