Integrated upland monitoring in Cedar Breaks National Monument: annual report 2011 (non-sensitive version)
Witwicki D. 2013. Integrated upland monitoring in Cedar Breaks National Monument: annual report 2011 (non-sensitive version). Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/NCPN/NRTR—2013/695.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 provide early warning of resource degradation and determine natural variability of upland resources. This report summarizes NCPN upland monitoring at Cedar Breaks National Monument (NM) during 2011. 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. This was the third year of monitoring forests and meadows above the rim at Cedar Breaks NM, and eight plots were visited. Early monitoring data describe status of vegetation; interpretation is limited until additional data are acquired and more rigorously analyzed after at least five years of monitoring are complete.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Witwicki, Dana
- Date of Issue
- 2013-02
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- CEBR , NCPN , NRSS
- Keywords
- Monitoring, NCPN Uplands Monitoring, Plant Studies, Upland, Uplands