The status and trend determinations were based on a qualitative assessment of factors influencing the condition of the site, including historical alterations, ongoing hydrologic impacts, sources of recreation-related disturbance, and surrounding land use and resource management. However, in the future it will be possible to base the evaluation on quantitative vegetation monitoring data. Two permanent plots following the protocol in the Region 5 Range Monitoring Program were installed at Pope Marsh in 2004 (Weixelman 2011). These plots are on the north-east and north west portions of Pope Marsh. The protocol is designed to classify a meadow according to wetland index and plant functional types, which provides a quantitative ecological condition scorecard for that meadow type (Weixelman and Gross In Review). The plots were visited in 2009/2010 and 2014/2015 and the USFS is in the process of analyzing the data (Engelhardt and Gross 2011b; Shana Gross pers. comm.). Distance to meadow edge,