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Winchester, KY 40391
Phone: 859-745-3100
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Forest Planning and Projects
Decisions for managing your national forests are made at two levels: programmatic and project. How we move from the Forest Plan to projects is a process the Daniel Boone calls landscape analysis.
- Programmatic decisions are broad in nature, usually covers a large geographic area, and describe management activities in a general way. Documents that are typical of programmatic decisions are Land and Resource Management Plans (Forest Plan).
- Landscape Analyses evaluate areas of national forest system land for changes needed to move toward desired conditions (goals and objectives from the Forest Plan). The DBNF is using an Integrated Resource Management Strategy (IRMS) as a process for doing landscape analyses. The Forest identified 33 landscape areas that are based largely on watersheds. Landscape areas are evaluated individually for changes that are needed to move toward desired conditions. The result of this level of analysis is a list of project proposals. Public participation is encouraged.
- Project-level decisions include site-specific projects and activities that implement forest plan direction. Project-level decisions involve projects and activities in specific areas.
Long-range forest plans provide broad, general management direction similar to a county land use plan. The Landscape Analysis bridges the gap between the Forest Plan and project proposals, focusing Forest Plan direction to a particular landscape or watershed. Before projects can be implemented, site-specific project planning is conducted, consistent with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). Both decision levels and landscape analyses provide opportunities for input from citizens and local communities.
Plans and projects are monitored and evaluated to verify that results are as predicted or future management can be adapted when we are not getting the predicted results, or new scientific information becomes available.
Title: Forest Planning
Last Updated:
February 13, 2007
