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IV. MANAGEMENT OBJECTIVES, INDICATORS, AND PROPOSED MANAGEMENT ACTIONS FOR PROGRAM LANDS This section provides initial management objectives, indicators (performance measures), and initially proposed management actions to be evaluated through adaptive management during the First Increment, which were derived from the priority hypotheses summarized in the following table [separate file for this review]. The AM Working Group recommends that the priority hypotheses, initial management objectives, and management actions be the basis for an initial work plan for the Program. These will be further developed and additional management objectives, indicators (performance measures), and proposed management actions will be added as necessary during the First Increment to test refined hypotheses and hypotheses yet to be proposed. Management actions will be implemented within the framework of the IlVIltP such that adequate study design and analysis methods (e.g. baseline) are incorporated. During Program First Increment, additional management objectives, indicators, and proposed management actions will likely be developed through the process of refining CEMs and identifying priority hypotheses. The Program will initially attempt to achieve the following management strategies with the Governance Committee making a decision at the end of each step (Figure 11): 1. Begin with efforts at a sufficient scale to test concepts, to generate anticipated effects large enough to measure, but at a scale unlikely to cause undesirable impacts to third parties. 2. Monitor the effects of actions on key indicators of resource management objectives, and on indicators of undesirable consequences. 3. Determine if the same management action should be scaled up, or if the management action should be modified or abandoned. 4. Assuming management actions are resulting in desired outcomes, and as safety and efficacy of actions are established, increase scale to accomplish key management objectives (e.g., objectives included in Section IV.A.) by the end of the Program First Increment. The following sections provide descriptions of initial proposed management objectives, indicators, and management actions, as proposed by one or more parties. Management objectives are broad descriptions of what the Program is trying to achieve. Additional site specific management actions, indicators and objectives will be created and refined through the CEM development process and included as a part of management plans for individual project or Program land parcels prior to the initiation of management on Program lands. In this plan there are instances where management objectives, action, indicators, and hypotheses are implicitly accepted or explicitly stated as "true" or "false". For example, some descriptions September 1, 2006 Adaptive Management Plan 19