Introducing the Forest Plannera project of Ecotrust

Free web-based decision support for landowners in Oregon and Washington

Growth Model Users Group. Vancouver, WA (Nov 11, 2013)

Target Audience & Goals

Audience: Private forest owners in Oregon and Washington with multiple stands and different timing for management entries, likely covering ownership from tens to thousands of acres.

Goal: Provide user-friendly decision support technology to support forest management planning.•Mapping a property, management units, and forest types•Designing customized management scenarios•Visualizing outcomes of scenarios for meaningful comparisons•Needs to be easy to use

5 ecoregions/FVS variants+

2,000 – 6,000 plots in each region from PNW FIA Integrated Database

+Spectrum of 20-30 ecoregion-

appropriate management prescriptions

+Several “offsets” to smooth

harvest over time

= 1,661,800 simulations

A ‘Big Data’ Approach

Mapping

Assigning Forest Types

Nearest Neighbor Matching

User inputs (derived stand geography & stand tables) used to match nearest neighbor in PNW FIA Integrated Database.

Nearest neighbor considers stand age, slope, aspect, elevation, basal area, presence/absence of species and species-diameter cohorts. Currently chooses one IDB plot as match that will stand-in for the user’s stand.

Prescriptions to Scenarios

Visualizing Outcomes

Now in Beta Testing

Launching at Clackamas Tree School (March 22, 2014)

Diving into Climate-FVS

Variable Climate Predictions

RCP 4.5RCP 6.0RCP 8.5

OSU GNN dataset

We can crosswalk (almost) every single GNN pixel’s plot to

hundreds of simulations

we have run

Revisiting ‘Big Data’

Leveraging ‘Big Data’ Capacity

Ecotrust now providing:

•Customized high-throughput modeling (streamlined, custom build from open-fvs)

•Watershed- and regional-scale optimization for multiple objectives (simulated annealing)

•Climate vulnerability assessments and prioritization for monitoring and management

•User-friendly interface for decision support tools

Get in touch to find out more:

Supported by

David Diaz Brent Daviesddiaz@ecotrust.org brent@ecotrust.org(503)467-0821 (503)453-9166