The monitoring chapter of the report includes an overview of our 2020 to 2022 monitoring progress and accomplishments. There are numerous contributors associated with monitoring implementation of the 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan. Churchill provided an overview of a few components of this chapter.

Change detection monitoring maps disturbance and attributes those disturbances based on the disturbance type. Since 2015, the majority of disturbance in eastern Washington is associated with wildfire. The change detection work focuses on a few of the priority planning areas, including Mill Creek in Northeast Washington. Forest structure can then be evaluated against our landscape evaluation results to help us understand whether or not the landscape is moving towards a more or less resilient condition and historic range of variability. In Mill Creek we are making progress in medium closed and medium open, and creating the conditions for medium open to grow in large open and large moderate.

Another monitoring project is focused on modeling snowpack and streamflow in the Nason Creek priority planning area. The modeling results predict that streamflow will decrease as a result of forest re-growth. Mechanical thinning, prescribed fire, and wildfire can offset declines and increase streamflow by an estimated 5%. The next pilot area will be in the Wenatchee area.

DNR is partnering with University of Washington to study treatment longevity, which varies based on surface and canopy fuels as well as treatment type. Thinning and burning results in more longevity than thinning only.

DNR partnered with Washington State Parks and Resilient Forestry to monitor the Bullfrog Forest Health Project in Palouse to Cascades State Park. Using plots and drones the project evaluated density, composition, large tree retention, spatial variability, among other factors. Data show that treatment goals established in the prescription were met. DNR and Parks will utilize the results to continue to inform on-going forest health work.

See attached slides for additional information.

## Forest Service 10-Year Wildfire Crisis Strategy

Chad Davis, USFS, introduced two new team members associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy that was released earlier this year. In Washington, there are two new team members: Shasta Ferranto and Brian Spradlin. Shasta is based in Seattle and serves as the Regional Wildfire Crisis Lead. Brian is the All-Lands Coordinator serving in the Pacific Northwest Region of the USFS.

As priorities have changed, USFS is seeking to deploy these staff to meet the needs of partners in the state. Shasta’s team is new. The role of the team is to help the investment landscapes in the Crisis Strategy to be successful, which includes the Central Washington Initiative. The team is serving as a liaison to partners in the National Office. The team is also interested in developing tools and data sets. The project is supporting the two existing landscapes: Central Washington and Central Oregon. The team includes a NEPA specialists, public affairs specialist, as well as air quality, fuels, and other specialist areas. Team members sit in different program areas.

There was a news release yesterday for people to share interest in serving on a new advisory committee to update the Northwest Forest Plan. Nominations can be from communities, private sector, public agencies, or anyone else that is interested. The link to learn more is available here.

The additional funding coming to USFS is being invested in the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest as well as through contracts with private industry. Members of FHAC are interested in understanding where funding for the CWI is coming from. The vast majority of funding is from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The Washington