Institute for a Sustainable Environment. SLICES Introduction.   Accessed November 26, 2011: http://ise.uoregon.edu/slices/Main.html.

The Slices Framework is an open source tool for those interested in restoration and conservation within the Willamette River floodplain.  Slices represents the Willamette River and adjacent areas as a series of 1km slices that lie perpendicular to the Willamette floodplain.  While the river channel, floodplain vegetation and land use changes throughout time, the floodplain remains relatively constant.  By using the floodplain as a reference point, Slices allows us to track ecological changes to a single location over time.  Current scientific studies in the Willamette basin gather data on channel complexity, floodplain forests, cold water refuges, fish assemblages, flood levels and flood storage.  This data will is stored in a GIS and layered over the Slices Framework.  Currently the Slices Framework consists of pre-made interactive maps, attribute tables and GIS files. These resources provide access to data useful in identifying potential restoration sites and predicting restoration impacts through time.

Willamette River floodplain slices