The Scorecard
To implement the goals outlined in the 2010 USDA Strategic Plan for 2010-2015, the Forest Service released the National Roadmap for Responding to Climate Change in July 2011. The roadmap focuses on the strategic plan goal to "ensure our national forests and private working lands are conserved, restored, and made more resilient to climate change, while enhancing our water resources." The Forest Service implemented a Performance Scorecard to measure the progress made by local national forest and grassland units—with support from regional offices, research stations, and national programs—towards this goal.
The scorecard tracks progress in 4 dimensions—agency or organizational capacity, engagement, adaptation, and mitigation—through a set of 10 questions. The questions are designed to be flexible enough to be addressed through a range of approaches and at different geographic scales. Scorecard assessments began in spring 2011, with a goal of 100 percent of all national forests and grasslands in compliance by 2015.
To view the scorecard: www.fs.fed.us/climatechange/pdf/Scorecard.pdf.
