Projects & Plans
Large Area Planning Documents
Fiscal Year 2002 Deschutes Monitoring Report
United States
Department of
Agriculture
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Forest
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Deschutes National
Forest
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1645 Highway
20 East
Bend, OR 97701 |
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File Code: |
1920 |
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Date: |
February 7, 2003 |
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Dear Reader,
This letter and enclosures represent the Deschutes Forest's Monitoring
Report for Fiscal Year 2002 (October 1, 2001 - September 30, 2002).
The report reflects two types of monitoring. Implementation monitoring
verifies consistency with direction in our Forest Plan, and effectiveness
monitoring evaluates the effects of implementation activities.
The Implementation Monitoring
Resource Output and Activity Summary Table (Summary Table) includes
ten years of reporting and a ten year average column so trends of
Forest activities are more apparent. Projected outputs in the Forest
Plan are still displayed, but the comparison of annual outputs to
those projected in the Forest Plan are not as useful as establishing
trends that indicate where we are headed. New science, national
and regional direction, budgets, data gathering methods, and other
influences are continually evolving and adding to the Forest Plan.
We will begin revising the Forest Plan in a few years and information
we gain from studying trends and effects will influence the process.
The effectiveness monitoring
narratives include ongoing monitoring activities from previous
reports, and several new activities. Wildlife information that used
to appear in the Summary Table is now reported in the effectiveness
section.
For additional information on this Monitoring Report, please contact
Susan Skakel or Gery Ferguson at this office by mail or telephone
(541) 383-5300. The monitoring report can also be found on the Deschutes
National Forest website at: http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/centraloregon/manageinfo/nepa/monitor/amonitor.html
Sincerely,
/s/Leslie A. C. Weldon
LESLIE A. C. WELDON
Forest Supervisor
Enclosures
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