Awardee Name
Oregon Cattleman's Association
Grant Type
State
Project Title
Oregon Habitat Monitoring Initiative is an innovative, standardized, landowner/operator-based rangeland monitoring program in Oregon.
Awardee State/Territory
Oregon
Involved States/territories
Oregon
Award Year
2012
End Date
Award Amount
$75,000.00
Production/Use
Grassland (Includes Pasture/Rangeland)
Resource Concern (Broad)
Habitat
Resource Concern (Specific)
Terrestrial habitat for wildlife and invertebrates
Project Background
Project objectives: The goal is to have an inter-agency and multi-stakeholder co-operatively endorsed guide available for rangeland and habitat monitoring that describes functional, time efficient, and credible information that increases cooperative on-the-ground monitoring. There are four objectives for the project:
1. Develop a landowner/operator-based monitoring program with a set of standardized monitoring protocols to provide ways to assess rangeland riparian areas, streams, plant communities, and uplands for use by state, federal, private landowners, and interested professionals without regard to the ownership boundaries for sustainable wildlife habitat.
2. Develop a Monitoring Guide that is time sensitive and pertinent to the livestock grazing activity. In addition to standardized monitoring data collection protocols, the guide will include systematic information such as the benefits of collecting data before and after grazing in a pasture rather than at the end of season or during a one time investigation.
3. Disseminate the monitoring guide and tool kits, promote the benefits of rangeland and habitat monitoring to the 13,000 ranchers across Oregon and hold on-the-ground training. This program will provide vital information to help support sustainable range management while also demonstrating and quantifying the impacts of grazing as a habitat management tool within the time frame of the grazing period.
4. Develop a data management system that is easily accessible for ranchers to record, store and retrieve monitoring data in a standardized format that can be easily integrated at individual, local and state levels. It is important for detailed monitoring reports to be accessible by individual ranchers for their management decisions. Broader trend reports, based on accumulative monitoring data for larger landscape areas, will provide measurable results of grazing on habitat along with evaluation of monitoring objectives on a regional or state level
1. Develop a landowner/operator-based monitoring program with a set of standardized monitoring protocols to provide ways to assess rangeland riparian areas, streams, plant communities, and uplands for use by state, federal, private landowners, and interested professionals without regard to the ownership boundaries for sustainable wildlife habitat.
2. Develop a Monitoring Guide that is time sensitive and pertinent to the livestock grazing activity. In addition to standardized monitoring data collection protocols, the guide will include systematic information such as the benefits of collecting data before and after grazing in a pasture rather than at the end of season or during a one time investigation.
3. Disseminate the monitoring guide and tool kits, promote the benefits of rangeland and habitat monitoring to the 13,000 ranchers across Oregon and hold on-the-ground training. This program will provide vital information to help support sustainable range management while also demonstrating and quantifying the impacts of grazing as a habitat management tool within the time frame of the grazing period.
4. Develop a data management system that is easily accessible for ranchers to record, store and retrieve monitoring data in a standardized format that can be easily integrated at individual, local and state levels. It is important for detailed monitoring reports to be accessible by individual ranchers for their management decisions. Broader trend reports, based on accumulative monitoring data for larger landscape areas, will provide measurable results of grazing on habitat along with evaluation of monitoring objectives on a regional or state level
Project targeted to Historically Underserved producers?
No