Major Reasons for
Developing New Protocols

1. Continued inability of the Forest Service to accurately and consistently portray the value and condition of its facility assets to oversight bodies using current methods.
   
   
2. Difficulty of effectively spreading the agency's declining human and financial resources to cover the large number and variety of facility assets in its portfolio using current methods.
   
   
3. Recognition that current methods are failing to meet day-to-day on the ground facility management needs, and that more than just minor tweaks are needed.