10 Year Report for the Northwest Forest Plan
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Socioeconomic Effectiveness Monitoring
This website provides links to the 10-year report summarizing the scientific assessment of the status and trends of social economic between 1994 and 2003 on federal lands affected by the Northwest Forest Plan.
Abstract
The socioeconomic monitoring report addresses two evaluation questions posed in the Northwest Forest Plan Record of Decision and assesses progress in meeting 5 Plan socioeconomic goals. Volume I of the report contains key findings. Volume II addresses the question, "Are predictable levels of timber and nontimber resources available and being produced?" It also evaluates progress in meeting the goal of producing a predictable level of timber sales, special forest products, livestock grazing, minerals, and recreation opportunities. The focus of Volume III is the evaluation question, "Are local communities and economies experiencing positive or negative changes that may be associated with federal forest management?" Two Plan goals are also assessed in Volume III: to maintain the stability of local and regional economies on a predictable, long-term basis; and, to assist with long-term economic development and diversification to minimize adverse impacts associated with the loss of timber jobs. Progress in meeting another Plan goal – to promote agency-citizen collaboration in forest management – is evaluated in Volume IV. Volume V reports on trends in public values regarding forest management in the Pacific Northwest over the past decade, community views of how well the forest values and environmental qualities associated with late-successional, old-growth, and aquatic ecosystems have been protected under the Plan (a fifth Plan goal), and issues and concerns relating to forest management under the Plan expressed by community members. Volume VI provides a history of the Northwest Forest Plan socioeconomic monitoring program, and a discussion of potential future directions for the program.
Final Report
The Northwest Forest Plan status and trends and synthesis reports are availabe as a series of reports called general technical reports (GTR’s) by the Pacific Northwest Research Station. The final report for Social Economic is available as a general technical report (GTR) identified as PNW_GTR649 by the Pacific Northwest Research Station and has received extensive technical review as well as external blind peer review prior to publication. Copies of the reconciliation letter for external peer review comments are included. These comments have been considered and incorporated into the report.
- Northwest Forest Plan The First Ten Years (1994-2003):
Socioeconomic Monitoring Results - Reconciliation letter for External Peer Review Comments (PDF, 216 kb)
Bibliographic Citation
Charnley, S., ed. [In press]. Northwest Forest Plan: the first ten years. Rural communities and economics. Gen. Tech. Rep. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.
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