Integrated upland monitoring in Canyonlands National Park: annual report 2010 (non-sensitive version)
Witwicki D. 2012. Integrated upland monitoring in Canyonlands National Park: annual report 2010 (non-sensitive version). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2012/552.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 Canyonlands 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. It also describes the results of this year’s efforts and plans for future monitoring. In 2010, NCPN completed its fifth year of monitoring at Canyonlands NP, which was the second year of monitoring under the long-term operational sampling design. A total of 48 plots were monitored in Island in the Sky and Needles districts of the park, including 24 grassland plots, 12 shallow blackbrush plots, and 12 pinyon-juniper/blackbrush plots. Early monitoring data describe status of ecological site types; interpretation is limited until additional data are acquired and more rigorously analyzed.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Witwicki, Dana
- Date of Issue
- 2012-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CANY , NCPN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Monitoring, NCPN Uplands Monitoring, Plant Studies, Upland, Uplands