Wisconsin's Forest Sustainability Framework
Linking Monitoring to Action
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to Wisconsin's Forest Sustainability FrameworkThe Wisconsin Council on Forestry is moving forward to increase the accountability of sustainable forest management in Wisconsin. The Forest Sustainability Framework Project will develop a comprehensive, but manageable set of indicators for monitoring Wisconsin's forest conditions and trends on a statewide scale.
Wisconsin has participated in the development of criteria and indicator systems on both regional and national scales. Identifying and monitoring a system specific to Wisconsin will provide the information necessary to match management practices to sustainability, and will supply the linkages needed between the Wisconsin Statewide Forest Plan goals and performance.
The Wisconsin Council on Forestry has formed an Advisory Committee that will meet during 2007 and will provide a recommended framework to the Council. Upon the Council's acceptance of a framework, data will then be gathered and analyzed to provide the fuel for a future Forest Assessment and an updated Statewide Forest Plan.
If this is your first site visit, check out the project goals and objectives and read the Criteria and Indicator page to learn more.
Ecological, Economic, & Social Systems
The overarching goal of Wisconsin's Statewide Forest Plan is to manage forests sustainably. That involves recognizing interconnections among ecological, economic, and social systems, and preserving their multiple benefits now and well into the future. In recent year's criteria and indicators systems have moved to the forefront of sustainability management. This project will build upon an already established criteria and indicators system that has been developed for the Northeastern U.S. Additional indicators or metrics will be evaluated for their usefulness in articulating Wisconsin's forest sustainability.