No partial score can be interpreted or publicized. The checklist cannot be performed by any party receiving pay or other gratuities for the project in question. This would preclude any environmental consultant and any subcontractors hired by development interest from using this checklist or from posting the result of the checklist to mitigate other projects. Only those who do not profit from the project may use the WSL-NFR Institute checklist. Developers or their paid consultants cannot perform this checklist.
Natural landscape is composed of natural features.
It may be virgin areas or second growth areas that have been generally free of cultural occupation. Thus, altered or disturbed areas that have reverted, can revert or are reverting to nature are natural landscapes must not be removed from this category. Truck tire marks through a tundra or a desert do not remove areas from this category. Seminatural landscapes are composed of features that are controlled by human culture, however, people do not live there twenty four hours a day. This would be farm lands, bridges, canals, city parks, landscaping with or without native vegetation gardens, etc.