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Progress Monitoring and evaluation are critical components in planning. For the purpose of this Action Plan, we define progress monitoring as the process of determining whether the tasks and objectives planned for have been completed by the dates set. Evaluation is defined as determining whether or not project outcomes produce the results we intended to achieve.
5.1 Progress Monitoring
Each project lead person will be asked to provide quarterly project status reports for the Council in January, April, July and October. During the monthly Council Steering Committee meetings, progress on projects will be reviewed and any problems encountered in implementing the Action Plan will be discussed.
5.2 Evaluation
There are a number of indicators that can help measure the effectiveness of the LNWC's efforts to improve conditions in the watershed. None of these indicators by themselves provide an accurate measure of watershed health. Collectively, however, that can tell us a great deal about watershed conditions. These include:
Fish counts
Water quality measures:
Macroinvertebrate analysis
Water temperature
Dissolved Oxygen levels
Bacteria levelsHabitat Surveys:
Amount of large wood in streams
Gravel
Number of barriers to fish migration that remain in the watershed.
Amount of eel grass in the estuary.
Understanding the significance of annual changes in many of these indicators is beyond our current level of knowledge. Complex and cumulative processes affect fish counts, water temperatures, macroinvertebrate counts, levels of dissolved oxygen, etc. Part of the challenge in the coming years will be to understand these processes well enough to be able to use these measures to determine if our efforts are producing the results we wish to achieve.
5.3 Document Revisions
As stated in the Introduction, the Action Plan is intended to be a living document, changed and updated as needed to reflect new or pressing issues. The document was formatted in such a way that it can easily incorporate additions.
Council members can suggest changes in the Action Plan at any time. Members can direct these changes to either the Council Steering Committee or Council. The Steering Committee will initiate major updates of the plan, with concurrence of the Council.
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