Active and Adaptive Management Plans
Under the AFF Standards, management plans should be active,adaptive and current to the landowner objectives. As all foresters know, management plans are much more useful if they are up-to date. But what constitutes a plan update?
A plan update can be as informal as a handwritten note in the margin indicating you have completed a management activity or a short amendment describing why you have chosen to defer a harvest. More formal updates may be needed as landowner management objectives change or if all management activities prescribed in the plan are completed. Updates should always include a date.
Keeping management plans current through updates helps to remind landowners to go back to their plan and evaluate them to ensure that their stated objectives still match their current goals for the land. Management plans should be active pathways to completing landowner goals and updates can help accomplish this.
