Indicator 60.
Capacity To Measure and Monitor Changes in the Conservation and Sustainable Management
of Forests, Including Availability and Extent of Up-To-Date Data, Statistics, and Other
Information Important to Measuring or Describing Indicators Associated with Criteria 1-7
Measured, national scale
4
Partial measures, national scale
22
Estimated national scale
Number of indicators by
data availability, criterion 7
8
Data available national scale
5
7
Partial measures, estimated national scale
Measured subnational scale
23
Estimated subnational
1
17
Partial data at national scale
No data
0
5
10 15 20 25
Number of indicators
31
30 35
0
5
10
15
Number of indicators
20
Figure 60-1. Number of indicators by data availability,
criteria 1-6.
Figure 60-2. Number of indicators by data availability,
criterion 7.
What Is the Indicator and Why Is It Important?
the Forest Inventory and Analysis Program across all
forest land, measured data will be available at a
national scale for several more indicators. An indicator
can be classed in more than one category. For example,
the indicator—value and quantities of production of
nonwood forest products—has partial measures at a
national scale, partial measures at a subnational
scale, and no data for some parts.
This indicator assesses the availability of information
needed to measure or describe the indicators associated
with criteria 1 through 7. Successful implementation of
the criteria and indicator concept requires the availability
of information to report on the indicators.
What Does the Indicator Show?
For criterion 7, 5 indicators have enough data to make
a statement at a national scale, while 17 indicators have
data to make a partial statement at a national scale.
For criteria 1 through 6, three indicators have measured
data reported at a national scale. This data is for
area of forest, by forest type, wood and wood products
production, and supply and consumption of wood and
wood products. As the USDA Forest Service implements
The state of the data indicates that much work needs
to be done in the area of data collection.
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