Natural Resource Condition Assessment for Sitka National Historical Park

Project ID: J8W07100023

Federal Agency: National Park Service

Partner Institution: Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota

Fiscal Year: 2010

Initial Funding: $45,988

Total Funding: $45,988

Project Type: Research

Project Disciplines: Biological

National Park: Southeast 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 Sitka National Historical Park. 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:

• Sitka National Historical Park Natural Resource Condition Assessment (Natural Resource Report)