Ecological monitoring data provides the scientific basis for restoration treatments, such as thinning and prescribed burns, and is critical for adaptive management. Professionally collected and analyzed monitoring data can help answer questions about what works and what doesn’t when forests are managed for a specific outcome such as reducing wildfire risks or increasing wildlife habitat.
If you are using any of our field monitoring guides, we can offer technical support with all the steps in the process. We’d also love for the data you collect according to these protocols to be part of the landscape-level analyses NMFWRI and our SWERI partners run, to better understand SW forest health. Please reach out to us! krmahan@nmhu.edu
