March 3, 2005

Yukon Fish Modelling Project

In 2005 we won the first of several projects with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans to develop a fish habitat model for every stream in the Yukon territory. ESSA developed an unprecedented GIS dataset and model logic that simulates the behaviour of fish […]
January 3, 2005

Sacramento River Flows Study & the Sacramento river Ecological Flows Tool (SacEFT)

Starting in 1989, The Nature Conservancy and its partners began to develop a strategy for ecosystem restoration on the Sacramento River, California. Initially focused on riparian revegetation, the plan moved to a study of how Shasta and Keswick Dams could be operated to better incorporate […]
December 3, 2004

Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project (LANDFIRE)

LANDFIRE is National interagency project in the US producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, and fire regimes across the United States. As part of LANDFIRE, VDDT is used for modeling the historic range of variability in fire regimes for the […]
December 3, 2004

Adaptive Forest Management

In 2004 we were chosen by the Washington-based NCSSF (National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry) to study the factors that enable successful adaptive forest management (AM) and how these factors might vary across organizations and at different scales. We gleaned insights from each of […]
May 3, 2004

Marc Nelitz joins ESSA

Marc Nelitz joins ESSA