The Olympic Forest Collaborative prioritizes crucial forest health monitoring for all of our projects on the Olympic National Forest. Led by our consulting foresters, Resilient Forestry, our shared goals are to:
- Quantify the outcomes of forest management actions.
- Track how well forest conditions are approaching desired forest health, as designated by our consulting foresters and ecologists.
- Supply the Collaborative and the Olympic National Forest with data that characterizes how each forest stand responds to thinning treatment.
The Collaborative supports pre- and post-treatment monitoring using drone imagery and Lidar analysis to help understand the impacts of restoration thinning and identify the long term vision for healthy forests on the Olympic Peninsula. View our Monitoring and Evaluation protocol below and help us improve our protocol by providing valuable stakeholder input.
Olympic Forest Collaborative Monitoring & Evaluation Protocol
2021 Monitoring & Evaluation Protocol (PDF / Word)
2022 Monitoring Report from Resilient Forestry
Monitoring Achievements
- Completed Pre- and Post-Treatment Monitoring for Queets Corner Thinning Sale
- Completed Post-Treatment Monitoring for H to Z Stewardship Thinning Sale
- Completed Post-Treatment Monitoring for WWB Stewardship Thinning Sale
- Completed Pre-Treatment Monitoring for Humptulips Sale
- Completed Pre-Treatment Monitoring for Big Stew Stewardship Sale
- Completed Pre-Treatment Monitoring for Orchard Loner Stewardship Sale