Management Plan
Place-Based Decision Making
Working adaptively over time
Restoration priorities will evolve over time as new challenges and opportunities arise. The most likely evolution of these activities will proceed through a series steps that will include:
- Resource-specific problem identification or site-specific opportunity identification
- Remediation activities such as invasive plant control, pollution reduction, or hydraulic changes
- Revegetation activities; 4) seasonal and annual land stewardship activities
- Data gathering, research, and monitoring activities.
Cycle of Restoration and Management
This cycle of restoration and management activities allows for an iterative feedback loop, where activities at each step in the process supply important information for subsequent steps. Most importantly, there is no end-point: successful restoration does not stop when the plants are in the ground or when the trees reach a certain height; restoration continues seamlessly with management, monitoring, and research efforts.
These assure the success of revegetation efforts, measure the quality of habitat improvement, and provide statistical information on success and failure. In turn each step provides the data needed to confidently move to the next step. This continuous cycle of planning, remediation, revegetation, stewardship, and monitoring is the adaptive restoration and management framework.
Adaptive Restoration and management
Adaptive restoration and management, is well served by good organizational tools. These include data management tools, information dissemination tools, and research administration tools. Data management tools include databases to store and retrieve project information as well as geographic information systems (GIS) for analyzing spatially represented data. Closely tied to these tools, the proposed Laguna Ecosystem Database and the well-established California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES), are two important data repositories for Laguna related work. Information dissemination tools include Internet web sites, FTP data exchange servers, email list-serves, journals and newsletters.
Among these the Russian River Interactive Information System (RRIIS) is an important local resource. Research administration tools include basic calendaring, spreadsheet and mapping software that assists and coordinates research programs that cross disciplinary boundaries. This type of organizational oversight helps leverage volunteer efforts, helps dovetail similar programmatic efforts, and helps prevent accidental site-related problems that can arise when many researchers share test plots.
Place based decision making
Place-based decision making is a smart way to look at a complex set of overlapping issues. By looking at many issues simultaneously, decision makers can avoid the mistake of disproportionately weighting the solution to one problem over another without balancing the needs and possible solutions for both. Throughout the work of developing Enhancing and Caring for the Laguna participants were challenged to think about this complexity at every decision point.
Thus, in the end, the goals, objectives, and recommendations which form the core of this work, was strengthened by considering things in this place-based fashion: by simultaneously looking at the Laguna as an economic engine, as an agricultural work horse, as a cultural and historical attraction, and as an ecological hotspot, the goals and objectives for the Laguna de Santa Rosa have been well received and broadly supported by the area’s diverse community of stakeholders.
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