Project Database

Using LiDAR Data to Assess Forest Structure and Fuels at Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve and at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area

Project ID: P15AC01626 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,500 Total Funding: $20,500 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the University of Washington (UW) to explore methods for using airborne LiDAR data to improve existing regional fuel model mapping with additional information on forest overstory characteristics. NPS and UW will…

August 30, 2021

Using LiDAR to Determine the Relationship between Fire History and Forest Structure at Crater Lake National Park

Project ID: J8W07110013 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $30,000 Total Funding: $40,208 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: There is a strong need at Crater Lake National Park and other forested areas to quantify long-term effects of fire on forest structure across broad spatial scales to facilitate the development and evaluation of fire management objectives. The goal of this collaborative project…

Using LiDAR to Guide Forest Restoration in the Crater Lake Panhandle

Project ID: P14AC01708 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $30,000 Total Funding: $30,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the University of Washington (UW) to merge field-based methods with remotely sensed LiDAR data of the Panhandle area of Crater Lake National Park (CRLA) to prioritize areas for forest restoration and…

Using Satellite Data to Detect Changes in Glaciers in the Washington Cascades

Project ID: P15AC00989 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $12,000 Total Funding: $55,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: This is a collaborative project between the National Park Service (NPS) and the University of Washington to use new satellite data to assess changes in several glaciers in North Cascades National Park (NOCA). Recent investigations have shown that the glaciers in the Washington…

Using Tree Rings to Understand the Impacts of Climate Change in Interior Alaska

Project ID: 14-JV-11261919-030 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $49,858 Total Funding: $540,551 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Analyze tree cores collected on FIA plots for long term trends in growth and stable carbon isotope composition (d13C). The greatest warming in North America over the past 50 years has occurred in interior Alaska. This warming appears to be driving large scale…

Validation of Stream Visual Assessment Protocol-2

Project ID: 68-3A75-4-101-21 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $80,000 Total Funding: $80,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Field evaluations of revisions proposed to the NRCS Stream Visual Assessment Protocol.

Vegetation Classification and Mapping at Lava Beds National Monument and Crater Lake National Park

Project ID: J8W07110012 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $178,820 Total Funding: $816,279 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Klamath Network comprises six National Park Service (NPS) units in southern Oregon and northern California, including Crater Lake National Park (CRLA), Lava Beds National Monument (LABE), and Oregon Caves National Monument (ORCA). The Klamath Network Inventory & Monitoring Program (KLMN I&M) is…

Vegetation Classification Integration

Project ID: NR253A750023C009 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $450,000 Total Funding: $450,000 [project-data-part-2] Alternative Project Title: Ecological Classification Systems Revamp Portland State University Subrecipient Award Number: DB096A-A Abstract:  The Oregon Biodiversity Information Center at the Institute for Natural Resources at Portland State University (ORBIC) will work with Oregon State University and NRCS on an integration of national level…

January 28, 2025

Vegetation mapping at Mount Rainier National Park

Project ID: J8W07080007 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $79,648 Total Funding: $169,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The Institute for Natural Resources (INR) will collaboratively develop a vegetation map of Mount Rainier National Park with the North Coast and Cascades Network. The INR team will use automated image segmentation and classification techniques in combination with traditional vegetation mapping techniques to…

August 30, 2021

Vegetation Mapping at North Cascades National Park

Project ID: P12AC10432 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $17,072 Total Funding: $393,349 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Staff at Portland State University will collaboratively develop a vegetation map of North Cascades National Park with the North Coast and Cascades Network. They will use automated image segmentation and classification techniques in combination with traditional vegetation mapping techniques to develop the map….

Vegetation Mapping at Olympic National Park

Project ID: J8W07100012 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $59,500 Total Funding: $377,275 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Staff at Portland State University will collaboratively develop a vegetation map of Olympic National Park with the North Coast and Cascades Network. They will use automated image segmentation and classification techniques in combination with traditional vegetation mapping techniques to develop the map. They…

Vegetation Mapping for the Upper Columbia Basin Network

Project ID: J9W88050004 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $20,000 Total Funding: $20,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The work proposed under this task agreement will complete vegetation mapping in two UCBN parks (Big Hole NB and Whitman Mission NHS) using ASTER satellite data. The objectives of this project are: (1) To determine the current (~2000) spatial distribution and size of…

Vegetation Measurements and Analysis of the Density Management Study

Project ID: HAF033F05 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $164,988 Total Funding: $1,564,462 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The DMS is a response to a lack of information required to implement the Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl, The Northwest Forest Plan, and the BLM’s Resource management Plans. The proposed work has three benefits: 1) document vegetative dynamics and average…

Vegetation Monitoring Site Reconnaissance, Monumenting, and Description in the Klamath Network Parks

Project ID: J8W07100039 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $77,340 Total Funding: $93,155 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The implementation of long-term vegetation monitoring requires that sampling sites be located in places that are safe and feasible for sampling. Site reconnaissance, monumenting (i.e., creating permanent markers), and descriptions of sampling sites at six National Park Service (NPS) units will be an…

Vegetation Restoration and Fuels Treatments at Lava Beds National Monument

Project ID: P25AC00571 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $47,000 Total Funding: $47,000 [project-data-part-2] Alternative Project Title: Post-Fire Restoration of Sagebrush Steppe Using Native Plant Materials Abstract:  Performance Goals – This agreement will support Lava Beds National Monument’s ongoing post-fire rehabilitation efforts to restore native forbs, grasses, and shrubs to the landscape and reduce invasive plant species presence to…

December 3, 2025

Vessel Based Marine Mammal Surveys in Puget Sound Washington

Project ID: N62473-21-2-0003 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $210,958 Total Funding: $422,373 [project-data-part-2] Abstract:

July 15, 2023

Virtual Research and Learning Centers Network Management

Project ID: P12AC11995 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $24,000 Total Funding: $24,000 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Staff at Oregon State University (OSU) will collaboratively work with the National Park Service (NPS) Virtual Research Learning Centers (VLRC) network to overse24000e the web development team, to facilitate meetings and decision-making for the VRLC consortium, to provide VRLC with technical development capacity…

August 30, 2021

Visitor Attitudes Toward Management of the Denali Park Road: A Stated Choice Analysis

Project ID: J8W07080014 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $64,545 Total Funding: $64,545 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: Research conducted previously has identified a series of potential indicators and standards of quality for the visitor experience on the Denali Park Road. Indicators were identified in a series of interviews conducted with several types of Denali Park Road users. Standards of quality…

Visitor Management and Carrying Capacity at Cumberland Island National Seashore

Project ID: J8W07080017 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $18,860 Total Funding: $38,809 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The purpose of this project is to gather information that will support application of the Visitor Experience Resources Protection framework to visitor management and carrying capacity decisions at Cumberland Island National Seashore. Principal Investigators from Clemson University and the University of Vermont will…

Visitor Survey Card-Concessions Project (VSC-C)

Project ID: J8W07070033 [project-data-part-1] Initial Funding: $285,743 Total Funding: $285,743 [project-data-part-2] Abstract: The National Park Service (NPS) Visitor Service Project (VSP), part of the University of Idaho Park Studies Unit (PSU) will develop and implement the Visitor Survey Card-Concessions Project (VSC-C) for the NPS to survey selected parks with concession operations through this task agreement….