LCAS Video Test

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  Wall to Wall

  Canyon de Chelly National Monument preserves archaeological, historical, cultural and natural resources representing nearly 4000 years of human occupation by Ancestral Pueblo Indians, and historic and modern-day Navajo peoples. However, invasive plant infestations of tamarisk and Russian olive trees have altered stream channels and riparian ecosystems, and threaten traditional farming and ethnological uses by Navajo peoples. This video, created by Yffy Yossifor, Cassandra Chee and Brittany Tabor, chronicles how the National Park Service worked with residents of the canyon to restore it to the condition that the Navajo elders remember, when vegetation did not choke the canyon floor, and the canyon was visible from wall to wall.

  Duration:

  9 minutes, 31 seconds

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  Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

  Tragedy, Hope & Land that Provides.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 50 seconds

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  70 years of montane forest change in Grand Canyon National Park

  The chance rediscovery in Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) of an early 1900s dataset used to create the park’s first vegetation map led to a rare opportunity to examine forest change in the park since 1935. In 2004, ecologist John Vankat led an effort to resample the historical plots, and shares his conclusions about forest development and the wide range of ecological conditions characterizing GRCA ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, and spruce-fir forests.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 8 seconds

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  Integrated Upland Vegetation Monitoring

  Since 2007, the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network has been annually monitoring vegetation and soils in national parks on the southern Colorado Plateau, focusing on the ecosystems of greatest concern to park managers. In this podcast, recorded in August 2010, botanist Megan Swan describes the objectives and methods used in monitoring upland vegetation; and George San Miguel, natural resource manager for Mesa Verde National Park, explains why monitoring is important to natural resource management.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 4 seconds

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  Wall to Wall

  Canyon de Chelly National Monument preserves archaeological, historical, cultural and natural resources representing nearly 4000 years of human occupation by Ancestral Pueblo Indians, and historic and modern-day Navajo peoples. However, invasive plant infestations of tamarisk and Russian olive trees have altered stream channels and riparian ecosystems, and threaten traditional farming and ethnological uses by Navajo peoples. This video, created by Yffy Yossifor, Cassandra Chee and Brittany Tabor, chronicles how the National Park Service worked with residents of the canyon to restore it to the condition that the Navajo elders remember, when vegetation did not choke the canyon floor, and the canyon was visible from wall to wall.

  Duration:

  9 minutes, 31 seconds

• 

  Washita Battlefield National Historic Site

  Tragedy, Hope & Land that Provides.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 50 seconds

• 

  70 years of montane forest change in Grand Canyon National Park

  The chance rediscovery in Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) of an early 1900s dataset used to create the park’s first vegetation map led to a rare opportunity to examine forest change in the park since 1935. In 2004, ecologist John Vankat led an effort to resample the historical plots, and shares his conclusions about forest development and the wide range of ecological conditions characterizing GRCA ponderosa pine, mixed conifer, and spruce-fir forests.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 8 seconds

• 

  Integrated Upland Vegetation Monitoring

  Since 2007, the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network has been annually monitoring vegetation and soils in national parks on the southern Colorado Plateau, focusing on the ecosystems of greatest concern to park managers. In this podcast, recorded in August 2010, botanist Megan Swan describes the objectives and methods used in monitoring upland vegetation; and George San Miguel, natural resource manager for Mesa Verde National Park, explains why monitoring is important to natural resource management.

  Duration:

  6 minutes, 4 seconds