Southwestern Region
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Albuquerque, NM 87102
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Assessments

The Southwestern Region has invested heavily over the last 3 years to obtain  assessments to provide the information necessary to describe the current ecological, social, and economic conditions and trends for the revision of the Southwestern Region forest plans. 

Ecological Assessments

In order to help us evaluate ecological sustainability, we have implemented a cost share agreement with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to provide ecological assessments. The assessment products delivered from this agreement will include ecosystem diversity reports, reference condition reports describing the range of natural variability, and historic and current condition Vegetation Dynamic Development Tool (VDDT) models that simulate changes in vegetation conditions over time.

• TNC Cost Share Agreement (PDF, 54 kb)
• Ecological & Biological Diversity Reports

Social and Economic Assessments

In order to evaluate social and economic sustainability, socioeconomic assessments using existing data (such as Census data) have been conducted for the Southwestern Region forests. Also, attitudes, beliefs and values (ABV) focus groups have been conducted on each Forest and on the Cibola National Grasslands.