GFFP Monitoring & Research Team
Adaptive Management Framework
Revised 1/7/05

The table in the linked PDF document was developed by the Greater Flagstaff Forests Partnership (GFFP) Monitoring and Research Team as the initial makings of a monitoring and research plan for the 180,000 acre project area of the GFFP (see www.gffp.org). This framework could be applied to a smaller or larger landscape. The following five broad areas of concern reflect the monitoring needs categories of this partnership, and are divided into fuels reduction, ecosystem restoration, social issues, economic health, and institutional health. This is a very broad framework of what areas COULD be monitored within the larger area. The actual application of what SHOULD be monitored within individual projects may be a much smaller, and more focused subset of these variables. Decisions about which goals are desirable for individual projects should be decided by the actual project designers (e.g., ID team), and determined based upon very specific project objectives, the specific landscape that is affected by the project, the desired conditions for that landscape, and how those desired conditions are proposed to be achieved. Also, an explicit relationship needs to be developed between an analysis of the outcomes of the monitoring, and how those outcomes affect future management. Objectives and indicators in BOLD are considered a priority in the monitoring process. See PDF document below: