Standard Operating Procedure 5: Measuring Response Variables. Version 1. Monitoring Protocol for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve and City of Rocks National Reserve.
Conway CJ, Garton EO, Dicus GH, Lonneker JJ. 2018. Standard Operating Procedure 5: Measuring Response Variables. Version 1. Monitoring Protocol for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve and City of Rocks National Reserve.. Unpublished National Park Service Report, Upper Columbia Basin Inventory and Monitoring Network, Moscow, Idaho.
The purpose of this SOP is to describe the procedures for measuring response variables along lek survey routes for the purposes of long-term monitoring of sage-grouse at CRMO and CIRO. This SOP begins where SOPs 2, 3, and 4 leave off, with field preparations complete, crews trained and setup with equipment and field reference maps.
- Type
- Standard Operating Procedure
- Authors
- Conway, Courtney; Garton, Edward; Dicus, Gordon; Lonneker, Jeffrey
- Date of Issue
- 2018
- Publisher
- Unpublished National Park Service Report, Upper Columbia Basin Inventory and Monitoring Network, Moscow, Idaho.
- Units
- CIRO , CRMO , UCBN
- Keywords
- Greater sage-grouse
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Birds