The
NPS is implementing Inventory & Monitoring programs nationwide
though a series of 32 networks. The National Capital Region
Network (NCRN) is based at the Center for Urban Ecology and
coordinates biological inventories and long-term monitoring
of natural resources found within the eleven parks of the National
Capital Region (NCR). Inventories include vegetation, geology,
and soils maps, air, and water quality data and assessments,
and the presence and distribution of species, particularly vertebrates
and vascular plants. Long-term ecological monitoring programs
designed to identify trends in ecosystem conditions are also
being developed and implemented to provide park managers with
the necessary information to evaluate their management strategies
and confront and mitigate threats to the park's resources. The
completion of these basic inventories and the development of
protocols for long-term monitoring are being accomplished through
partnerships with other government agencies as well as through
the Chesapeake Watershed Cooperative
Ecosystem Studies Unit and other university collaborations.
At CUE, other management programs, such as vegetation,
wildlife, geology,
air, and water
resources, work with the I&M Program on interdisciplinary
studies.
Contact: J. Patrick Campbell
I&M Network Coordinator
National Park Service
Center for Urban Ecology
4598 MacArthur Blvd NW
Washington, DC 20007
The
NPS is implementing Inventory & Monitoring programs nationwide
though a series of 32 networks. The National Capital Region
Network (NCRN) is based at the Center for Urban Ecology and
coordinates biological inventories and long-term monitoring
of natural resources found within the eleven parks of the National
Capital Region (NCR). Inventories include vegetation, geology,
and soils maps, air, and water quality data and assessments,
and the presence and distribution of species, particularly vertebrates
and vascular plants. Long-term ecological monitoring programs
designed to identify trends in ecosystem conditions are also
being developed and implemented to provide park managers with
the necessary information to evaluate their management strategies
and confront and mitigate threats to the park's resources. The
completion of these basic inventories and the development of
protocols for long-term monitoring are being accomplished through
partnerships with other government agencies as well as through
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