[TESTING] As a permit purchaser at a national forest, I need to understand firewood harvesting conditions so that I can get a valid permit and get wood safely and legally.

[MelissaBraxton]

Background This story is to ensure that the forest NF page has accurate, complete, understandable information that provides permit purchasers what they need to safely, legally, head out to this specific forest and harvest firewood.

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand general permit conditions specific to this forest
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand safety tips
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand when they can cut/when their permit allows them to cut
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand how current conditions (weather, fire, sales) may impact harvesting
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand where they can/can't get wood on this forest
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand what wood is allowed/prohibited for harvesting
• [ ] Permit purchaser can understand where to go for more information

Tasks

• [ ] Write research plan
• [ ] Write user test script(s)
• [ ] Source and schedule usability sessions
• [ ] Conduct usability testing
• [ ] Develop insight from research data

• [ ] Provide insights summary presentation

  Obtain standardized conditions across all forests

• [ ] Determine how to display information on the page
• [ ] Determine specific language and images needed for the page
• [ ] Conduct usability testing of page

Definition of done

• [ ] Usability tested

[MelissaBraxton]

Typically FS permits are good from the time they're purchased for one year. Although some forests/districts put in the conditions of the permit that there is no cutting after a particular date.

Permit holders have to follow Industrial Fire Precaution Levels (IFPl) conditions, and occasionally, based on fire conditions (IFPL), there will be a partial or complete shutdown, and no one can go into the forest to cut firewood. Not every forest uses the IFPL level system. Fair to assume every most Region/Forests has regulations on working in the forest and fire danger. The forest might have to implement that themselves, varies state to sate.

[carlsonem]

@aQuib make it focused on testing, not gathering the information as this is already done on the individual forest pages