WHO DEVELOPED THIS WILDERNESS CHARACTER MONITORING?
Wilderness character monitoring was conceived and developed by the Forest Service Wilderness Monitoring Committee, a team chartered in the Spring of 2001 to develop recommendations for wilderness monitoring. The Committee is composed primarily of staff with direct field experience managing wilderness: together, Committee members have a cumulative 130 person-years of experience directly managing wilderness. The Committee also includes representatives from Forest Service Washington Office monitoring staffs and from the other federal wilderness managing agencies to ensure integration within the Forest Service and among the federal agencies with wilderness management responsibility.
Once the Committee completed the national framework that develops the conceptual foundation for this monitoring, a new Technical Guide Development Team was formed to select the actual indicators and measures, and develop the detailed monitoring protocols. Each of these team members developed their own sub-teams composed of agency subject-matter-experts and scientists from across the United States, and their own working processes.
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