The latest concept is of the plan for a military base or for a landowner available on a web site. The plan would have security. The landowner would be able to call up his or her plan at any time, see color images, maps, and the latest information about the plan. Models for components of everyone's plans are managed and improved from a central office but each person's or agency's plan remains directed to their individual objectives.
Guidance is a large, complicated system under continual development.
It is a system that produces a plan for each of many areas such as a system of parks, forests, refuges, military areas, or wildlife management areas. Of course it can produce a plan for a single ownership. Each document or product provides guidance to managers who have the knowledge of local situations, expertise, and responsibility for decision making. Such decision making is typical for complex natural resource systems. Such system invariably have conflicting objectives and require trade-offs.