About Forest Health Tracker
The Washington Department of Natural Resources leads development and maintenance of this online tool to compile and present projects to improve forest health across all-lands in Washington. This platform increases our shared awareness and understanding of what forest health activities are proposed, planned, and completed on the landscape toward our shared goals established in Washington's Forest Action Plan and 20-Year Forest Health Strategic Plan: Eastern Washington.
For all users, Forest Health Tracker functions as visual dashboard that displays and connects data in various forms from a multitude of inputs. Forest Health Tracker combines and connects financial, spatial, and additional project data such as photos, reports, and external links on forest health projects in Washington across all-land ownerships as provided by willing landowners and managers. Knowing the location and details of forest health projects and relevant other information increases our situational awareness of forest health activities across land ownerships, facilitating greater strategic planning and monitoring of progress through shared stewardship of our natural resources
Willing land and resource managers submit data to this site about their projects that have forest health and resilience as the primary or one of a project's primary objectives. The data on a project can be viewed on its own, and within the context of priority landscapes identified in Washington's Forest Action Plan.
Forest Health Tracker is built upon a customized instance of the open source ProjectFirma™ platform by Environmental Science Associates. The base platform has been extended with robust tabular and spatial program performance and project tracking abilities. The initial development of this site was made possible with funding from the Washington State Legislature.