This class provides the framework and skills to understand renewable resource conditions and apply information to land management decisions through implementing a monitoring program which is consistent with the BLM Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring (AIM) Strategy. The target audience for this course includes BLM managers and resource staff who will be leading AIM efforts and/or using AIM data for decision-making.
- Dates: To be determined for late 2022 and early 2023
- Times: To be determined
- Location: Online
- Registration: Not yet available
More information: Videos from the 2020 and 2021 Project Leads training:
- Introduction to AIM
- AIM Implementation: A Standardized Approach for Monitoring
- ESR Example
- Monitoring Objectives
- Benchmarks
- Monitoring Design
- Indicators and Methods
- Monitoring Design Worksheet and Revisit Designs
- Introduction to Analysis and Reporting
- Weighted Estimates
- Introduction to Confidence Intervals
- Tools and Timelines
PowerPoint Presentations from the 2022 Project Leads Training:
- Analysis Support and Tools
- From Information to Action: Benchmark and Percent Achieving Desired Conditions
- Developing Management Questions and Monitoring Objectives
- Having Confidence in Your Estimates: Intro to Confidence Intervals
- Indicators and Methods
- Information to Action: Intro to Analysis and Reporting
- Monitoring Design: Sample Frame, Reporting Units, and Stratification
- Revisit Designs and Filling out a Monitoring Design Worksheet
- Weighted Estimates