Mendocino Coast Cooperative Weed Management Area

Information Management Workgroup Brief Presentation

• Accomplishments
  1. Last Information Management Workgroup meeting held on June 6, 2006
  2. Spring Roadside Weed Survey
     • [completed] surveys,
     • [data] entered and posted, in part, on website
     • [distribution maps] posted.
  3. Installed new [chatroom] software that allows you to save a transcript of the session.
  4. Purchased GPS unit.
  5. MCWMA intern Dan Young to develop new website features, including [sitemap] and [image galleries].
  6. Volunteer Alice Miller developed sensitive species survey guidelines [sensitive species survey guidelines].
  7. IM Workgroup also finalised the [reconaissance protocol] [baseline survey guidelines] and [monitoring guidelines]
  8. [Oregon Noxious Weed Review] mostly completed
• Plans
  1. Convert remainder of spreadsheets currently being used to store data into MySQL databases with online forms for data entry.
  2. Implement the Fall/Winter roadside surveys with volunteers.
  3. Conduct weed surveys for Noyo/Big River Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Plan.
• Needs (if you can assist with any of these items, please contact Tara Athan at coord@mcwma.org)
  1. Comments on and assistancance in developing specifics of Sensitive Species Survey Guidelines.
  2. Additional weed distribution information requested.
  3. Add layers from experts meeting, State Parks, JDSF and Cape Ivy map from Mona Robinson to online maps.