Overview

Current Study Area

The FRAME, Framing Research in support of Adaptive Management of Ecosystems, Project is a partnership among the US Geological Survey, National park Service, Bureau of Land Management, US Forest Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Colorado State University, Prescott College, and the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research and the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (CPCESU) at Northern Arizona University.

Mission

The goal of the FRAME Project is to more effectively link science to the needs of natural resource management on public lands. The FRAME Project’s focus is to develop collaborative approaches to address natural resource management issues using modeling as a tool to aid resource management planning. Key to the success of the collaborative modeling approach is a continuous engagement of resource managers, physical modelers, and scientific experts, from the initial ‘framing’ of the issues within the resource management decision context, to developing the appropriate physical models to address these issues.