Monitoring

White Mountain Stewardship Project webinar presentation, hosted by National Forest Foundation and The Nature Conservancy. Presentation (PDF) recommends steps to improve monitoring, based on five years of experience monitoring a stewardship contract.

Overview of the detailed Five Year Monitoring Report

The White Mountain Stewardship Project is the first and only 10-year stewardship contract in the nation, and is designed to restore forest health, reduce the risk of wildfire to communities, reduce the cost of forest thinning to taxpayers, support local economies and encourage new wood product industries and uses for the thinned wood fiber. This report is an analysis and assessment of the administrative, ecological, economic, and social monitoring data collected between 2005 and 2009. The development of this report was made possible through a partnership between the Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy. Note that the document is a 125 page PDF.

This unique and informative guide is a "how to" filled with examples and answers to many questions and pit falls commonly experienced by collaborative groups seeking to develop a multiparty monitoring program. The guide is especially useful for members of collaborative groups and federal agency personnel interested in developing a multiparty monitoring program to measure socioeconomic and ecological changes resulting from land management.

The Fact Sheet summarizes monitoring activites conducted by the collaboration.

The Group's monitoring plan approved in 2009