Objectives: Prepare and publish a soil quality monitoring field guide containing schematic and photographic examples of  visually identifiable soil disturbance classes. The field guide will help soil scientists to consistently identify soil disturbance classes. Click on the link below to review the approved project proposal.  Project Proposal

Project Status: Working with Regional Soil Scientists a schedule of field trips has been identified to obtain photographs of each soil disturbance class. A field trip to Region 5 in November, 2006 was successful in capturing a variety of soil disturbance classes associated with different mechanical equipment including cable-yarding, feller-bunchers, and log forwarders.

Schedule of Upcoming Field Visits in 2007

Region	Time Frame	Location	Topic	Contact
R-8	Feb – March, 2007	Coastal, Piedmont	Mechanical/burn severity	Emanuel Hudson
R-3	May, 2007	Apache-Sitegraves	Mechanical	Penny Luehring
R-2	May/June throughout summer	Front Range	Mechanical	Tommy John
R-1	June, 2007	TBD	Mechanical	Sharon DeHart
R-4	June, 2007	Southern Utah, Cedar City	Variety of equipment	Jeff Bruggink
R-4	September, 2007	Utah, Salt Lake area	Brush hog	Jeff Bruggink
R-6	Mid June-July, 2007	Blue Mountain, Deschutes NF	Mechanical	Steve Howes

Soil Disturbance Classification Form  Use the attached hyperlink to access the soil disturbance classification form. This classification system was developed by Steve Howes and modified to have fewer disturbance classifications. The photo field guide will capture photos of each disturbance class in forests across the country.

R-5 Field Trip Photos (Shasta-Trinity, Lassen, Lake Tahoe Basin)

PowerPoint Presentations

Project Overview Presentation to Regional Soil Scientists (Carolyn Napper)

Progress Towards a Common Approach to Assess... (Mike Curran et al)

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