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LAC Workshops: Step 5

SPECIFY MEASURABLE STANDARDS FOR THE RESOURCE AND
SOCIAL INDICATORS SELECTED FOR EACH OPPORTUNITY CLASS

Purpose of this step was to assign quantitative or highly specific measures
to the indicators. This greater specifity was obtained by establishing
standards-measurable aspects of the indicators defined in step 3.

Standards are often best expressed in terms of probabilities. For example,
a standard for daily contacts while traveling in a certain opportunity class
might be expressed as: “Contact between different groups on a trail will
not exceed four per day on at least 90 percent of the days”.

Product is a table of specific (quantified where possible) measures of
acceptable conditions for each indicator in each opportunity zone.

Results of Step 5:

Resource Standards (added 12/07/07)

Social Standards (Excel spreadsheet)

January 31, 2006 Workshop Documents
Feedback Results	Web page
Step 5 Worksheet For Determining Standards For Resource Conditions	pdf document
Meeting Notes 01/31/06	Web page

 

December 13, 2005 Workshop Documents
Feedback Results	Web page
Worksheet showing Step 4 inventory techniques	pdf document
Worksheet for helping develop Step 5 standards	pdf document
Meeting Notes 12/13/05	Web page

 

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Title: Limits of Acceptable Change
Last Updated: December 27, 2007