Module 3 - Group Assignment - How much do we need for your HUC 8? How many acres, miles and dollars?

As discussed in class, you are working in teams to prepare a preliminary answer to the basic question of how much do we need for a proposed resilience bond in the HUC 8 you and your team chose. Specifically, how much:

• Total acres of Proposed Upland Treatments (e.g. PJ removal, forest thinning, fuels treatments)
• Total miles of riverscape proposed for Low-Tech PBR treatments
• Estimated Total Cost of Proposed Actions (you can provide ranges and medians)

To support your analysis, please  use the following assumptions to calculate ranges and medians in your table/spreadsheet:

• For Upland Treatments use: Min cost of $300/acre; Median cost of $1000/acre;  Upper cost of $2500 /acre
• For Riverscape  LTPBR Treatments use:  Min cost of $50,000/mile; Upper cost of $100,000/mile;  and also a Reference Traditional Restoration cost of $350,000/mile

To identify your upland treatments:

• Maybe filter down to just PJ and or Douglas Fir on land that looks treatable (e.g. USFS / BLM ownership) or large private tracts (ignore lots of small parcels)
• Filter to just the BRAT Low-Hanging-Fruit Result

I lay out a tutorial for how to do this in QGIS here Links to an external site. for you.

Please upload:

1. A shared URL to your Google Sheet with numbers (don't forget to turn on sharing)
2. A PDF of your Map (show HUC 8, some context and the polygons for upland treatment, and the portion of the river network you used for areas to treat)

When complete, one member of your group can export it as a PDF and submit it here in Canvas.