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A central challenge facing the implementation of State Wildlife Action Plans is how to monitor the effectiveness of these plans over time. How do we measure short-term results when we're implementing long-term solutions? At what scale do we approach monitoring? What monitoring efforts currently exist, and how do we build upon them? This article describes Minnesota's approach to monitoring its Wildlife Action Plan, specifically addressing the issues of scale and integrating existing information.
Monitoring should have three main components: collecting information, analyzing that information, and drawing conclusions in order to act on the information. Additionally, a monitoring program should be developed in relation to a set of goals or objectives. That is, monitoring should help answer questions like "How are we doing?," "Have we achieved our desired outcomes?," and "How can we improve?"
Scale: The Critical Ingredient
The issue of scale is...
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