The socioeconomic monitoring program of the Pacific Northwest Interagency Regional Monitoring Program went through three phases of development between 1999 and 2005. Volume VI provides a history of the socioeconomic monitoring program, detailing each phase of its development and discussing challenges associated with socioeconomic monitoring at the community scale. Volume VI also evaluates the socioeconomic monitoring plan in the Northwest Forest Plan record of decision, and whether the questions, goals, and monitoring items are still relevant 10 years later. We provide recommendations for future monitoring.