Steps

The basic steps of the Adaptive Management process include:
• Planning a program or project, including the development of an AM plan;
• Designing the corresponding project;
• Building the project (construction/implementation);
• Operating and maintaining the project;
• Monitoring selected parameters to measure project performance; and
• Assessing the results of monitoring, which will lead to decisions to:
• Continue project monitoring with no adjustment; or
• Adjust the project if goals and objectives are not being achieved; or Determine whether the project has successfully produced the desired outcomes and is complete.