Forest Plan Maintenance Program

Objective

Manage the timber resource for production of saw timber and other wood products from suitable timber lands made available for timber harvest, on an even-flow, long-term sustained yield basis and in an economically efficient manner.

Monitoring Plan Question

1. Is the timber management program meeting the objectives of achieving economic timber sales and rebuilding the volume under contract and shelf volume components of the sale program?

2. Are timber harvest activities adhering to applicable timber management standards and guidelines relative to: created openings exceeding the maximum size limit for unit harvest, harvest on slopes greater than 72 percent slope gradient, or within the 1,000 feet beach and estuary buffer?

3. Is the ASQ landbase consistent with resource information and programmed harvest?

4. Is the timber demand being met within limits of the adaptive management strategy and TTRA?

5. Has a Timber Sale Adaptive Management Strategy threshold been reached, so that it is appropriate to move to the next phase?

Sampling/Reporting Period

1. Annual/5 year

2. First 1 to 3 years, semi-annual greater than 3 years, as needed

3. Annual/5 year

4. Annual/5 year

5. Annual/5 year

Evaluation Criteria

1. Chapter 2 Timber Goals and Objectives.

2. Harvest units in compliance with Forest-wide Standards and Guidelines: TIM5 II.C, III.A,B and C. (unit size limits); SW3 I.A.5. (72 percent slopes); BEACH2 II.A.6 (beach and estuary fringe).

3. New information leading to changes in timber utilization standards, timber inventory results, timber dispersion requirements, tentatively suitable land base, yield tables, operability inventory, projections on area managed for riparian, beach fringe, and estuary resources, implementation factors, spatial limitations of analysis, natural condition. TIM4.

4. Annual Demand Calculation.

5. Annual scheduled volume harvested.

Data and Inventory Sources

1. Silviculture Inventory, Timber Monitoring.

2. Cut and sold monthly report and 6/12-month sale reports.

3. Silviculture inventory, timber monitoring, GIS layers of soils and streams.

Feed Back Mechanism

Evaluate management practices and change if needed; Timber Standards and Guidelines.