Pacific Northwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)

Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve

Project ID: J8W07100024

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

Fiscal Year: 2010

Initial Funding: $98,224

Total Funding: $98,224

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Biological

National Park: Central Alaska Network Inventory & Monitoring

Principal Investigator: Drazkowski, Barry

Agreement Technical Representative: Wesser, Sara

Abstract: This project will provide an assessment of natural resource conditions for Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Through compilation and synthesis of existing scientific information from multiple sources, and expert judgment from an interdisciplinary team of specialists, this project will: characterize park biological and physical resource conditions at appropriate scale(s); define threat and stress factors and their relationship to identified resources; identify critical data gaps; and suggest data collection or resource investigations to address those gaps. Resource conditions and threat and stressor factors will be evaluated and depicted spatially (as possible) to facilitate use of project findings in a wide variety of park decision and planning processes, and for use in park reporting to the Department of Interior’s Strategic Plan land health goals.

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