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	==== Isn't this stuff already on a real government website somewhere? ====		==== Isn't this stuff already on a real government website somewhere? ====

	Maybe. Government websites come and go, and in many cases documents, pages, database applications, and whole domains are removed from public availability and not replaced. Most of the time this happens when employees or priorities change, but in many cases non-technical content managers just can't keep up when an agency switches from ftp scripts to Adobe Dreamweaver, to Oracle ContentDB, to Microsoft Sharepoint, to 'let's just shoehorn EVERYTHING into an ArcGIS storymap'. Things break, especially websites after the idiot programmer has gone home.		Maybe. Government websites come and go, and in many cases documents, pages, database applications, and whole domains are removed from public availability and not replaced. Most of the time this happens when employees or priorities change, but in many cases non-technical content managers just can't keep up when an agency switches from ftp and CGI scripts to Adobe Dreamweaver, to Oracle ContentDB, to Microsoft Sharepoint, to 'let's just shoehorn EVERYTHING into an ArcGIS storymap'. Things break, especially websites after the idiot programmer has gone home.

	Plus, government websites generally have bad design, irritating 'webmasters', ~~and~~ boneheaded policies, and mid-century publishing routines. Meetings, trainings. No, but thanks no.		Plus, government websites generally have bad design, irritating 'webmasters', boneheaded policies, and mid-century publishing routines. Meetings, trainings, delays. Eventually the CIO decides to discontinue PHP or the Ministry of Communication changes its mind about scientists having blogs, and pages disappear again. No, but thanks no.

	==== This looks like Wikipedia, is this Wikipedia? ====		==== This looks like Wikipedia, is this Wikipedia? ====

	No, but these pages use [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software, which was developed to run Wikipedia. Wikipedia is different though, in that it has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_content_guidelines rules] and a society of admins to enforce what goes on in their articles. In most cases, information on these pages would not fit Wikipedia's model of only having independently sourced articles about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notable] topics.		No, but these pages use [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software, which was developed to run Wikipedia. Wikipedia is different though, in that it has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_content_guidelines rules] and a society of admins to enforce what goes on in their articles. In most cases, information on these pages would not fit Wikipedia's model of only having independently sourced articles about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notable] topics.

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	These pages contain corrected and annotated versions of documentation mostly to do with 'wilderness character' in the United States. So far we have:		[[File:Wilderness survival guide.jpg\|frameless\|right]]
			==== What is all this? ====

			These pages contain corrected and annotated versions of documentation mostly to do with wilderness and 'wilderness character' in the United States. So far we have:

	[[USFS Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide]]		[[USFS Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide]]

	Eventually we will have it all. Promises promises.		Eventually we will have it all. Promises promises.

			==== Isn't this stuff already on a real government website somewhere? ====

			Maybe. Government websites come and go, and in many cases documents, pages, database applications, and whole domains are removed from public availability and not replaced. Most of the time this happens when employees or priorities change, but in many cases non-technical content managers just can't keep up when an agency switches from ftp scripts to Adobe Dreamweaver, to Oracle ContentDB, to Microsoft Sharepoint, to 'let's just shoehorn EVERYTHING into an ArcGIS storymap'. Things break, especially websites after the idiot programmer has gone home.

			Plus, government websites generally have bad design, irritating 'webmasters', and boneheaded policies, and mid-century publishing routines. Meetings, trainings. No, but thanks no.

			==== This looks like Wikipedia, is this Wikipedia? ====

			No, but these pages use [https://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software, which was developed to run Wikipedia. Wikipedia is different though, in that it has [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_content_guidelines rules] and a society of admins to enforce what goes on in their articles. In most cases, information on these pages would not fit Wikipedia's model of only having independently sourced articles about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability notable] topics.

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	~~This Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide provides a tested~~ and ~~refined~~		These pages contain corrected and annotated versions of documentation mostly to do with 'wilderness character' in the United States. So far we have:
	~~methodology for monitoring trends in wilderness character based on lessons learned~~
	~~from 15 years~~ of ~~experience developing and implementing wilderness character~~
	~~monitoring across the National Wilderness Preservation System. This document~~
	~~updates and replaces the Technical Guide for Monitoring Selected Conditions~~
	~~Related~~ to ~~Wilderness Character (Landres et al. 2009), and provides protocols~~
	~~for the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, to implement a nationally~~
	~~consistent approach to wilderness character monitoring across all 448 wildernesses~~
	~~administered by the agency. This approach also is consistent~~ with ~~the interagency~~
	wilderness character ~~monitoring strategy published~~ in ~~Keeping It Wild 2: An Updated~~
	~~Interagency Strategy to Monitor Trends in Wilderness Character Across~~ the
	~~National Wilderness Preservation System (Landres et al. 2015) and endorsed in 2015~~
	~~by the Interagency Wilderness Policy Council~~.

	~~This technical guide builds on the best available data to yield a coherent~~		[[USFS Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide]]
	~~understanding of how wilderness character is changing over time.~~ Wilderness
	~~character monitoring provides the Forest Service:~~
	* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.
	* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate "to preserve wilderness character" by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character within the Forest Service and with the public.

	~~Wilderness character monitoring in the Forest Service is designed to be nationally~~		Eventually we will have it all. Promises promises.
	~~consistent while allowing and encouraging local flexibility as necessary to meet~~
	~~wilderness-specific needs. The statutory language of the Wilderness Act is used~~
	~~to identify five qualities of wilderness character that form the foundation of this~~
	~~monitoring: (1) Untrammeled, (2) Natural, (3) Undeveloped, (4) Solitude or Primitive~~
	~~and Unconfined Recreation, and (5) Other Features of Value. This technical guide uses~~
	~~Keeping It Wild 2’s organizational framework of qualities, monitoring questions, and~~
	~~indicators to ensure consistency across the four wilderness managing agencies (the~~
	~~Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the~~
	~~U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Each agency identifies measures to evaluate trends~~
	~~in these five qualities. This technical guide describes the Forest Service required as~~
	~~well as optional measures. Locally developed measures to meet wilderness-specific~~
	~~information needs are also discussed.~~


	~~This technical guide is composed of the following:~~

	* [[Abbreviations and Acronyms]]
	* '''Part 1, National Framework''', describes what and why, i.e., the approach the Forest Service will ~~use to implement wilderness character monitoring nationwide, including definitions and key concepts~~.

	~~# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]~~
	~~# [[Untrammeled Quality]]~~
	~~# [[Natural Quality]]~~
	~~# [[Undeveloped Quality]]~~
	~~# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality]]~~
	~~# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]~~

	* '''Part 2, Monitoring Protocols''', describes how this monitoring will be implemented with detailed, step-by-step protocols.

	~~# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]~~
	~~# [[Untrammeled Quality Indicators]]~~
	~~# [[Natural Quality Indicators]]~~
	~~# [[Undeveloped Quality Indicators]]~~
	~~# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]~~
	~~# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]~~

	* [[Glossary]]
	* [[References]]
	* Appendices
	~~# [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]~~
	~~# [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]~~


	~~Implementing wilderness character monitoring does not guarantee the preservation of~~
	~~wilderness character, but it informs and helps improve wilderness stewardship by ensuring~~
	~~that Forest Service line officers and managers are accountable to the central mandate of the~~
	~~Wilderness Act—to preserve wilderness character~~.

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	character monitoring provides the Forest Service:		character monitoring provides the Forest Service:
	* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.		* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.
	* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate ~~“to~~ preserve wilderness ~~character”~~ by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.		* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate "to preserve wilderness character" by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character within the Forest Service and with the public.		* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character within the Forest Service and with the public.

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	understanding of how wilderness character is changing over time. Wilderness		understanding of how wilderness character is changing over time. Wilderness
	character monitoring provides the Forest Service:		character monitoring provides the Forest Service:
	* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground		* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.
	based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.		* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate “to preserve wilderness character” by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate “to preserve wilderness		* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character within the Forest Service and with the public.
	character” by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie
	directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.
	* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness
	stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character
	within the Forest Service and with the public.

	Wilderness character monitoring in the Forest Service is designed to be nationally		Wilderness character monitoring in the Forest Service is designed to be nationally
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	well as optional measures. Locally developed measures to meet wilderness-specific		well as optional measures. Locally developed measures to meet wilderness-specific
	information needs are also discussed.		information needs are also discussed.


	This technical guide is composed of the following:		This technical guide is composed of the following:

	[[Abbreviations and Acronyms]]		* [[Abbreviations and Acronyms]]
			* '''Part 1, National Framework''', describes what and why, i.e., the approach the Forest Service will use to implement wilderness character monitoring nationwide, including definitions and key concepts.
	* Part 1, National Framework, describes what and why, i.e., the approach the Forest
	Service will use to implement wilderness character monitoring nationwide, including
	definitions and key concepts.

	# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]		# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]
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	# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]

	* Part 2, Monitoring Protocols, describes how this monitoring will be implemented with		* '''Part 2, Monitoring Protocols''', describes how this monitoring will be implemented with detailed, step-by-step protocols.
	detailed, step-by-step protocols~~; the glossary and references are at the end of this part~~.

	# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]		# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]
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	# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]

	[[Glossary]]		* [[Glossary]]
			* [[References]]
	[[References]]		* Appendices
			# [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]
	* Appendices ~~summarize key implementation attributes and measures considered but not~~		# [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]
	~~used.~~

	~~Appendix 1.~~ [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]

	~~Appendix 2. [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]~~

	Implementing wilderness character monitoring does not guarantee the preservation of		Implementing wilderness character monitoring does not guarantee the preservation of

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	Part 1 ~~- The~~ National Framework		This Wilderness Character Monitoring Technical Guide provides a tested and refined
			methodology for monitoring trends in wilderness character based on lessons learned
			from 15 years of experience developing and implementing wilderness character
			monitoring across the National Wilderness Preservation System. This document
			updates and replaces the Technical Guide for Monitoring Selected Conditions
			Related to Wilderness Character (Landres et al. 2009), and provides protocols
			for the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, to implement a nationally
			consistent approach to wilderness character monitoring across all 448 wildernesses
			administered by the agency. This approach also is consistent with the interagency
			wilderness character monitoring strategy published in Keeping It Wild 2: An Updated
			Interagency Strategy to Monitor Trends in Wilderness Character Across the
			National Wilderness Preservation System (Landres et al. 2015) and endorsed in 2015
			by the Interagency Wilderness Policy Council.

			This technical guide builds on the best available data to yield a coherent
			understanding of how wilderness character is changing over time. Wilderness
			character monitoring provides the Forest Service:
			* Information to show how agency stewardship makes a difference on the ground
			based on credible data that are collected consistently and endure over time.
			* Accountability for the legal and policy mandate “to preserve wilderness
			character” by compiling key data to evaluate trends in conditions that tie
			directly to the Wilderness Act of 1964.
			* A communication framework to comprehensively discuss wilderness
			stewardship needs and priorities related to preserving wilderness character
			within the Forest Service and with the public.

			Wilderness character monitoring in the Forest Service is designed to be nationally
			consistent while allowing and encouraging local flexibility as necessary to meet
			wilderness-specific needs. The statutory language of the Wilderness Act is used
			to identify five qualities of wilderness character that form the foundation of this
			monitoring: (1) Untrammeled, (2) Natural, (3) Undeveloped, (4) Solitude or Primitive
			and Unconfined Recreation, and (5) Other Features of Value. This technical guide uses
			Keeping It Wild 2’s organizational framework of qualities, monitoring questions, and
			indicators to ensure consistency across the four wilderness managing agencies (the
			Forest Service, the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, and the
			U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service). Each agency identifies measures to evaluate trends
			in these five qualities. This technical guide describes the Forest Service required as
			well as optional measures. Locally developed measures to meet wilderness-specific
			information needs are also discussed.

			This technical guide is composed of the following:

			[[Abbreviations and Acronyms]]

			* Part 1, National Framework, describes what and why, i.e., the approach the Forest
			Service will use to implement wilderness character monitoring nationwide, including
			definitions and key concepts.

	# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]		# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]
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	# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]

	Part 2 - Monitoring Protocols		* Part 2, Monitoring Protocols, describes how this monitoring will be implemented with
			detailed, step-by-step protocols; the glossary and references are at the end of this part.

	# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]		# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]
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	# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]		# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]
	# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]

			[[Glossary]]

			[[References]]

			* Appendices summarize key implementation attributes and measures considered but not
			used.

	Appendix 1. [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]		Appendix 1. [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]

	Appendix 2. [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]		Appendix 2. [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]

			Implementing wilderness character monitoring does not guarantee the preservation of
			wilderness character, but it informs and helps improve wilderness stewardship by ensuring
			that Forest Service line officers and managers are accountable to the central mandate of the
			Wilderness Act—to preserve wilderness character.

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	# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]		# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]
	# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]

			Appendix 1. [[Summary of Key Implementation Attributes for All the Measures in Each Quality]]
			Appendix 2. [[Measures Considered But Not Used]]

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	~~Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.~~		Part 1 - The National Framework

	~~== Getting started ==~~		# [[Wilderness Character Monitoring in the Forest Service]]
	* [~~https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Configuration_settings Configuration settings list~~]		# [[Untrammeled Quality]]
	* [~~https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:FAQ MediaWiki FAQ~~]		# [[Natural Quality]]
	* [~~https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/mediawiki~~-~~announce.lists.wikimedia.org/ MediaWiki release mailing list~~]		# [[Undeveloped Quality]]
	* [~~https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Localisation~~#~~Translation_resources Localise MediaWiki for your language~~]		# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality]]
	* [~~https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Combating_spam Learn how to combat spam on your wiki~~]		# [[Other Features of Value Quality]]

			Part 2 - Monitoring Protocols

			# [[Monitoring Protocols\|Overview]]
			# [[Untrammeled Quality Indicators]]
			# [[Natural Quality Indicators]]
			# [[Undeveloped Quality Indicators]]
			# [[Solitude or Primitive and Unconfined Recreation Quality Indicators]]
			# [[Other Features of Value Quality Indicators]]

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