Forest Plan Implementation
Forest Plan Overview
Chapter 6 - Monitoring and Evaluation
Purpose of the Overview
The Forest Plan Overview provides a basic and general description of the Forest Plan.
Monitoring and evaluation is a quality control process for implementation of the Tongass Forest Plan. It provides the public, the Forest Service, and other concerned resource agencies with information on the progress and results of plan implementation. As such, monitoring and evaluation comprise an essential feedback mechanism within an adaptive management framework to keep the Plan dynamic and responsive to changing conditions. The evaluation process also provides feedback that can trigger corrective action, adjustment of plans and budgets, or both, to facilitate feasible and meaningful action on the ground.
Other state and federal natural resource agencies, the academic community, and interested members of the public and organizations are as interested in knowing more about Tongass social, economic, and ecological uses and values. There are opportunities to better align the interests, resources, and efforts of all these groups in monitoring and evaluation of the Forest Plan implementation.