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BIENNIAL LAND MANAGEMENT OPERATIONAL REPORT<br />

GOAL TABLES KEY<br />

GOAL: Habitat Restoration and Improvement<br />

Column 3: This is intended to capture the total number <strong>of</strong> acres <strong>of</strong> FNAI natural<br />

communities on a unit (both historical coverage and currently intact)<br />

which are fire dependent. There could be exceptions where major habitat<br />

alterations have occurred that have changed an area that was historically<br />

not a fire dependent natural community to one that is now a fire<br />

dependant community. For example, extreme hydrology alterations could<br />

dry non-fire dependent wetlands enough so that they would readily burn.<br />

These acres should be included as well in the burnable total. In addition<br />

this should include acres that have been disturbed and are managed with<br />

prescribed fire such as pastures and pine plantations.<br />

Column 4: Total number acres that the agency burned within the management unit<br />

during the first year <strong>of</strong> the biennial reporting period. This does not<br />

include wildfire acreage.<br />

Column 5: Total number acres that the agency burned within the management unit<br />

during the second year <strong>of</strong> the biennial reporting period. This does not<br />

include wildfire acreage.<br />

Column 6: Fire dependent natural communities in all units should have a<br />

recommended fire return interval in the approved management plan. This<br />

cell and the following cell are meant to capture the number <strong>of</strong> acres within<br />

each unit that are within the appropriate fire return interval. For<br />

example, literature suggests that sandhill communities have a maximum<br />

fire return interval <strong>of</strong> three years to maintain the function <strong>of</strong> the natural<br />

community. The entry for Ha-4 would then be the total number <strong>of</strong> acres<br />

<strong>of</strong> sandhill (if you only had sandhill on the unit) that had been burned<br />

between Jul 1, 2006 and June 30, 2009.<br />

Column 7: See definition for Ha-4. The dates in the example would be Jul 1, 2008<br />

and June 30, 2010.<br />

Column 8: Total number <strong>of</strong> acres within the management unit that require<br />

restoration to reclaim ecological function <strong>of</strong> the natural communities.<br />

Column 9: The number <strong>of</strong> acres within the management unit where any <strong>of</strong> the<br />

following phases <strong>of</strong> restoration are underway: planning/design, executing,<br />

evaluating and reporting.<br />

Column 10: The total numbers <strong>of</strong> acres within the management unit that have been<br />

restored.<br />

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