The operational objectives of a management plan
describe what has to be achieved during the period of the plan to
move all the features of the site into a favourable
condition.
Individual objectives should be specific to a
feature or group of features, measurable and achievable within the
plan period. To allow the condition of features to be monitored,
one or more measurable attributes are identified for each
feature.
An attribute is a characteristic of a feature
which can be measured to provide an indication of its condition.
For each feature of interest it should be possible to define one or
more attributes for which targets can be set to assess how close
management is to its objectives.
'Objectives with attributes' are the basis
for the Conservation Management System (CMS) software database that
has been developed and promoted by the CMS
Consortium adopted by English Nature for planning and
recording conservation management plans. The following links
connect with examples of how the CMS logic can be applied to some
of the features of the Ruislip Woodlands operational management
plan.
Management
objectives (Natural England CMS format)
Operational
objectives, management options and outline
prescriptions
