Freshwater Wetlands Rapid Assessment Monitoring at Acadia National Park (ACAD) by the Northeast Temperate Network (NETN): 2012-2026 - Data Package - PROTECTED VERSION
Miller KM , Seirup CE , Fitzgerald EE . 2026. Freshwater Wetlands Rapid Assessment Monitoring at Acadia National Park (ACAD) by the Northeast Temperate Network (NETN): 2012-2026 - Data Package - PROTECTED VERSION. National Park Service. Fort Collins CO https://doi.org/10.57830/2320179
The Inventory and Monitoring Division's (IMD) Northeast Temperate Network (NETN) identified freshwater wetlands as a high priority vital sign for long-term monitoring in Acadia National Park (ACAD). The overall goal of this protocol is to monitor status and trends in vegetation, hydrology, soil and water quality, and indicators of wetland condition and stressors in ACAD's freshwater wetlands. NETN uses a three-tiered approach to wetland monitoring, where level 1 is a GIS-based monitoring of landscape condition, level 2 is a rapid field-assessment, and level 3 is an intensive field-assessment. NETN conducts level 3 monitoring in 10 sentinel sites, which were non-randomly selected to represent the best condition of various wetland types in ACAD, and are sampled following protocols developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the National Wetland Condition Assessment (NWCA). During the years between the EPA NWCA, NETN conducts rapid assessment monitoring (RAM; Level 1 and 2) following the USA-Rapid Assessment Manual (USA-RAM) at 40 randomly located wetland sites in ACAD. Note that starting in 2026, the USA-RAM was implemented in the 10 sentinel sites originally sampled for the EPA NWCA. The sentinel site information and RAM data collected in 2026 are included in this data package. The NETN freshwater wetland protocol is comprised of multiple documents, including a narrative, standard operating procedures, a quality assurance plan, a safety plan, a summary of major protocol changes, and Environmental Protection Agency field and lab manuals. The complete protocol package containing the latest version of each of these documents is accessible in the Permanent Freshwater Wetland Monitoring Project in the NPS Data Store (available at: https://irma.nps.gov/Datastore/Reference/Profile/2191722). This data package contains a cumulative record of data (2012 to 2026) collected in the 40 rapid assessment sites (RAM) in ACAD.
- Type
- Data Package
- Authors
- Miller, Kate; Seirup, Camilla; Fitzgerald, Erin
- Date of Issue
- 2026-09-21
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.57830/2320179
- Units
- ACAD
- Keywords
- ACAD, Acadia National Park, bogs, ecosystems, fens, human disturbance, hydrological processes, invasive species, marshes, monitoring, peatland, soil, soil chemistry, species diversity, species richness, vegetation, vegetation dynamics, vital signs, water chemistry, wetlands
- License
- Unlicensed (not for public dissemination)