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Adaptive Management for Low-Tech PBR

Originally, we discussed doing a post-project appraisal next week. Instead, we have decided to have you expand your Design Report to include:

  • As Built Documentation
  • An Adaptive Management Plan, which includes:
    • Conceptual Model & Project Hypotheses (in addition to detailed Design Hypotheses already in your report)
    • Monitoring & Maintenance necessary to test those hypotheses
    • Trigger points for maintenance or next-phase actions (see these figures that you can modify)

You will prepare an Adaptive Beaver Management Plan modeled loosely after the Portugal et al. (2015) Pine Creek Plan in §8:

You may wish to look at examples of adaptive beaver management plans:

  1. Portugal, E., Wheaton, JM., Sorenson, K., Majerova, M., Hunt, B., Bouwes, N. 2015. Hardware Ranch Adaptive Beaver Management Plan. Prepared for Utah Division of Wildlife Resources. Logan, Utah. 26 Pages. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29887.30883
  2. Portugal E., Wheaton, JM., Bouwes, N. 2015. Spring Creek Wetland Area Adaptive Beaver Management Plan. Prepared for Walmart Stores Inc. and the City of Logan. Logan, Utah. 25 Pages. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.2075.3361
  3. Wheaton JM. 2013. Scoping Study and Recommendations for an Adaptive Beaver Management Plan. Prepared for Park City Municipal Corporation. Logan, Utah, 30 pp. DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.903648
  4. Shahverdian SM, Macfarlane WW and Wheaton JM. 2016. MEMO: Westerly Creek Beaver Dam Capacity Assessment: Developing Realistic Expectations for Beaver Dam Activity. Prepared for Muller Engineering Company, Anabranch Solutions, Logan, UT, 24 pp. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34120.93446

Note: The above four reports are all licensed with Creative Commons Attribution licenses, so you can reuse materials in those reports as long as you cite them accordingly (failing to cite appropriately would represent actual plagiarism). Here's what that means:

  • If you use any of the reports as a template for outline, structure, or organization, or if whole sections are copied and edited, include in your acknowledgements a clear explanation of what was copied (i.e. what sections), and whether it was copied and edited, and an explicit citation.
  • If you use any of the figures or tables, in the captions, make sure you include at the end a direct citation (e.g. either "Copied from Figure X from Shahverdian et al. (2016)." or "Figure adapted from Figure X of Shahverdian et al. (2016).")
  • If you wish to quote specific text in any document, provide a specific citation, e.g. Shahverdian et al. (2016, p 16) reported: "Beaver dams are wet."

What to Submit

You should submit an updated version of your report with the above adaptive management and monitoring plan sections added to it. Please submit this plan by Wednesday April 18, so that Peter can provide detailed feedback for you on Friday, April 20.