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Planning
Forest Plan Monitoring Program Changes
- Public Notification Letter | 4/28/16
- Summary of Monitoring Changes
- Comments and Responses
- Forest Plan Chapter 4: Monitoring and Evaluation
- Five Year Forest Plan and Monitoring and Evaluation Report
- FY 2016-2017 Monitoring and Evaluation Report
- FY 2015 Monitoring and Evaluation Report
- FY 2014 Monitoring and Evaluation Report
2004 Chippewa National Forest Plan
- Chippewa National Forest Plan
- Forest Plan Amendments
- Supplemental Information Report to the FEIS
- Administrative Corrections to the Forest Plan
The Forest Plan guides all natural resource management activities for the Chippewa National Forest. It describes desired resource conditions, resource management practices, levels of resource production and management, and the availability of suitable land for resource management. (Forest plans are also referred to as ”land and resource management plans”.)
The purpose of the Forest Plan is to provide management direction to ensure that ecosystems are capable of providing a sustainable flow of beneficial goods and services to the public. More specifically it establishes:
How the Forest should look if the Forest Plan is successfully implemented (Goals and Desired Conditions)
- Measurable, planned results that contribute to reaching the desired conditions (Objectives)
- Required action or resource status designed to meet the desired conditions and objectives (Standards)
- Preferable action used to reach desired conditions and objectives (Guidelines)
- Management Direction that is applicable Forestwide
- Management direction that is applicable only to specific management areas
- Management direction that is applicable only to specific landscape ecosystems
- Monitoring and evaluation requirements
- Designation of land as suitable or not suitable for timber production and other resource management activities