Making monitoring data useful
In managing national forests and grasslands, decision makers must weigh ecological complexity, changing environmental conditions, the many different expectations of the public, and uncertainty about long-term consequences.
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Monitoring data can therefore be extremely useful: it can provide information on the status and trend of natural resources, and feedback on whether management objectives are being met.
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I loved collaborating with national forest units to streamline their monitoring reports into easy-to-read, concise, documents that told a compelling story of the "state of the forest."
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Monitoring data snapshots
Monitoring reports that run to 100+ pages of highly technical information are not useful to busy decision makers. I created 2-page snapshots to summarize monitoring data and provide status update on the state of forest management. These brief, clearly-written documents were popular communication products for national forest staff.
