Natural Resources Information Council Annual Conference Sunday, August 10, 2008 Janine Salwasser Oregon State University Libraries Informing Natural Resource Issues with the Oregon Explorer

What is the Oregon Explorer? Natural Resources Digital Library Place-based resource Supports informed natural resource decision-making www.oregonexplorer.info

Natural Resources Digital Library

Place-based resource

Supports informed natural resource decision-making

Oregon Explorer Users Natural resource decision-makers Watershed council members Soil and water conservation district staff Local planners Extension agents Librarians Agency staff Researchers Educators Students Media staff Citizen volunteers Landowners Interested public

Natural resource decision-makers

Watershed council members

Soil and water conservation district staff

Local planners

Extension agents

Librarians

Agency staff

Researchers

Educators

Students

Media staff

Citizen volunteers

Landowners

Interested public

Oregon Explorer Basin and Topic Portals

Natural Resource Issues addressed by Explorer sites: Land Use Salmon Recovery Wildfire Risk Wildlife Conservation Watershed Restoration

Land Use

Salmon Recovery

Wildfire Risk

Wildlife Conservation

Watershed Restoration

Different issues addressed at various scales

1. Learn about Land Use Issues Through Videos Through Stories

Through landscape visualizations

Through maps and reports for places of interest

2. Learn about Salmon Recovery Issues 1992 2002

Through decision-support tools

Higher priority locations to restore habitat

3. Learn about Wildfire Risk Issues

Through easy and advanced mapping tools

Through archived documents

Through chart and table creation tools

Step 1 : Pick a Statistic

Step 2: Pick where to report

Step 3: View statistics

4. Learn about Wildlife Issues: T&E spp

Current Distributions: Marbled Murrelet

Historic Distributions: Marbled Murrelet

5. Learn about Watershed Restoration Issues

Through personal stories, tools, and data

Learn about critical natural resource issues Browse multi-media stories View data and make custom maps and reports Access archived digital information View photos, and videos Search datasets Download (and soon upload) GIS data Access photos, videos, audio files Contact the experts Submit your resources to the Explorer digital library Give feedback Review of Digital Library Services in the Explorer Series Available for anyone who has high speed Internet access…from work, home, library, etc.

Learn about critical natural resource issues

Browse multi-media stories

View data and make custom maps and reports

Access archived digital information

View photos, and videos

Search datasets

Download (and soon upload) GIS data

Access photos, videos, audio files

Contact the experts

Submit your resources to the Explorer digital library

Give feedback

Oregon Explorer Creators Core Partnership between and Team members with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise Basin and topic portal partners

Core Partnership between and

Team members with diverse backgrounds and areas of expertise

Basin and topic portal partners

New & Potential Natural Resource Issues to be addressed by Oregon Explorer initiated: Wetlands Conservation Wetlands Explorer Community Vitality Rural Communities Explorer Hazard Evaluation Spatial Data Explorer Sustainable Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Explorer proposed: Water quality & quantity Invasive Species Climate Change Habitat Conservation Rural Economic Development Integrated Monitoring Oregon Benchmarks and Key Performance Measures

initiated:

Wetlands Conservation

Wetlands Explorer

Community Vitality

Rural Communities Explorer

Hazard Evaluation

Spatial Data Explorer

Sustainable Agriculture

Sustainable Agriculture Explorer

proposed:

Water quality & quantity

Invasive Species

Climate Change

Habitat Conservation

Rural Economic Development

Integrated Monitoring

Oregon Benchmarks and Key Performance Measures

Questions? For more information, please feel free to contact either of the Oregon Explorer co-managers: Janine Salwasser, OSU Libraries [email_address] Jimmy Kagan, Institute for Natural Resources [email_address]

For more information, please feel free to contact either of the Oregon Explorer co-managers:

Janine Salwasser, OSU Libraries

[email_address]

Jimmy Kagan, Institute for Natural Resources

[email_address]