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REVISED DRAFT <br />. April 11, 2002 <br />Increment using a flexible and incremental approach that is based on an "adaptive <br />management process" that has been defined specifically for this Program. That <br />process for changing Program activities and criteria, which is described as <br />"Program Adaptive Management," includes changes based on the technical <br />definition of adaptive management$ or on new information or other types of <br />information or experience. <br />1. Applicability of the Program Adaptive Management Process <br />a. Activities and Criteria. To further the First Increment objectives, the <br />Program document and its attachments describe certain activities and <br />criteria such as milestones, land and water action plans, land and water <br />acquisition and management criteria, management actions, and others. <br />These activities and criteria were based on the best information available <br />at the time the Program was established. During the First Increment, these <br />activities and criteria may be changed through Program Adaptive <br />Management. Changes to Program activities and criteria may be justified <br />by new information reflecting practical considerations such as land <br />availability, economic considerations or budgetary constraints, or because <br />certain tasks prove unachievable or will take longer to accomplish <br />notwithstanding good faith efforts of the participants. Accordingly, except <br />as noted in Paragraph III.B. Lb. below, the Governance Committee may <br />change the Program's First Increment Milestones and other activities and <br />criteria, provided such changes are consistent with accomplishing the First <br />Increment Objectives. These changes may be made and the Program will <br />continue to provide ESA compliance during the First Increment, so long as <br />the First Increment Milestones are being met. <br />b. Target Flows. During the First Increment, the FWS' May and August 0 <br />1994 species and annual pulse target flows serve as an initial reference �5`�``�� <br />5 <br />Adaptive management in the technical sense is a series of scientifically driven <br />actions that use the monitoring and research results provided by the Integrated Monitoring and <br />Research Plan (IMRP) (described below) to test predictions and assumptions in Program <br />activities and criteria, and to use the resulting information to improve those predictions and <br />assumptions. <br />• 7 <br />