Blue targeting

About Blue targeting

Information about the project Blue Targeting is a tool for best management practice for forestry along small streams. It is scientifically based and simplified to be used by non-professionals in practice. The main objective of the tool is to do: • the right measure • at the right place • to the right extent. The app works as a checklist for the inventory of stream sections. Data are collected for Conservation value (C), Impact (I), Sensitivity (S) and Added values (A). A new section is started when the stream or the riparian zone significantly changes, for example, when the water velocity changes from rapid to slow or the trees in the riparian zone are cut etc. This means that the sections will have different lengths. It is proposed to keep the sections no shorter than 100 metres. The Blue Targeting protocol is filled in after all the stretch has been walked through. Please, take the start and end coordinates of the stretch in the next page.