The answers from the forecasting process, though directly useful for 

 some purposes, often require further interpretation in order to provide 

 direct guidance on issues that arise during permit reviews. For example, 

 the reviewer needs to know whether development is likely to affect a 

 particular resource or habitat. What can be done about this insufficiency? 

 Detailed development planning is one possibility, but time and money often 

 are unavailable for such studies, and even they may be able to provide only 

 partial answers. In many such cases, the best approach is to analyze the_ 

 resource to be protected rather than the proposed development. Then it will 

 be possible to determine the sorts of disturbances that might threaten that 

 resource and identify the kinds of secondary development that might cause 

 those disturbances. 



