Download or read book Alpine and Subalpine Vegetation Monitoring Protocol for the North Coast and Cascade written by National Park National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subalpine and alpine areas are ecologically important zones that provide popular recreational opportunities for visitors to Mount Rainier (MORA), North Cascades (NOCA), and Olympic (OLYM) National Parks. The subalpine parkland is a mosaic of tree clumps and herbaceous meadows extending from forestline to treeline. The sparsely vegetated alpine zone continues up to the permanent ice and snow cover the peaks of the Cascades and Olympics. Collectively, the subalpine and alpine zones comprise the alpine treeline ecotone - a transition between the closed canopy forests below and bare rock or ice covering the mountain or ridge tops. Vegetation distribution and composition in this zone is primarily determined by low temperatures, snow depth, and duration of snow cover and therefore is very sensitive to climate change.
Download or read book Mid Atlantic Network Forest Vegetation Monitoring Protocol written by James A. Comiskey and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors details the forest vegetation monitoring protocol which is designed to inventory and monitor forest vegetation in nine parks of the national Park Service (NPS) Mid-atlantic Network (MIDN) and three parks of the Northeast Coastal and barrier Network (NCBN) as part of the Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M).
Download or read book Ross Lake National Recreation Area N R A General Management Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wildlife Techniques Manual written by Nova J. Silvy and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 1133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A standard text in a variety of courses, the Techniques Manual, as it is commonly called, covers every aspect of modern wildlife management and provides practical information for applying the hundreds of methods described in its pages. To effectively incorporate the explosion of new information in the wildlife profession, this latest edition is logically organized into a two-volume set: Volume 1 is devoted to research techniques and Volume 2 focuses on management methodologies.
Download or read book Funding the Natural Resource Challenge a Report to Congress Fiscal Year written by United States. National Park Service and published by . This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vegetation Monitoring written by Caryl L. Elzinga and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annotated bibliography documents literature addressing the design and implementation of vegetation monitoring. It provides resources managers, ecologists, and scientists access to the great volume of literature addressing many aspects of vegetation monitoring: planning and objective setting, choosing vegetation attributes to measure, sampling design, sampling methods, statistical and graphical analysis, and communication of results. Over half of the 1400 references have been annotated. Keywords pertaining to the type of monitoring or method are included with each bibliographic entry. Keyword index.
Download or read book Air Pollution and Its Impacts on U S National Parks written by Timothy J. Sullivan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-02-03 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A variety of air pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere from human-caused and natural emissions sources throughout the United States and elsewhere. These contaminants impact sensitive natural resources in wilderness, including the national parks. The system of national parks in the United States is among our greatest assets. This book provides a compilation and synthesis of current scientific understanding regarding the causes and effects of these pollutants within national park lands. It describes pollutant emissions, deposition, and exposures; it identifies the critical (tipping point) loads of pollutant deposition at which adverse impacts are manifested.
Download or read book Vegetation and Soil Monitoring Protocol for the Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network Version 2 written by Stepanie Perles and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This protocol outlines the justification, objectives, and procedures developed for long-term monitoring of vegetation and soil throughout the National Parks Service's (NPS) Eastern Rivers and Mountains Network (ERMN) within the Inventory and Monitoring Program. Included in this protocol are: (1) background, rationale, and objectives for monitoring of vegetation and soil, (2) sampling design, (3) field methods, (4) data management, analysis, and reporting, (5) personnel requirements and training, and (6) operational requirements. Detailed Standard Operating Procedures that describe how all aspects of the protocol are implemented are included at the end of this document.
Download or read book Remote Sensing of Protected Lands written by Yeqiao Wang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National parks, wildlife refuges and sanctuaries, natural reserves, conservation areas, frontier lands, and marine-protected areas are increasingly recognized as essential providers of ecosystem services and biological resources. As debates about climate change and sustainability intensify, protected areas become more important as indicators of eco
Download or read book Forest Vegetation Monitoring Mid Atlantic Network 2011 Summary Report written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, 75 forest vegetation monitoring plots that were established in 2007 in eight parks of the Mid-Atlantic Network were revisited. Sixteen new plots were established in three Northeast Coastal and Barrier Network parks. New plots were randomly selected using a generalized random-tessellation stratified (GRTS) approach from a 250-m grid that overlays the parks. The monitoring plots consist of a 20 m x 20 m square with three nested microplots and 12 quadrats.
Download or read book Funding the Natural Resource Challenge a report to Congress fiscal year written by United States. National Park Service. Natural Resource Stewardship and Science and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Framework for Long term Ecological Monitoring in Olympic National Park written by Kurt Jeffrey Jenkins and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rare Woodland and Forest Community Monitoring Protocol for Acadia National Park written by Geraldine L. Tierney and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-06-30 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acadia National Park (ACAD) lies within a transition zone of the Maine coastline, containing ecological communities typical of both southwestern and “downeast” coastal Maine. Eleven of these communities, or “associations” as defined within the United States National Vegetation Classification, are rare within the state of Maine, and one is globally rare. The NPS Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) is establishing a long-term forest monitoring program in 10 national park units within the northeastern US. This program is designed to detect trends in forest condition. At ACAD, the network has installed 176 permanent forest plots. This sample size will allow detection of trends in park forests overall, as well as in some specific ecological communities. However, this effort will not yield sufficient sample sizes in rare community associations to assess trends in the condition of these communities. Rare communities are of particular management and conservation interest at ACAD, because they are rare and because they may be particularly sensitive to anthropogenic (human caused) impacts. This protocol was designed to provide data for the assessment of status and trend in rare woodland and forest communities within ACAD, and was adapted from the NETN Long-term Forest Monitoring Protocol.
Download or read book Vegetation Classification of Mount Rainier North Cascades and Olympic National Parks written by Rex Charles Crawford and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North Coast and Cascades Network Climate Monitoring Report written by National Park National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate and weather events define the ecological characteristics found in National Parks and are key to understanding and interpreting changes in natural resources. Everyday park operations including fire management, natural resource activities, maintenance of park infrastructure, and visitor use are influenced by weather. Monitoring weather and maintaining climate records provides essential information to support park operations and monitor park resources.
Download or read book North Coast and Cascades Network Climate Monitoring Report Ebey s Landing National Historical Reserve and San Juan Island National Historical Park Water Year 2010 written by National Park National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate and weather events define the ecological characteristics found in national parks and are key to understanding and interpreting changes in natural resources. Everyday park operations including fire management, natural resource activities, maintenance of park infrastructure, and visitor use are influenced by weather. Monitoring weather and maintaining climate records provides essential information to support park operations and monitor park resources.
