ADAPT

ADAPT (Area decision analysis for planning and tracking) is about the spatial representation of areas that need help, energy allocation, or ecological equilibrium compensation incentive. Some areas overlap and thus can be added with relative weighing for prioritization reasons. It also may be used for energy allocation investment reasons. In conjunction with the ecogeoscheduler, ADAPT may be used to plan your life at whatever epoch you desire, knowing that you can change plans anytime. It can be used to prepare for the future (as far as you want). Decisions are then made about resources, the timing of events, the needs of people, and solving many problems at once for one geographic ecogeoarea. Therefore, all aspects of planning may be accomplished with ADAPT. Likewise, all that has been completed may be used as a tracking tool or a way to understand all the historical events in the ecogeoarea. This allows us to use these historical events to learn and understand the ecosystem’s history. For example, if cutting slash is the chosen ecological niche role, the area selected determines how much is accomplished. Once accomplished, the area becomes a record of history or a disturbance history of an area. It also is about recording the restoration of an area as well. In the future, the period to return to the site may be determined from historical area records stacked on top of one another in perpetuity. From here, it is easy to write plans because it is easy to talk about what occurred in an area at the time, date, who, when, what, where, and any other notes or considerations for future interventions. The prospective areas selected will then have this historical data to plan. The area designated in the future will quickly understand the number of resources, people, equipment, and other considerations. One can write a cumulative totality plan about every treatment or restoration in these areas. This is essential when understanding the current condition and planning the adaptive transformation toward the desired future. Knowing the cumulative totality of the current and expected conditions, we may holistically prescribe advice to strive toward desired conditions adaptively. (Many of these ideas are an adaptive expansion of ideas I had about forest management and holistic integration of sustainable enduring methods at UVM School of Natural Resources in the 1990s and as a GIS forester in the early 2000s)