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.
Deliverables:
- Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve Natural Resource Condition Assessment (Natural Resource Report)