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- Read the Lesson Description
- Do Modules 3.1 through 3.3 in Linear Order
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Lesson 3 Description |
Planning of AR Projects
Once restoration goals are developed, organizational steps are created as
a plan of attack. Because actual implementation of the AR plan goes
far beyond the technical realm into the socio – economic – political
arena, the planning process will be complicated. It must involve the
technical designers, affected parties (property owners and management
agencies) and interested parties (resource users) as well. At
this stage, issues of scale will be decided, i.e., addressing the problem
at landscape, stream corridor, or reach scale…or usually some combination of
these. Technical and non-technical constraints alike must be
considered in the planning phase.
AR Project planning also includes development of project alternatives…
alternate approaches to system restoration (after all, we've got to be
realistic.). An AR plan should
avoid the pitfall of single-purpose objectives, where an over-arching
issue drives the whole restoration process (Think back to a few of those
we've reviewed over the past several weeks.). These single purpose
restorations often fail because of either 1) ecological illogic, or 2)
rapid loss of support (administrative, public, or political). Project planning is the time to
establish a comparative system(s) for post project evaluation (i.e.
post-audit)
and to establish evaluative criteria.
As we
review several AR projects in this lesson, look for essential elements or
components of
a well-designed plan:
 | Problem identification |
| Environmental assessment and the critical step
identifying principal controlling factors in the system...ecologic
pivot points. We identify those ecologic pivot points in
composing an ecological model, well, that's what we're doing here,
composing a model of those key points which must be restored. |
| QA/QC behind the Environmental Assessment |
| Goal setting |
| Knowledge of the NRV |
| Ecological compatibility between goals and the NRV |
| Economic and social compatibility between goals and the region |
| Alternative goals |
| Restoration design. Notice how many steps
precede design...yet how many projects jump right to 'design.'? |
| Restoration implementation |
| Plan evaluation (post-audit) |
It is the job of a restoration plan designer and
implementer throughout the whole process to keep foremost in their
thinking guiding principles of aquatic restoration. The above
checklist helps. For a
time-proven consensus statement of these principles, check out:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/restore/principles.html
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