Setting monitoring objectives for landscape-size areas

Craig M. Olson; Dean Angelides

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Setting monitoring objectives for landscape-size areas

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Craig M. Olson, Dean Angelides

Year:

2000

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Hansen, Mark; Burk, Tom, eds. Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-212. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 145-147.

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Abstract

The setting of objectives for monitoring schemes for landscape-size areas should be a complex task in today's regulatory and sociopolitical atmosphere. The technology available today, the regulatory environment, and the sociopolitical considerations require multiresource inventory and monitoring schemes, whether tile ownership is industrial or for preservation. Monitoring is essential so that we know if we are meeting our management objectives,

Parent Publication

Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century

Citation

Olson, Craig M.; Angelides, Dean. 2000. Setting monitoring objectives for landscape-size areas. In: Hansen, Mark; Burk, Tom, eds. Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century. Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-212. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 145-147.