The EMAP Symposium on Western Ecological Systems: Status, Issues, and New Approaches April 6-8, 1999 Holiday Inn, Fisherman’s Wharf San Francisco, CA Click here to go to Table of Contents Click here for quick instructions about navigating in this document EMAP WESTERN SYMPOSIUM CONTENTS Plenary Session EMAP Overview: Objectives, Approaches and Achievements................................ 3 Michael E. McDonald Managing Multiple Competing Objectives for State Water Quality Monitoring Programs........... 4 J. David Holm Ecological Management on Indian Lands............................................... 5 William R. Swaney Saving the Best of the West: Designing and Conserving Networks of Conservation Areas.......... 6 Deborah B. Jensen Science and the Management of Western Ecosystems...................................... 7 Mark Schaefer Concurrent Session 1 Aquatic and Riparian Effectiveness Monitoring for the Northwest Forest Plan................... 11 Gordon Reeves, Dave Hohler, Polly Hayes, Tom Atzet, Phil Larsen, Michael Tehan, Kim Kratz, Dave Busch, and Karl Stein Assessing the Ecological Condition of Streams and Rivers in Oregon from Probability Survey Data .. 12 John Stoddard, Alan Herlihy, Bob Hughes, Charles Hendricks, Spence Peterson, and Phil Kaufmann Monitoring Aquatic Systems in the Sierra Nevada........................................ 13 Carolyn Hunsaker, Amy Lind, Kenneth Roby, and James Frazier Integrated Population and Habitat Monitoring for the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watershed...... 14 Kelly M. S. Moore, Julie C. Firman, and Barry A. Thom Extrapolation from MAIA Surface Water Monitoring to Western Monitoring and Assessment Programs...................................................................... 15 Tom DeMoss and Tom Pheiffer An Overview of Region 8's R-EMAP Activities........................................... 16 Jim Luey, Jill Minter and Tom Johnson Aquatic Bioassessment in U.S. EPA Region 9........................................... 17 Robert K. Hall, Gary A. Wolinsky, Peter Husby, James Harrington, Patti Spindler, Karen Vargas, and Gordon Smith Ecological Assessment: How EMAP Fits into a State Monitoring Program..................... 18 Gregory A. Pettit and Rick Hafele Concurrent Session 2 A Landscape Assessment of the Western United States: The EMAP Western Pilot................ 21 K. Bruce Jones, Daniel T. Heggem, Timothy G. Wade, Karl A. Hermann, Anthony R. Selle, Scott Augustine, Joel Pedersen, David Bolgrien, J. Max Viger, Dean Chiang, Cindy J. Lin, Yehong Zhong, and Rick N. VanRemortel TABLE OF CONTENTS I EMAP WESTERN SYMPOSIUM Journey into Economic Ecology: An Explorer’s Diary ..................................... 22 Robert V. O’Neill Landscape Variables and the Ranking of Water Quality Conditions: Results for a Semi-Arid Region of Australia ............................................................... 23 Joe Walker, Trevor Dowling, James D. Wickham, David McKenzie, Kurt H. Riitters, K. Bruce Jones, and William G. Kepner Monitoring Australian Rangeland Sites Using Landscape Function Indicators and Robust Ground and Remote Techniques ............................................................... 24 John A Ludwig Development of the Coastal Intensive Site Network (CISNet) ............................... 25 Kevin Summers, Andrew Robertson, and Barbara Levinson Index Sites for Understanding and Monitoring Terrestrial Ecological Effects (PRIMEnet); and Forest Ecosystem Indicators: Monitoring, Assessment and Prediction (FEIMAP) ..................... 26 William E. Hogsett Application of Ecological Classification and Predictive Vegetation Modeling to Broad-Level Assessments of Ecosystem Health .................................................... 27 Mark E. Jensen, Roland L. Redmond, Iris A. Goodman, and Jeff DiBenedetto Concurrent Session 3 Assessment of Benthic Infauna on the Mainland Shelf of Southern California ................... 31 Stephen B. Weisberg, Mary Bergen, Don Cadien, Ann Dalkey, Dave Montagne, Robert W. Smith, Jan Stull, and Ron G. Velarde A Regional Microbiological Survey of the Southern California Bight Shoreline .................. 32 John H. Dorsey, Molly Leecaster, Rachel Noble, Dan Reid, Ken Schiff, and Stephen B. Weisberg Ten Years of Experience with the Puget Sound Ambient Monitoring Program: Results and Status.... 33 Kenneth A. Dzinbal, and Scott Redman A Tale of Three Bays with Respect to Environmental Monitoring and Wastewater Management: Southern California Bight, San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound ............................. 34 Alan Mearns Geophysical and Geological Monitoring of Hawaiian Ocean Disposal Sites with Multibeam Sonar and Bottom Sampling ............................................................. 35 Michael E. Torresan, Monty A. Hampton, Florence L. Wong, and James V. Gardner Regional Monitoring in the San Francisco Bay: Synthesis and Key Issues ...................... 36 Bruce Thompson, Rainer Hoenicke, and Jay Davis U.S. Geological Survey Research in San Francisco Bay and Delta ............................ 37 Frederic H. Nichols Interagency Programs in California Central Valley and Delta ............................... 38 Chuck Armor Near-Border Chemical Monitoring of Sediments in Mexican Waters .......................... 39 J. Vinicio Macias-Zamora, Julio A. Villaescusa-Celaya, Nancy Ramirez-Alvarez, Jorge R. Valdivia-Cruz, Dulce. I. F. Partida-Gutierrez, Albino Munoz-Arreola, Gaspar Sandoval-Salazar, and Efrain A. Gutierrez-Galindo II TABLE OF CONTENTS EMAP WESTERN SYMPOSIUM Status of Monitoring for Marine Environmental Quality in Alaska ........................... 40 Jeffrey D. Hock and Judy Kitagawa Concurrent Session 4 Forest Inventory and Analysis: Overview of Activity in the Western Forests and Monitoring Approaches ............................................................ 43 David L. Azuma Forest Health Monitoring Program - Conceptual Approach, Analyses, and Reporting on Forest Health ................................................................. 44 Kenneth W. Stolte and William D. Smith The National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program .............................. 45 Gary L. Williams Assessing the Sustainability of the Forest Resources of Coastal Oregon: The Coastal Landscape Analysis and Modeling Study (CLAMS) ............................................... 46 K. Norman Johnson An Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the Columbia Basin ................................ 47 Thomas M. Quigley, Russell T. Graham, and Rebecca Gravenmier Monitoring Ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada: The Conceptual Model Foundation ............... 48 Patricia N. Manley, William J. Zielinski, Claudia M. Stuart, John J. Keane, Amy J. Lind, Cathy Brown, Beth Plymale, and Carolyn Napper Ecosystem Models as Tools in Assessing Mountain Protected Areas .......................... 49 Daniel B. Fagre, Steven W. Running, Robert E. Keane, and F. Richard Hauer Modeling Nitrogen Accumulation and Retention in Pacific Northwest Forests ................... 50 Robert B. McKane Monitoring Air Quality in Mountains: Designing an Effective Network ....................... 51 David L. Peterson Concurrent Session 5 Development and Implementation of Integrated Monitoring Designs .......................... 55 Anthony R. Olsen Integrating Sampling Strategies for Accuracy Assessment of Land Cover Maps with Environmental Monitoring Programs .............................................................. 56 Stephen V. Stehman, Raymond L. Czaplewski, Sarah M. Nusser, Limin Yang, and Zhi-Liang Zhu Northwest Forest Plan Assessment and Monitoring Framework .............................. 57 Daniel H. McKenzie Toward a General Inventory and Monitoring Protocol for the USDA Forest Service: Recent Pilot Study for the Northern Region ....................................................... 58 Michael Sieg, Patrice E. Janiga, Barry Bollenbacher, Hans T. Schreuder, and Thomas W. Hoekstra TABLE OF CONTENTS III EMAP WESTERN SYMPOSIUM Inventorying Environmental Monitoring Programs for the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) ........................................................................ 59 Mary Patricia Bradley and Laura Jackson Designing Environmental Monitoring Databases for Statistical Analyses ....................... 60 Stephen S. Hale and Henry W. Buffum Concurrent Session 6 Linking Assessments of Rangeland Ecosystem Health to Management Decisions ................. 63 Joel R. Brown, Mort Kothmann, and X. Ben Wu In Search of a Workable Assessment Strategy ........................................... 64 James E. Stone Modeling Hydrologic Response to Landscape Change in Semi-Arid Regions .................... 65 David C. Goodrich, Mariano Hernandez, Scott N. Miller, Bruce F. Goff, William G. Kepner, and Curtis M. Edmonds Assessing Amphibian Metapopulation Status in Arid Environments .......................... 66 David F. Bradford New Approaches for Sampling and Modeling Native and Exotic Species ....................... 67 Geneva W. Chong, Robin Reich, and Mohammed A. Kalkhan Assessing and Monitoring the Health of Western Rangeland Watersheds ....................... 68 Amrita G. de Soyza, Walter G. Whitford, Sandra J. Turner, Justin W. Van Zee, Alan R. Johnson, Jeffrey E. Herrick, and Kris M. Havstad Concurrent Session 7 Monitoring in NOAA’s Research Reserves and Marine Sanctuaries........................... 71 Stephen R. Gittings, Dwight D. Trueblood, and Paula J. 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