Evaluation of fire effects and restoration progress through 21 years of prairie vegetation monitoring at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, 1982–2005
Williams MH, Leis SA, Christiansen P. 2007. Evaluation of fire effects and restoration progress through 21 years of prairie vegetation monitoring at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, 1982–2005. Natural Resource Technical Report. NPS/HTLN/NRTR—2007/052. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado
Twenty one years of prairie vegetation monitoring data were analyzed with occasion of prescribed fire to determine trends in vegetation diversity. The legacy data has provided a foundation for continued long-term analysis of the reconstructed prairie. In this report, we describe management and monitoring of the reconstructed prairie limited to Dr. Christiansen's permanent transects. These data, incorporated into an existing HTLN data management system, will be available for making comparisons to data generated within the newly installed HTLN sites. Separate reports will describe comparisons of the two data sets. It is the goal of this report and the HTLN’s long-term ecological monitoring to provide park resource managers continued feedback on effective plant community monitoring to assess management strategies in maintaining or restoring prairie community composition, structure, and diversity.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Williams, Michael; Leis, Sherry; Christiansen, Paul
- Date of Issue
- 2007-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- HEHO , HTLN , NRSS
- Keywords
- HTLN Fire Ecology Monitoring, HTLN Plant Communities Brief, HTLN Plant Communities Monitoring