Cumberland Piedmont Network and Mammoth Cave National Park Prototype Vital Signs Monitoring Plan
Cumberland Piedmont Network. 2005. Cumberland Piedmont Network and Mammoth Cave National Park Prototype Vital Signs Monitoring Plan
The Cumberland Piedmont Network (CUPN) Inventory and Monitoring Program was initiated in January 2001 to conduct biological inventories and examine the status and trends of ecosystem health for its cohort of 14 national parks, battlefields, and historic sites. Within the CUPN, Mammoth Cave National Park (MACA) is the prototype for monitoring the cave-and-karst biome and provides technical expertise and protocol assistance to the other parks in the Network. The CUPN, and every network of parks that received funding from the Natural Resource Program Center to develop an Inventory and Monitoring Program, is required to prepare a monitoring plan that describes the design and implementation of their monitoring program as well as the process that led to the final selection of the Vital Signs to be monitored. Successful completion of the monitoring plan was accomplished in three-phases.
- Type
- Administrative
- Authors
- Cumberland Piedmont Network
- Date of Issue
- 2005-09-27
- Units
- CUPN , MACA
- Keywords
- Network Planning Documents