National Park Service Inventory & Monitoring Program

National Park managers across the country are confronted with increasingly complex and challenging issues that require a broad-based understanding of the status and trends of each park's natural resources as a basis for making decisions, working with other agencies, and communicating with the public to protect park natural systems and native species. As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data and to contribute to the Service's institutional knowledge by facilitating the transformation of data into information...

Categories: Web Site; Tags: Climate Inventory, Geologic Resources Inventory, Soil Resources Inventory, Species Lists, Species Occurrence and Distribution, All tags... Vegetation Inventory, Fewer tags