BLM OR-WA Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Strategy Development and Implementation, Spokane District – Resource Management Grant

The benefits of the AIM Strategy to the BLM will be achieved through the implementation of a suite of actions, which include updating policy and guidance documents; integrating monitoring activities, budgets, and performance measures across programs; and developing associated communication tools and training modules. The AIM Strategy will move the BLM toward a new paradigm where core data describing resource condition are digitally collected in the field, stored in spatially enabled databases, managed in an enterprise data architecture environment, analyzed to determine effectiveness of management actions, and shared across BLM offices and interested public.

The overall intent of this project is to develop and implement the AIM Strategy for the BLM Spokane District. The recipient is expected to provide the staffing to collect quantitative and qualitative data associated with vegetation, soils, hydrology and ecosystem processes. This data will be used to generate Land Health Assessments, Standards Determination Documents, restoration monitoring reports and post-fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation monitoring reports, among other uses.