2000 Resources Planning Act Assessment

The 2000 Resources Planning Act Assessment cycle focused on assessing resource conditions. International linkages were a main focus; national policies and international agreements on global warming and biological diversity had increased the visibility of international resource issues. After all, United States demands affect resource conditions and supplies outside national boundaries.

In 1993, the President established a goal of achieving sustainable management of all United States forests by the year 2000. In 1995, through the Montreal Process and the Santiago Declaration, the Nation developed and evaluated seven criteria and 67 indicators of both historic and current sustainable forest management. The seven criteria provided the organizing framework for the 2000 Assessment, which synthesized and reported mechanisms for the criteria and indicators at the national level.  Additionally, the 2020 Assessment focused on rangeland resources, mineral resources, and the projected outlook for forest and rangeland resources as well as detailed the first urban forest assessment.