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To visit or learn more about our forest conservation program, contact Ethan Aumack.
To learn about restoration opportunities across the Kaibab Plateau, consider volunteering with us.
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Our purchase of the Kane & Two Mile Ranches has been an important step in restoration efforts.
Landscape-Scale Planning
We are continually working to build a rigorous science foundation that supports the development of landscape-scale, restoration-based forest management strategies. By partnering with the Lab of Landscape Ecology and Conservation Biology at Northern Arizona University, we have developed maps linking ground-plot data (collected by Trust volunteers and field technicians in 2005) with satellite imagery to describe current forest, fire, wildlife habitat, and invasive non-native species conditions across the Kaibab Plateau. Using these maps and working with Forest Service staff and other stakeholders, we hope to assist in building a collective and ambitious vision for science-based restoration across the Plateau.
This foundational information has already helped facilitate the development of the Kaibab Forest Health Focus, an effort to identify areas across the Kaibab where the objectives of ecological restoration and fire threat reduction might be pursued in a socially viable and ecologically sound manner. We will continue to rely on this information and strong science as we participate in the revision process of the Kaibab National Forest’s Forest Plan and strive to ensure that the results of the Kaibab Forest Health Focus are incorporated into future management of the Plateau.
Monitoring Restoration Activities
Recognizing the critically important role science plays in forest restoration across the Kaibab Plateau, we have initiated and are supporting several research projects at our Kane and Two Mile ranches to develop forest restoration and management strategies. Through collaborative efforts with the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, Northern Arizona University, Arizona Game and Fish, and others, we are monitoring the ecological effects of the Warm Fire, evaluating strategies for restoring mule deer habitat, and tracking the recovery of riparian ecosystems following removal of invasive species. The results of these monitoring efforts will help guide future management on the Kane and Two Mile Ranches and provide an effective example of how science can inform land management actions.
Your donations and membership dues make our research, monitoring, and restoration work in Arizona possible.
