Integrated upland monitoring in Capitol Reef National Park: annual report 2010 (non-sensitive version)
Witwicki D. 2012. Integrated upland monitoring in Capitol Reef National Park: annual report 2010 (non-sensitive version). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2012/540.N. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
The goal of the Northern Colorado Plateau Network (NCPN) integrated upland monitoring effort is to provide park managers with status and trend information on vegetation and soil attributes. This information is intended to determine natural variability of upland resources and provide early warning of resource degradation. This report summarizes NCPN upland monitoring in Capitol Reef National Park (NP) during 2010. It outlines goals and objectives of NCPN upland monitoring, methods of the upland monitoring protocol, and procedures for defining and mapping target populations for monitoring, and describes the results of this year’s efforts and plans for future monitoring. In 2010, NCPN completed its fourth year of monitoring at Capitol Reef NP, which was the first year of monitoring under the long-term operational sampling design. A total of 48 plots were established and monitored, including 16 deep grassland plots in the retired Cathedral and Rock Springs allotments, and 16 deep grassland plots and 16 rocky grassland plots in the Hartnet allotment, which is still actively grazed by livestock. In this report, measures were summarized for each ecological site type by allotment. Early monitoring data describe status of ecological site types, and interpretation is limited until additional data is acquired and more rigorously analyzed.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Witwicki, Dana
- Date of Issue
- 2012-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CARE , NCPN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Monitoring, NCPN Uplands Monitoring, Plant Studies, Upland, Uplands