A Guide to Soil Quality Monitoring for Long Term Ecosystem Sustainability on Northern Region National Forests

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Define Problems	Locations Affected	Results to Date
Monitoring Concerns Burned Soil Compaction Displacement Ground Cover Nutrient Cycling Puddling Regeneration Surface Organics	Geographic Divisions Divisions/Districts Ecological Subsections Landtype Associations Watersheds	Monitoring Reports Reference Documents [Updated: 01/10/2007]
Activities Monitored  Fire Grazing Harvest Mining Nonentry Recreation Roading Site Preparation	Activity Sites	NFS Studies & Research Reports

Define Problems

Region One soil scientists have determined eight major "monitoring concerns," as well as seven major activities on the land which need to be monitored to ensure sustainablility of natural soil condition and function.

Locations Affected

In order to be Regionally connected, documents in this information base have been categorized, where possible, by various geographic parameters: physical location; landtype association; ecological subsection; vegetation.  These divisions provide the ability to share information among Forests.  Research sites, such as Research Natural Areas and Experimental Forests, are special cases, where studies result in deeper understanding of conditions and processes which may lead to better management practices and more robust standards of soil quality.

Results to Date

There are two sources of information available to National Forest decision makers:

1. Ongoing monitoring of soil conditions on activity areas
2. Research, including Research Station experiments, NFS administrative studies and academic theses.