1. Optimizing Restoration Benefits in the Truckee River Watershed
Modeling exercise using Resource Investment and Optimization System (RIOS) model
Assess how to optimize return on restoration investments in terms of water quality benefits
Restoration Activities:
Forest Restoration (thinning)
Meadow Restoration
Riparian Restoration
Dirt Road Maintenance
Land Protection
NNWPC – August 3, 2016 – Item 10

5. Questions:
Do the modeled activities provide more ecosystem service benefits than the planned activities ( ) for the same budget allocation?
Does increasing the budget result in ecosystem services that meet the sediment and nutrient load reduction goals?

6. Land use/Land cover Topography Climate Soil properties Watershed areas
and associated properties
Topography
Climate
Soil properties
Watershed areas
Biophysical factors
Feasible activities
Stakeholder preferences
Cost data
Budget
Investment portfolio
Beneficiaries

7. Landscape Context stream Upslope source On-pixel source
On-pixel retention
Downslope
retention
…and many are also used for creating derivative factors that take the landscape context into consideration. What’s happening on each grid cell is important, as well as what’s happening upslope of that cell (generation of sediment/nutrient/etc) and downslope of that cell (ability to retain sediment/nutrient/etc.)
stream

8. Modeled Activities

9. Modeled Activities (10% area treated)

13. Next Steps: Complete return on investment analysis using InVest model
Final stakeholder meeting – August 2016
Landscape Conservation Forecasting Model application