The system will be expressive of objectives, desires, and aspirations of citizens expressed in many forms, all possibly grouped under the five categories of Ecology, Energetics, Esthetics, Economics, and Enforcement. These are major perspectives, approaches, or emphases that experts take. The five are listed with examples of their planned subsystems.

Ecology

• system components include
• biodiversity analyses
• threatened and endangered species
• regional ecosystem analyses and classification
• landscape ecology analyses
• wildlife management
• fisheries management
• climatic change
• impact analyses and assessments
• cumulative impact analyses
• wetland management

  Energetics

• embodied energy analyses
• net-energy budgets
• fossil energy conservation system
• biomass analyses
• solar radiation analyses
• waste-energy systems
• energy-based ecosystem analyses

  Esthetics

• viewscape analyses of point viewing from the area and to the area
• animal and plant esthetics
• scene analyses
• roadside analyses
• site-specific landscape analyses
• regional landscape viewscape analyses
• recreational opportunity analyses
• scenic waterway analyses
• citizen value system analyses

  Economics

• project cost estimates
• multiple benefit-cost analyses with assumption sets
• minimum-monetary-value analyses
• historical budget analyses
• benefit analyses
• risk analyses
• substitution analyses
• client base
• operating funds over time

  Enforcement

• major laws
• legislative initiatives
• liability and insurance
• game and fishing law enforcement; a wildlife law enforcement system
• pollution law enforcement
• agency rules and regulations
• national policy