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Forest Practices > Monitoring and Evaluation
Monitoring and Evaluation
This section of the Forest Practices Branch web site deals with the monitoring and evaluation of forest plans. The field of monitoring is vast and complex. A wide range of treatment outcomes can be monitored (outcomes that pertain to employment, habitat, timber yield, and so on). There are many groups (both within and outside of the Ministry of Forests) that have various roles and responsibilities for “monitoring” and have developed, or are developing, monitoring protocols, training, and analysis methods.
Monitoring is the process of evaluating system status and trends resulting from the implementation of a management plan. Evaluation is evaluating forest practices to determine the level to which they meet the intent of the policies that guide them, and assessing the policies for their ecological, social or operational appropriateness.
The primary monitoring program currently underway is the Forest
and Range Evaluation Program.
Link to additional Monitoring and Evaluation Programs and Projects using the Programs menu at lower left. Use the Related Pages menu at upper right to link to related information elsewhere in the Ministry of Forests web site.
Last updated on
October 14, 2005
The contact for this web page is: frank.barber@gov.bc.ca
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