Limits of Acceptable Change Planning System

Why Not Use Recreation Carrying Capacity?

What is Limits of Acceptable Change?

Why Use LAC?

How Does LAC Work?

The Nine-Step Process

The Nine-Step Process

Problems with the first step

A Positive Way to Fix the First Step

Why Work Towards Consensus Rather than Voting?

4 Levels of Support to Reach Consensus

Step 2 -- Defining Desired Future Conditions

Step 2 -- Defining Desired Future Conditions

Step 3 -- Indicators
(The Heart of LAC)

Step 5 --  Standards
(The Heart of LAC)

Swimming Beach
Example

Example from
Hells Canyon
 
LAC Planning
Process

Create goals to accomplish
the DFCs

Specific Objectives to accomplish the goals

Indicator & Standard

Monitoring

Management Actions
(triggered by standard)

Disadvantages of LAC

Advantages of LAC

LAC & Recreation Carrying Capacity