Meeting
February 1, 2001, 10am – 12pm
v Attendance:
Ø Mischon Martin (Marin CO, Open Space), Ellen Goheen
(USFS- Oregon), Mark Hite (CDF), Eric Folmer (EBRPD), Guido Chiardi (SF Water),
Lisa Schicker (CalTrans D5), Holly Pyle (USDA-PPQ), Hans de Gruyter (PD –
Netherlands), Will Russell (USGS- GGNRA), Dave Rizzo (UCDavis), Janet Klein
(MMWD), Christopher Thayer (Sycamore Associates), Chris States (CalTrans),
Lawrence Marais (UC Riverside), Catherine Ramberg (GGNRA), Chris Fischer (CDF),
Jeremey Lockwood (CDF), Paul Vossen (UCCE – Sonoma Co.), Darnell Shaw (DS
Environmental Consulting), Roger Van Gelder (SCGGA), Mike Branson (City of
Carmel), Patrick Robards (CCSP), Ed Gurka (City of Sausolito), Frances Nunez
(?), Tom Garman (East-West Forestry / Cal Oak Foundation).
v Old Business
Ø Status of Monitoring Efforts
§
Regional Scale Efforts
·
Aerial Surveys – will
continue as needed
·
Remote Sensing – TM
Change Detection
§
Landscape Scale Efforts
·
ADAR imagery – on-going
in Marin
§
Local Scale Efforts
·
1. Detection Report
¨
Protocol will be
developed soon.
¨
Janet Klein, Mischon
Martin, and Catherine Romberg will be assisting with this.
·
2. Systematic Survey
¨
Issues:
Ø Plot Size (nested, 1 ha, FIA standard)
Ø Plot Placement (stratified, random, stratified
random)
Ø Measurement (symptoms)
§
Systematic Sampling
Protocol Focus Team: Mischon Martin, Tom Garman, Roger VanGElder, Mike Branson,
Paul Vossen, Laurence Marais, Chris States, Will Russell, Janet Klein.
·
3. Symptom Progression
¨
Dave Wood’s Lab at
Berkeley is doing this.
·
4. Habitat Consequences
¨
Research efforts
starting through the research committee.
Ø
Status of Confirmation
Efforts
§
In-Service Workshop
Ø Status of Funding
§
Funding Needs:
·
Open Space Districts:
¨
We should develop a
manual for monitoring methods.
¨
We need GPS units for
samplers.
¨
Laser Survey Equipment
would be useful.
·
Regional Scale (TM
Change Detection)
¨
Imagery acquisition and
analysis support
·
Landscape Scale
¨
Continue ADAR imagery
acquisition and analysis
·
Confirmation Stage
¨
CDFA might need money
for PCR equip.
·
General Monitoring
¨
Money for some kind of
workshop, suggested a mapping conference where all those involved share
information and data.
¨
Money for a coordinator
for the monitoring efforts.
Ø Interaction with other COMTF committees.
§
Regulation Committee
·
Listing of Oaks. When
might this happen? What might the criteria be?
§
Fire Prevention
·
Public resource codes
for access to private lands – check on this
·
Coordinate with the
Fire committee with respect to imagery processing and future acquisitions.
·
Who is looking at dead
and down fuels?
§
Education
·
Communicate the goals
of the monitoring committee
·
Coordinate any
monitoring workshops
·
Help with private
landowner access.
v New Business
Ø Notes:
§
Seasonal People should
be coordinated through a ventral agency, like the weed mapping efforts
on-going. This way we can share
resources.
§
CalTrans. Chris States
says there are many opportunities to coordinate with the monitoring on-going
through CalTrans. Lisa Schicker (from San Luis Obispo CalTrans Office) concurs.
§
The hazard tree aspect
of SOD will be a critical way to get support (monetary and agency) – Larry
Shields.