Oak Management Pathway
Step 4.1: Our Approach
ECOP’s monitoring approach
ECOP is standardizing the way partners collect data about oak on public and private lands and is centralizing data management. The resulting information will help partners understand the effectiveness of management decisions and characterize conditions and trends of oak systems across the region over time. Much of the existing research and monitoring of oak systems has taken place west of the Cascades, so monitoring and research is a crucial part of the conservation effort in the East Cascades.
Identify and prioritize management questions and opportunities to explore each through monitoring and research.
Build monitoring protocols to evaluate restoration project effectiveness and inform key management uncertainties at multiple scales.
Perform data analysis tailored to strategic restoration objectives depending on partner goals.
Share results with partners through meetings and tours, and with the public through ECOP’s website and YouTube channel.
Maintain data in a centralized database and provide access to partners for future landscape scale analysis, and conservation planning by the partnership.
You can learn more about our monitoring approach by reading ECOP’s Restoration Project Effectiveness Monitoring Plan.