Natural resource condition assessment for Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
James-Pirri M. 2013. Natural resource condition assessment for Sagamore Hill National Historic Site. Natural Resource Report. NPS/NCBN/NRR—2013/617. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (SAHI), a small historic park located on the north shore of Long Island, NY, preserves the Family home of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. Sagamore Hill served as the “Summer White House” from 1902 until 1908 and the residence of the Roosevelt family until 1948. The park consists of the main house, historic farm buildings, gardens, pastures, agricultural fields, surrounding forest, and a maritime salt marsh/tidal creek/dune/beach complex adjacent to Cold Spring Harbor. The Park’s single greatest resource is the combination of varied natural areas found in close proximity to each other. These diverse resources and their associated flora and fauna provide habitat for a variety of wildlife and the enjoyment of park visitors. This Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA) evaluated the condition of sixteen natural resources related to Biological and Physical Integrity. The biological resources were split into two broad categories representing the park plant communities (upland, salt marsh, and managed field vegetation) and faunal communities (birds, amphibians and reptiles, mammals, dragonflies and damselflies, and salt marsh nekton), while the physical resources were divided into water quality (fresh and estuarine waters), geologic and coastal resources (specifically shoreline extent), air quality (ozone, total wet deposition, and visibility), night sky, and soundscape. A brief discussion for each resource includes the relevance and context for the resource, extent of existing data, reference condition (if available) including metrics and benchmarks, summary of the current status, statement of current condition and trend, confidence in the data used to assess condition and trend, identification of data gaps for the resource, threats and or stressors to the resource, and sources of expertise and literature used to compile information. The statement of condition used a rating system of Good, Caution, Significant Concern, or Unknown, while trends were assessed as Stable, Improving (moving towards a desirable condition), Declining (moving away from a desirable condition), or Unknown.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- James-Pirri, Mary-Jane
- Date of Issue
- 2013-01
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- NRSS , SAHI
- Keywords
- Air Quality, Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, dragonflies and damselflies, estuarine water, faunal communities, Fresh Water, geologic and coastal resources, Mammals, managed field vegetation, Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA), night sky, Ozone, Physical Resources, Plant Communities, Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (SAHI), Salt Marsh, salt marsh nekton, shoreline extent, Soundscape, total wet deposition, Upland, Visibility, Water Quality