Local or project specific based monitoring assesses the effectiveness of restoration efforts. The monitoring is done to determine if project performance goals and future desired conditions have been achieved. Results from the monitoring are used to better understand restoration success, alter or adapt site management and contribute to our knowledge of wetland recovery techniques. Additionally, some regulatory programs and funding sources require yearly effectiveness monitoring. Site specific monitoring is done by individual landowners, watershed councils, school groups, land trusts, tribes, soil and water conservation districts and federal and state agencies.

Examples of effectiveness monitoring can be found at these sites:

• Coos Watershed Association
• Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board (OWEB) Effectiveness Monitoring

Department of State Lands Effectiveness Monitoring

• Mitigation Monitoring Report Cover
• Mitigation Guidebook
• Mitigation Plan Checklist

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

• Umatilla River Floodplain and Wetlands

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Wetland Restoration Project

• Bandon Marsh National Wildlife Refuge

Effectiveness Monitoring Reports

• Brophy. (2009) Effectiveness Monitoring at Tidal Wetland Restoration and Reference Sites in the Siuslaw River Estuary
• Brophy and van de Wetering. (2012) Ni-les’tun tidal wetland restoration effectiveness monitoring:

  South Slough Reference Site Identification

  Scientists from South Slough National Estuary Reserve are presently in the process of identifying characteristics of tidal reference sites. The data on soils, hydrology, plant associations and change over time at the reference sites can be used in restoration project design. It may be possible to predict future desired conditions with this information, as well as provide a benchmark for assessing the success of projects in tidal wetlands.

  • South Slough Project-Based Monitoring
  

  Habitat map of the Siletz Estuary (courtesy of Oregon State University Libraries' Scanned Maps Collection)
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  Compiled by Heather Stout, Project Manager, Oregon Wetlands Explorer (2009)