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MONITORING IN SUPPORT OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN: A REPORT ON REQUIREMENTS AND KEY QUESTIONS
Citation:
Mitchell, G. MONITORING IN SUPPORT OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN: A REPORT ON REQUIREMENTS AND KEY QUESTIONS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/R-95/057.
Description:
This document summarizes the monitoring requirements identified in the Record of Decision (ROD) for the Pacific Northwest Forest Plan and presents the key questions the future monitoring program should strive to answer. he key questions, developed from the standards and guidelines and the objectives of the ROD and the Forest Plan, are broad but do illustrate the types and amounts of data that are needed. he document was organized around the plans' three types of monitoring - implementation, effectiveness, and validation - and the three strategies of the Forest Plan, namely, Late Successional/ Old Growth Maintenance, Aquatic Conservation, and Socioeconomic Sustainability. learly a future monitoring program will be complex, and it is expected to generate much data and information to guide and evaluate management activities. more specific data-quality objectives parameters that can be measured, and indicators of resource conditions need to be identified.