Social and Economic Monitoring

Collaborative, landscape-scale forest management is a relatively new paradigm for the Forest Service and their stakeholders. Therefore, our social monitoring focuses on tracking the attitudes towards management activities conducted under the CFLR program and towards the collaborative process.

Two of the expected benefits of accelerated forest restoration under CFLRP are local job creation and a reduction in wildfire management costs. Therefore, economic monitoring focuses on tracking job creation, impacts on local businesses, contract attributes, and treatment costs and benefits.

Current monitoring projects:

• Local contract capture from the CFLRP program, subcontracting trends, and attributes of those contracts - Project Summary

  • Reports:

    • 10 YEARS OF RESTORATION: Measuring the impact of the CFLRP on local communities

    • SWCC Contract Capture Report 2015

    • SWCC Contract Monitoring Report 2012

    • Subcontracting Trends in the SW Crown Report

• Contractor interviews

  • Reports: Summary of 2011 Contractor Discussions Final

• Survey to gauge local attitudes toward CFLRP activities and the collaborative process - Project Summary

  • Reports:

    • Monitoring Social Outcomes in the SW Crown (Final Report) (Summary)

    • 2018 Forest Management Survey Instrument

    • Initial Social Assessment Summary

    • Initial Social Assessment Final Report April 2013

• Fire manager interviews - Project Summary

  • Reports:

    • SWCC Fire Manager Survey 2020

    • SWCC Fire Manager Baseline Interviews 2014

• Treatments for Restoration Economic Analysis Tool (TREAT)

  • Reports: Stump to Mill Analysis Poster, TREAT Data Entry User Guide 2015

• Fire Program Cost Savings (R-CAT tool) - Project Summary

  • Reports: 2015 Adaptive Management Workshop Presentation, R-CAT Users Guide