LTPBR Planning Report - Introduction and Project Setting ,

In this course you will develop Phase 1 of a Planning Report for a LTPBR project. The goal in Phase 1 is to describe the background, problem, setting, condition and trajectory of site, and pathways to recovery. Phase 1 will be a DESKTOP exercise meaning the setting and condition assessment will be based on available reports, online resources, and spatial data. In a typical planning process this DESKTOP exercise would be followed up by a field visit to validate and adjust as necessary.

CEWA students (people with jobs) can either choose their own project site, or use the Worm Creek, Idaho project site. CEWA students have discretion to use any platform and data sources to develop the Phase 1 report. If you do NOT have relatively strong GIS skills and time to devote outside of class to making maps and a fancy report, you should focus more on going through the motions and thought processes of planning and use simple tools like Google Earth or even just hand drawn maps to illustrate things like valley bottom extent, channel characteristics, potential sites of heightened risk, etc. We do have a TA and some other people that can answer some GIS related questions and there are lots of videos on how to do many of the planning steps. I am also providing links to copies of planning reports - please do NOT use these as gospel - we are constantly updating how we do things - the goal is for you to think like a restoration practitioner through the lens of low-tech process-based approaches. 

WATS students will use Worm Creek project site and be expected to use GIS tools and outputs to develop their plans. We will provide a set of riverscapes model outputs for the Worm Creek site (and all of the Middle Bear River in souther ID and northern UT) and throughout the class we will demonstrate and provide links to other tools and data sources online to help you develop your plan.

For next week (Feb 6th - day before class) you should develop a DRAFT of the first two steps in a MODIFIED NRCS Phase 1 - Collection & Analysis. The DRAFT should include the details on following broad topics:

• Introduction - background and problems
  • Broad management goals and specific outcomes
  • Project location (including a map and google pin location), description, and scope
• Project Setting (Ecoregion, Landuse, Process Regimes [Flow, Sediment, Wood, Beaver/Biological/Ecological]) 

FOR ALL RESOURCES FOR DEVELOPING YOUR REPORT 

See Final Project Page here.