Work Examples

Community-centered action alternative submitted to the Tongass Forest Plan Revision. Organizes the forest into three management areas (Community Accessible, Remote with Roads, Remote without Roads) over a cross-cutting Watershed Conservation Lands layer, with fine-watershed accountability on public scorecards, ANILCA Title VIII subsistence and Tribal sovereignty as baseline constraints, and a restoration-first program that produces wood as a co-product while rebuilding fish passage, road hydrology, and deer winter range. Prepared for Forest Service planners, Tribal governments, ANCSA corporations, timber operators, conservation partners, and Southeast Alaska residents. Five-page summary. Full draft.

 Interactive, single-file web tool for the Tongass Forest Plan Revision that lets a reader build their own management alternative and see the triple-bottom-line result. Sliders set old-growth and young-growth harvest, stream buffers, restoration, and the road program, and the panels return timber volume and economics, salmon and watershed condition, deer and subsistence, recreation, regional jobs, and the fifteen-year budget, with the outcome matched to the closest of four reference alternatives. Every cost and benefit figure is exposed with its source and evidentiary state, old-growth volume runs through an economic screen that separates what can sell from headline inventory, and natural-capital results stay in native units. Watershed data is prepared upstream in ArcGIS and ArcPy. Prepared for Forest Service planners, Tribal governments, partners, and Southeast Alaska residents. Build your own alternative. 

LiDAR-based inventory and watershed-scale condition assessment across 165,000 acres and 12 watersheds in Keex' Kwáan, spanning Forest Service, Sealaska, Kake Tribal Corporation, land trust, state and city lands. Roads, forests, and streams mapped from 2019 LiDAR and ground-truthed by a local field crew through 2024, then ranked by watershed against eight indicators covering road density, stream crossings, old-growth and deer winter habitat loss, young growth thinning and timber opportunity, and salmon habitat above road crossings. Paired with priorities gathered at community meetings in Kake, with data and maps published on ArcGIS Online for partner use in project planning. Full draft.

A 205,000-acre resource assessment and management plan for northern Chichagof Island, produced by an alliance of Hoonah Indian Association, the City of Hoonah, Sealaska, Huna Totem, The Nature Conservancy, ADF&G, and the Forest Service with NRCS funding. LiDAR and aerial photography combined with field data collected by a locally hired and mentored crew: road condition surveys, more than 2,400 culverts measured for blockage and fish passage, stream habitat and electrofishing, vegetation plots, deer pellet DNA sampling for mark-recapture, and household subsistence surveys of 65 randomly selected homes. Work organized around five core areas: forests and shrub communities, roads and hydrology, fish, deer, and subsistence. Salmon habitat intrinsic potential models were developed and field-validated for pink, chum, and coho. Results carry into an 80-year vision and 5-year action plan, a Triple Bottom Line decision framework, partner-derived success metrics, and watershed-by-watershed project opportunities for stream, road, bridge, and habitat improvement across six watersheds. Technical report. Public facing report. 

A 71-page reference on ecological restoration of Southeast Alaska forests, built from literature review, expert interviews, GIS analysis, and ground-truthing across the region. Covers the silvicultural toolbox for restoring structural complexity in second growth, with variable density thinning using skips and gaps as the most effective approach, and lays out a strategic planning sequence running from collaboration through ecological assessment, prioritization, watershed restoration design, action plans, and adaptive management. The assessment is a watershed-scale GIS model scoring restoration need against salmon habitat, deer winter habitat, karst forest integrity, endemic species risk, landscape connectivity, and gaps in the Tongass Land Management Plan conservation strategy, with weights adjustable by a collaborative group. Written for resource managers, community and tribal leaders, conservationists, and contractors. Peer reviewed. Full draft.