Indicator – F1. Pre-harvest inventory satisfactory completed

Consultant's Initials:

LL, LI, BH

Source:

CIFOR

Identification No. in source: Use all refs:

3.3.1

Class:

Forest manage-ment planning and policy

Recommendation (after field testing) Yes or no

No

Revised Indicator Suggested? #

Combined with CIFOR 3.4.1

Box A:

Principle - Yield and Quality of Forest Goods are Sustainable

Criterion- The management plan is implemented and effective in moving toward stated goals.

Indicator – Pre-harvest inventory satisfactory completed.

Box B: Definition:

CIFOR 6.4 (Forest management Issues Document received from Indonesia to North American team June 23, 1998) Forest inventories are no longer planned solely as single surveys to determine conditions at one particular time, but also as a means of long-term observation of forest development.

Box C: Attributes

Rated on a scale of 1-5, where 1=no/bad/unimportant and 5=yes/good/important

Precisely defined? (clear)

n/a

Useable?

n/a

Is it applicable to other areas/ecosystems? (robust)

n/a

Sensitive?

n/a

Easy to detect, record and interpret?

n/a

Is it applicable to all landowners?

Yes

n/a

No

n/a

Box D: Applicability to Different Landowners. Explain any differences:

N/A

Box E: Overlap:

N/A

Box F: Geo-Political Scale:

Global

North America

Intermountain

West

Study area

Tenure

Site

Box G: Indicator Characteristics:

Diagnostic

Predictive

Both

Box H: Indicator Function:

Structure

Function/Process

Composition

Perturbation

Not Applicable

Box I: Underlying Concepts:

N/A

Box J: Relevance to Sustainable/Unsustainable Management:

N/A

Box K: Measurement Methods:

N/A

Box L: Data Required:

N/A

Box M: Data Used for the North American Test:

N/A

Box N: Example Results:

N/A

Box O: Assessing the Practicality:

N/A

Box P: Assessing the Information Value:

N/A

Box Q: Overall assessment:

Rejected due to overlap with CIFOR 3.4.1, Continuous forest inventory (CFI) plots established and measured regularly.

Box R: Did you rewrite or revise to a new indicator. If so what?

This indicator proved to be basically the same as G1, (CIFOR 3.4.1: Continuous forest inventory (CFI) plots established and measured regularly.)

Box S: References:

N/A

Appendix:

Please record your notes on evaluating the indicator here.

N/A