# Presentation: 564860

## ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORINGAT EDWARDS AFBEnvironmental Management

- Dr. Danny C. Reinke
- TYBRIN, Corporation

## The Natural Edwards AFB

**The Natural Edwards AFB**

## Types of Monitoring

- Compliance: Has the contract for restoration work been completed as agreed?
- Efficacy: Has the work produced the intended change in particular conditions?
- Validation: Has restoration achieved the overarching goals of reversing the decline in DT numbers/increasing DT abundance?

## Monitoring - Not Just an Academic Exercise

- Helps us learn which management practices work and which do not
- Will provide evidence of the benefits of restoration work
- Will provide information reflecting increase, decrease, or no change
- Insures compliance with BOs
- Is an essential aspect of adaptive management

##  True Monitoring Requires A Sound Scientific Base

- Monitoring is not the same as mere data collection
- Must be based on scientifically valid methodologies
- Must serve objectives of sound quantitative plan

## Area of Influence Map

**Lancaster**

**Palmdale**

**Tehachapi**

**California City**

**Inyokern**

**Bakersfield**

**Santa Clarita**

**Mojave**

**Barstow**

**Adelanto**

**Victorville**

**San Bernardino**

**Rosamond**

**75 miles**

**CALIFORNIA**

**NEVADA**

**Los Angeles**

**North Edwards**

**Ridgecrest**

## Edwards AFB,

- Figure 2-1

**Edwards AFB,**
**California**
**Vicinity Map**

**KEY MAP**

**Lancaster**

**Palmdale**

**Rosamond**

**California City**

**Boron**

**Adelanto**

**Mojave**

**North**
**Edwards**

**58**

**395**

**Tehachapi**

**Santa Clarita**

**Barstow**

**Apple**
**Valley**

**Victorville**

**Lake**
**Los Angeles**

**120th St E**

## EDWARDS TODAY. . .

**BASE**

**WEST RANGE**

**PB-6 RANGE**

**MAIN**

**FAMILY**

**HOUSING**

**NASA**

**ROSAMOND**

**DRY LAKEBED**

**ROGERS**

**DRY**

**LAKEBED**

**PHILLIPS**

**LAB**

**NORTH**

**BASE**

**SOUTH**

**BASE**

**EAST RANGE**

**D.C.**

**DULLES INTL.**

**AIRPORT**

**HERNDON**

**FAIRFAX**

**FALLS**

**CHURCH**

**PARK**

**ANDREWS**

**AIR FORCE**

**BASE**

**GREENBELT**

**MILES**

**0**

**5**

**10**

**MOJAVE**

**LANCASTER**

**PALMDALE**

***EDWARDS TODAY. . .***
***	******	******Relative Size***

***ROSAMOND***

**Notes:**
  Emphasize the vast land mass
  remoteness is good from a security perspective
  Emphasize remoteness from life's essentials
  40 minutes form major population centers
  As military presence diminishes we must protect the quality of life for our members who live on the installation

## Even in the Desert!

***Even in the Desert!***

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

**Edwards AFB Approach****Monitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info**

- MODIFY DATA
- GATHERING

- PREDICTIVE MODELS,
- MAPS, RESTORAION
- EFFORTS,
- EVALUATION OF
- TECHNIQUES,
- ETC

- DEVELOP TOOLS
- BASED ON
- HISTORIC LAND
- USE, VEGETATION
- CHANGES, ETC

- MONITORING OF VITAL SIGN
- KEY INDICATIORS

- IDENTIFY VITAL
- SIGN INDICATORS

- REMOTE SENSING

- FIELD METHODS

- ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
- DECISION SUPPORT

- STEP 2

- STEP 3

- STEP 4

- STEP 5

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

## ITAM - GIS Core Layers By Type

**General**
- Installation Boundary
- Political Boundary
- County Boundary
- City Boundary
- Zoning Boundary
- Recreation Areas
- Roads
- Roads by Type
- Roads with bridge class
- Culverts with classification
- Railroads
- Number of Rail Spurs
- Number of Cars per Spur
- Firebreaks
- Firebreaks surface Type
- Firebreak widths
- Firebreak Maintenance
- Aerial Photography
- Horizontal Control Points
- Grid Scale
- UTM Grid
- Contours
- Digital Elevation Model

**Environmental**
- Ag-Leasing
- Soils
- Surface Hydrology
- Surface Streams/Rivers
- Surface Lakes
- Surface Wetlands
- Vegetation Cover
- Endangered Species Sites
- Endangered Species Type
- Erosion Control Structures
- LRAM Projects
- LRAM Type
- Archeological Sites
- Cultural Sites
- Cemeteries
- LCTA Plot Sites
- LCTA Plot Type
- LCTA Monitoring Plots

## ITAM - GIS Core Layers By Type

- DZ/LZ/PZ
- OP Lines of Visibility
- OP Linked to Fire Points
- Air Corridors
- No Overflight Areas
- MOAs
**Public Works**
- Towers/Antennas
- Towers/Antennas Heights
- Utility/Powerlines
- Utility/Powerline Heights
- Utility/Powerline Depth
**EXAMPLES -FOLLOW**

**Training Examples**
- Range/Training Facilities
- Facility Category Group (FCG) Description
- Category Code
- Category Code Description
- Number of Lanes
- Left/Right Firing Limits
- Safety Fans/SDZ
- Artillery/Mortar Positions
- FP Munitions Acceptable
- FP Survey Points
- Training Area Boundaries
- Land Navigation Courses
- Hardened Training Sites
- Prepared Field POL Sites
- Dudded Impact Areas
- Non-Dudded Impact Areas
- Non-Dudded Buffer Zones
- Stream Crossings  (STC) /Fords
- STC Unimproved

**ITAM - GIS Core Layers By Type**

## Air Quality Districts 

- Hwy 14

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 395

- Air Quality Districts

## Desert Tortoise Critical Habitat

- Hwy 14

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 395

- Int-5

- Rt. 62

- Rt. 95

- Rt. 10

- Rt. 15

- California

**Nevada**

- California

- Arizona

- Arizona

**Nevada**

## Regional Desert Tortoise Critical Habitat

## Regional Vegetation Types

**13**

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**13**

**12**

**12**

**12**

**3**

**3**

**3**

**3**

**13**

**13**

**13**

**13**

**4**

**2**

**11**

**1**

**3**

**4**

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## Edwards AFB Detailed Vegetation Map

**Edwards AFB Detailed Vegetation Map**

## Plant Species of Concern

## Rare and Sensitive Habitats

- Rosamond Blvd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Rich Rd

- Mercury Blvd

- Hwy 14

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 395

## Floodprone Areas

- Rosamond Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Mojave Blvd

- Rich Rd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 14

## Surface Water Drainage Basins (Watersheds)

**S**

**A**

**J**

**N**

**Q**

**I**

**F**

**P**

**G**

**C**

**B**

**O**

**H**

**D**

**E**

**K**

**L**

**M**

**R**

- A  Mojave-Soledad Mountain          H  Buckhorn Lake Sink          O  El Mirage-Leuhman Ridge
- B  Tropico Hills-Rosamond Hills     I   Big Rock Wash N  Boron   P  Kramer Junction
- C  Rosamond Hills-Bissell Hills       J   Rogers Lake Sink               Q  Haystack Buttes
- D  Oak Creek-Cottonwood Creek    K  Castle Butte                        R  Red Buttes-Shadow   Mountain
- E  Fairmont                                       L  Peerless Valley                   S  Muroc Junction
- F  Rosamond Lake Sink                   M  Randsburg                         T  Portal Ridge-Amargosa
- G  Little Rock Creek                        N  Boron                                     Creek-Palmdale Ditch

**T**

- Lancaster Blvd

- Rosamond
- Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Rich Rd

**Watersheds**

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 14

-                    Drainage Divide

## 20-foot Contour Interval

**20-foot Contour Interval**

**ROSAMOND BLVD**

**LANCASTER BLVD**

**RICH RD**

**MERCURY BLVD**

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

## Desert Tortoise Corrected Sign Density

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 14

- Hwy 58

- Rosamond Blvd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Rich Rd

## Aerial Photographs of Edwards AFB

- Aerial Photographs of Edwards AFB

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

- FIELD METHODS

-  Extensive use of GIS
-  Many inventories and surveys
-  Lots of raw data
-  Analysis – actively working

## Long-term Monitoring Plots (60)

- Rosamond Blvd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Rich Rd

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 14

**12**

**19**

**27**

**20**

**28**

**32**

**33**

**34**

**39**

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**8**

**21**

**13**

**51**

**57**

**58**

**55**

**60**

**59**

**56**

**52**

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**48**

**45**

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**42**

**40**

**35**

**29**

**23**

**22**

**16**

**14**

**9**

**1**

**2**

**11**

**10**

**17**

**25**

**36**

**37**

**41**

**24**

**4**

**3**

**15**

**18**

**5**

**6**

**26**

**30**

**31**

**38**

**Long-term Monitoring Plots (60)**

**49**

**46**

**47**

**50**

**44**

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

- Changing where and what we
- 	look at
- Provides rational basis for decisions
- Helps support funding requests
- Helps define projects

## Slop Analysis

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 14

- Hwy 58

- Rosamond Blvd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Rich Rd

**SLOPE ANALYSIS**
**          ****< 1%**
**          ****1-5%**
**          ****6-10%**
**         ****11-20%**
**         ****21+%**

- Figure 4-1. Slop Analysis for Edwards AFB showing the broad flat to gently sloping plains with few sharply raising features.

## Viable Population Areas

- Figure 3-10. Extrapolated Desert Tortoise Total Corrected Sign Showing Viable Populations

## Management Areas

**A**

**A**

**E**

**E**

**E**

**D**

**F**

**B**

**C**

- Rosamond Blvd

- Lancaster Blvd

- Mercury Blvd

- Rich Rd

- Hwy 58

- Hwy 395

- Hwy 14

**G**

- Figure 12-1. Management Areas Delineated on Edwards AFB.

## Edwards AFB ApproachMonitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info

**Edwards AFB Approach****Monitoring Data – Adaptive Management Info**

- MODIFY DATA
- COLLECTION
- PROTOCOLS

- PREDICTIVE MODELS,
- MAPS, RESTORAION
- EFFORTS,
- EVALUATION OF
- TECHNIQUES,
- ETC

- DEVELOP TOOLS
- BASED ON
- HISTORIC LAND
- USE, VEGETATION
- CHANGES, ETC

- MONITORING OF VITAL SIGN
- KEY INDICATIORS

- IDENTIFY VITAL
- SIGN INDICATORS

- REMOTE SENSING

- FIELD METHODS

- ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT
- DECISION SUPPORT

- STEP 2

- STEP 3

- STEP 4

- STEP 5

## Army ITAM Program     -     Edwards AFB counterpart

**Land Condition Trend Analysis (LCTA)**
**Training Requirements Integration (TRI)**
**Land Rehabilitation & Maintenance  (LRAM)**
**Environmental Awareness (EA)**

- Long-term plots (60)
- Project driven monitoring
- Restoration/exotic species
- removal program
- Newcomers/contractor
- briefing required for all

**Army ITAM Program**     -     **Edwards AFB counterpart**