MONITORING IMPACTS TO RARE PLANT POPULATIONS FROM RANGE 12 FIRE

• Sponsoring Institution: Other Cooperating Institutions
• Project Status: COMPLETE
• Funding Source: STATE
• Reporting Frequency: Annual
• Accession No.: 1012759
• Project Start Date: Apr 10, 2017
• Project End Date: Jul 30, 2019
• Program Code: [(N/A)]- (N/A)

Project Director
Ewing, K.

Recipient Organization
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON
4333 BROOKLYN AVE NE
SEATTLE,WA 98195

Performing Department
Restoration Ecology and Environmental Horticulture

Non Technical Summary
he Range 12 Fire at the Hanford Reach National Monument burned 176,600 acres in 2016, including riparian and shrub-steppe habitat high concentrations of rare and endemic plants. Under this project, the University of Washington's Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation will assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with an assessment of the impacts of the wildfire on rare plant populations and and evaluate what restoration activities are recommended to stabilize and restore them.

Animal Health Component

100%

Research Effort Categories

Basic

(N/A)

Applied

100%

Developmental

(N/A)

Classification

Knowledge Area (KA)	Subject of Investigation (SOI)	Field of Science (FOS)	Percent
136	0860	1070	100%

Knowledge Area
136 - Conservation of Biological Diversity;

Subject Of Investigation
0860 - Endangered species;

Field Of Science
1070 - Ecology;

Keywords

rare species

indigenous species

plant damage

biological assessment

environmental monitoring

natural resource management

ecological restoration

biodiversity

astragalus

erigeron

cryptantha

oenothera

nicotiana attenuata

camissonia

population density

inventories

habitat destruction

global positioning systems

fire science and management

washington

Goals / Objectives
The Range 12 Fire at the Hanford Reach National Monument burned 176,600 acres in 2016, including riparian and shrub-steppe habitat high concentrations of rare and endemic plants. Under this project, the University of Washington's Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation will assist the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service with an assessment of the impacts of the wildfire on rare plant populations and and evaluate what restoration activities are recommended to stabilize and restore them.

Project Methods
The University of Washington's Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation (Rare Care) will provide science based monitoring and assessment of impacts to rare plant species within the fire area of the Range 12 fire. Eight species of plants previously identified as having listing status occur wtithin the fire area. These include:1. Astragalus columbianus (Columbia milk-vetch)2. Erigeron piperianus (Piper's daisy)3. Cryptantha spiculifera (Snake River cryptantha)4. Oenothera caespitosa ssp. caespitosa (cespitose evening-primrose)5. Nicotiana attenuata (coyote tobacco)6. Eremothera pygmaea (syn. Camissonia pygmaea) (dwarf evening-primrose)7. Cryptantha scoparia (miner's candle)8. Eremothera minor (syn. Camissonia minor) (small-flower evening-primrose).Rare Care will locate records for rare plant survey work and determine most recent survey that had species presence and results/population for the most recent pre-fire survey. We will locate and identify rare plants, during appropriate season/phenology of plant species and conduct assessment of the status of populations.

Progress 04/10/17 to 07/30/19

Outputs
Target Audience: Nothing Reported Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Nothing Reported How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest? Nothing Reported What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? We reported on this US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) award as a state project in REEport simply so that it would appear in our financial report templates. The final progress report submitted to the sponsor is available upon request.

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