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IFCAE Project: Mapping Socio-Ecological Meanings of Olympic Peninsula Landscapes |
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| Timeframe: | 01/1/09 - 09/30/09 |
| Investigators: | Rebecca McLain, |
| Administration: | Institute for Culture and Ecology |
| Funding: | Joint Venture Agreement with U.S. Forest Service |
| Project Overview: | |
| Environmental planners often need demographic, socioeconomic, and recreation use data to plan and predict public uses of forests. Yet, there are few tools that help planners integrate how various groups and forest users value and use natural resources in national forests or across multiple land ownerships or management jurisdictions. The U.S. Forest Service and IFCAE have entered into a joint venture agreement to identify and build on existing spatial models to provide a socio-ecological map data layer that will allow managers to understand the complex and dynamic interactions of people and forests across a region. In Phase I of this project, IFCAE and Forest Service scientists will collaborate in reviewing the literature on the use of spatial models to map socio-cultural data. Based on this review, we will develop a research guide for mapping human use systems on a regional scale. | |