Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area
Project ID: J8W07100040
Federal Agency: National Park Service
Partner Institution: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
Fiscal Year: 2010
Initial Funding: $35,000
Total Funding: $70,000
Project Type: Research
Project Disciplines: Biological
National Park: Greater Yellowstone Network
Principal Investigator: Drazkowski, Barry
Agreement Technical Representative: Jean, Cathie
Abstract: The project is Phase I of a two phased assessment of natural resource conditions for Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area. Through compilation and synthesis of existing scientific and information from multiple sources, and expert judgment from an interdisciplinary team of specialists, this collaborative 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 are 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:
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