CN-370000-PL263-T807CO2.pdf

DEP Contract No. PL263, Attachment F, Page 1 of 1

TASK ASSIGNMENT CHANGE ORDER FORM

DEP CONTRACT NO. PL263

Task Assignment Number:______807_____________________________ Change Order Number_________2____________

Contractor Contract Manager: __ _Dan Hipes_________________________________ Phone Number: 850-224-8207

DEP Contract Manager: _ Deborah Burr ___________________________ Phone Number: 850-245-2025

DEP Task Manager: ___ ____ Gregg Walker_____ ______________________ Phone Number:_ 850-245-3113

Description of Change (Use additional sheets if necessary):__Due to COVID-19 issues, this task is being adjusted to reduce the amount of field work necessary as statewide travel is not allowed at this time. This will not increase the amount and the______ deliverables and invoice due dates will remain the same. ________________________________________________________

CHANGE IN TASK AMOUNT

Item Fixed Fee Fee Schedule Total

Original Task Amount: $76,586 $76,586 Task amount prior to this change order:

$76,586 $76,586

Net increase/decrease in task amount:

0.00 0.00

Task amount with all change orders:

$76,586 $76,586

CHANGE IN TASK TIME FOR ACTIVITY 2

Original task completion date:_____03/01/2020___________________________ Completion date prior to this change:______ 06/15/2020 ___________________ Net increase/decrease in task period:________106 days____________________ Completion date with all change orders:____06/15/2020____________________

Change In Funding Information:

Org. Code |E.O. |Object Code |Budget Entity |Special Category | Grant # |Year |Amount | |37 | | | | | | |$ |

CONTRACTOR FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

Contract Manager Date Contract Manager Date

Task Manager Date

APPROVED:

Contractual Authority Date _________________________ _____ Budget Representative Date

Contractual Authority Date cc: Procurement Administrator (MS93) Bureau of Finance & Accounting (MS78) - 2 copies

Sheryl Boutin Digitally signed by Sheryl Boutin Date: 2020.05.04 15:50:23 -04'00'

Deborah Burr Digitally signed by Deborah Burr Date: 2020.05.06 10:17:35 -04'00'

Callie DeHaven

Digitally signed by Callie DeHaven Date: 2020.05.06 10:14:07 -04'00'

Gregg Walker Digitally signed by Gregg Walker Date: 2020.05.06 14:00:24 -04'00'

Julie Wammack

Digitally signed by Julie Wammack Date: 2020.05.07 14:31:02 -04'00'

Daniel Hipes Digitally signed by Daniel Hipes Date: 2020.05.07 16:14:22 -04'00'

PL263- Task Assignment 807 Documentation of Reference Natural Communities, Hurricane Michael Recovery Assessment (Phase II), Paynes Prairie Invasive Aquatic Plant Assessment, and Upland Invasive Plant Monitoring in Florida State Parks

This SOW describes four separate tasks to be completed by the Florida Natural Areas Inventory (FNAI) during FY2020 to support land management and storm recovery on Florida State Parks.

Task 1. Documentation of Reference Natural Communities for Selected Natural Communities in Florida

This effort will identify, describe, and quantify the structure and composition of “archetype” examples of three natural communities throughout their geographic range: upland hardwood forest, marl prairie, and depression marsh. The work will be synthesized into a comprehensive guidebook/website describing the natural communities using measurable, quantified standards and will build on the extensive data collected in the OBVM framework used by the FFWCC (https://myfwc.com/conservation/terrestrial/obvm/). It will provide a narrative summary for the natural community types describing the range of desired condition, a range of quantified standards, a comprehensive bibliography, and photographs illustrating the range of conditions.

Methods

FNAI scientists will identify “archetype” examples of three natural communities on public lands and therefore accessible for others to view in the field for comparison. Locations will be documented with GPS, digital reference photos will be taken, and general ecological information characterizing the natural community will be collected. FNAI will then collect quantitative data (following the OBVM standard operating procedures), at randomly generated points within the reference sites and information characterizing the land management history of each site, will be collected and recorded as available.

Staff scientists will also research the literature to find habitat or ecological recommendations for rare, focal, or game species (e.g., scrub jay, gopher tortoise, turkey). This information will be reviewed and incorporated into the written accounts for each natural community as appropriate.

Results will be incorporated into hard copy and web accessible documents. The web products will, build on FNAI’s existing internet map server tools. Users will be able to search by natural community type or geographic region to find locations of the representative natural communities precisely mapped along with photographs, quantitative data, written narratives.

Two sites, each with 30 sampling points, will be identified, field-inspected, documented, and described for each community. Each site will be visited twice by a team of FNAI scientists.

Deliverables:

• A final report, including

1. Trip descriptions

2. Narratives characterizing the ecological condition and management history of each site

3. Detailed, quantitative monitoring data provided as ESRI shapefiles for all sites

4. Statistical summaries of monitoring data

5. Copies of digital natural community photographs;

• URL fnai.org web sites/tools developed through this project.

https://myfwc.com/conservation/terrestrial/obvm/

Details for PL263 - Task Assignment #807 (continued)

Task 2. Long-term hurricane damage assessment and restoration monitoring plan:

To build off the work completed in Phase I (completed in fall 2018 and winter 2019), FNAI will provide a long-term monitoring plan to support the restoration efforts following the impacts of Hurricane Michael.

In partnership with Florida Park Service staff, FNAI will conduct a detailed assessment of the management actions available within the long-term, outline the expected resource impacts from available options, and create an adaptive management framework to support management decisions. A primary focus of this work will be examination of the differences in ground cover vegetation response relative to the intensity of post storm fuel removal efforts.

The primary State Parks included under this Task Assignment are: Florida Caverns State Park, Three River State Park, Torreya State Park, Falling Waters State Park, St. Andrews State Park, T. H. Stone Memorial St. Joseph Peninsula State Park, and Dr. Julian G. Bruce St. George Island State Park; however, this does not preclude the ability to work at any state park affected by Hurricane Michael. Phase II only includes the preservation and restoration of natural resources and is not related to the restoration of cultural resources, facilities, or infrastructure although these features may be taken into consideration when evaluating natural resource management options.

FNAI will create a long-term monitoring plan which will quantitatively document both habitat succession and the effects of restoration actions following hurricane to learn for future catastrophic events. The monitoring plan will also include monitoring recommendations for indicator species, to serve as secondary source to detect ecosystem change. The monitoring plan for habitat succession and its protocols will build off/enhance the plots collected in phase I (FNAI 2019), but be developed so park staff can complete the follow-up monitoring in subsequent years if desired. Plots will include photo monitoring, cover class estimates, and species lists and therefore any three of those can be completed by park staff for in house monitoring in the future. FNAI will conduct and test the monitoring at the end of Phase II to assess the actions of year one and refine the protocols for future use by DEP or others.

At a subset of 20 of the monitoring plots FNAI will trial the use of a ground based laser scanner in characterizing vegetative cover. Laser scanner data will be analyzed, compared with the results of traditional vegetative metrics, and results will be presented to DEP staff to inform them on the technology’s appropriate use in future vegetation monitoring work.

Deliverables:

• Resources data collected from various sources on each park (in excel, shapefile, or other applicable format).

• Monitoring data (submitted as data tables, shapefiles, and/or images). FNAI will monitor all plots established during Phase I approximately one year later to evaluate the changes in the plant community changes and the results of restoration actions (including any burning, salvage, debris removal, clearing, etc.) and also monitor sites where no action occurred.

• Monitoring data (submitted as data tables, shapefiles, and/or images). FNAI will install new plots in bottomland forest, alluvial forest, slope forest, and other communities which were under/not sampled in the rapid assessment of Phase I.

• A long-term monitoring plan, summary of the current state, and analysis of changes to habitat in the Parks one-year post storm will be included in the final report. Copies of any literature cited in the report will also be provided.

• Presentation of results with emphasis on advantages and disadvantages of the laser scanner as a tool for objective vegetation characterization.

Task 3. Exotic plant surveys at select parks and assessment methodology development

In order to assist DRP with development of an improved methodology for quantifying progress in the management of invasive plant species, FNAI will complete four tasks:

1. Document the advantages and shortcomings the current DEP tracking system (NRTS) by interviewing the six members of the DRP Invasive Plants Coordinators group as well as state wide managers. The interviews will assess the NRTS protocol in terms of data standardization and utility as well as time and training requirements.

2. Analyze current NRTS data, report on any spatial and temporal patterns observed, and discuss their possible causes.

3. Conduct a review of published literature documenting methods used in quantifying invasive plant cover and abundance along with a discussion of the applicability of well tested methods to Florida Parks.

4. Develop a pilot sampling protocol including draft digital field data collection forms

Deliverables:

• Report including staff interview findings, NRTS data analysis and discussion, and literature review

• Sampling protocol including template file geodatabase with field data collection forms in ESRI

Collector/Survey123 format

Task 4. Paynes Prairie Invasive Aquatic Plant Assessment

FNAI will conduct sampling for four aquatic plant species (Cuban bulrush (Oxycaryum cubense), Water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes), Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), and Peruvian primrose willow (Ludwigia peruviana) on Paynes Prairie as part of an interagency effort to minimize the negative impacts of invasive plants on Snail Kite foraging success. The sampling area will be the portion of the Prairie to the east of interstate I-75 (Fig. 1; approximately 11,500 acres) The area will be populated with contiguous 50m hexagonal grid cells with an internal radius of 50 meters. FNAI staff will travel by airboat (airboat and driver to be provided at no cost by cooperating agency) to the center point of a grid where the Daubenmire cover classes for each of the four focal species will be visually estimated and recorded. The first day of sampling will be used as a pilot to determine the density of grid cells which will be feasible to visit to ensure complete coverage and uniform sample density for the remainder of the sample. Based on the feasible sampling rate determined on this first day, staff will select a regular cell sampling pattern (e.g. every 3rd cell, every other row of cells, etc) that will be used for the remainder of the area. Remote imagery and interpolation will be used to estimate the cover for each species in any areas that are inaccessible or fall between sampled cells. This will allow creation of a map of estimated cover for each species throughout the sampling regions (see Figure 2 for example).

Figure 1 Paynes Prairie invasive plant sampling area

Deliverables:

• Brief report summarizing methods

• Maps depicting estimated invasive species cover, for each species, for the FNAI sampling area depicted in Figure 1.

Budget/Schedule:

The Contractor shall submit invoices by June 15, 2020 to the DEP Contract Manager, Deborah Burr and invoices should also be sent electronically to Sheryl Boutin at Sheryl.boutin@dep.state.fl.us

Task/Subtask Work Dates Date of Submission

Total Payment

Task 1

• Final report including trip descriptions, quantitative monitoring data, and digital natural community photographs

• URLs of web resource developed

• Cost: $7,000 per reference site

Spring 2020 June 15, 2020 $42,000

Task 2

• Long-term monitoring plan

• Resources/data collected from various sources on each park

• Field data describing storm damage and images collected in the field.

• Reference site condition descriptions

• Any publications referenced

• Presentation of data analysis

$18,852

Task 3

• Report including staff interview findings, NRTS data analysis and discussion, and literature review

• Sampling protocol including template file geodatabase with field data collection forms

2020 $8,380

Task 4

• Brief report with maps depicting estimated invasive species cover, for each species, for the survey area

2020 $7,354

Total

$76,586

All invoices shall include the reporting period covered (specific dates) for the invoice amount billed.

(For Example: Reporting Period: January 1, 2020 – March 31, 2020) mailto:Sheryl.boutin@dep.state.fl.us