Background
The Idaho Chapter of The Nature Conservancy is working with public and private land management partners to develop a set of tools, the Landscape Toolbox, which enable better rangeland management at landscape scales by integrating existing and emerging field, remote sensing, and landscape scenario modeling methods for rangeland assessment, monitoring, and planning.
Assessment & Monitoring
The multi-scale landscape assessment component helps users match field and remote-sensing methods and technologies to scale-specific management questions, provides guidance on using the information, and determines ecologically-relevant scale from remotely-sensed imagery.
Cumulative Analysis
The cumulative landscape and restoration analysis component will help uses investigate how dynamic landscapes may change over time under different management and disturbance scenarios.
Training & Support
Understanding how to implement tools and concepts of the Landscape Toolbox hinges on effective and easy-to-understand training, documentation and support. The Toolbox Training page has online videos and tutorials for many Toolbox components, and a schedule of live web-based training workshops.