Resource Planning and Monitoring

The Monitoring Group of the Forest Service Pacific Northwest Region Resource Planning and Monitoring Staff, evaluates the effects of resource management activities on ecosystems in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California. Public and private sectors are invited to provide feedback to land managers in Implementation Monitoring. Scientists evaluate the effects of the Northwest Forest Plan on the Spotted Owl, Watersheds, Marbled Murrelet, Old Growth, Socio-Economic, and Tribal. The effectiveness of Forest Plans on National Forests are assessed. Below find links to related monitoring efforts.

• Adaptive Management Area Network

• Forest Inventory Analysis

• Forest Plan Monitoring Reports
  (Monitoring the Implementation of Forest Plans)

• Northwest Forest Plan Monitoring
  (Interagency Regional Monitoring)

• Natural Resource Information System

• Other Sites

• PACFISH/INFISH Effectiveness Monitoring (PIBO)

• Recreation Monitoring

• WO Resource Information Group