Resources management plan

Tuzigoot National Monument

March 1994 revision to the Resources Management Plan. The management objectives listed for natural and cultural resources are: - Preserve and protect prehistoric and historic structures and objects. - Manage the collection of cultural objects so they do not deteriorate. - Preserve and protect water resources. - Cooperate and plan with government agencies and community groups to protect the integrity of the cultural and natural environment within and surrounding the monument. - Preserve the ecological processes of the abiotic resources and biotic components in a manner to perpetuate native species and suppress non-native species. - Preserve the cultural and natural landscape. - Maintain natural resources, when appropriate, as they appeared to the first European explorers. - Gather data through research programs and other studies in archeology, history, natural science, visitor use, and land use for information pertinent to managing and interpreting resources in the monument. - Monitor cultural and natural resources. - Determine visitor characteristics, impacts, and carrying capacity. - Manage developed zones in order to allow use with the least possible human impact on cultural and natural areas. Management issues in protecting natural and cultural resources are: - Lack of resources staff and fiscal erosion. - Lack of basic resource data. - Lack of information management system. - Deterioration of primary cultural resources. - Adjacent land uses. - Increasing visitation and trespass. - Surface water diminution. - Stream channel alteration. - Water pollution. - Non-native species invasion.