Northern goshawk inventory and monitoring technical guide
Woodbridge B and Hargis CD. 2006. Northern goshawk inventory and monitoring technical guide. U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service General Technical Report. WO-71. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. Washington DC
This technical guide provides information on all aspects of inventory and monitoring related to the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) and is to be used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service consistent with national direction, local priorities, and available funding, and also by interested partners and collaborators. When the protocols described in this technical guide are implemented, the resulting data will meet standards of the Data Quality Act and, therefore, will be legally and scientifically defensible and consistent with data collected elsewhere using the same protocols.... OVERVIEW: This technical guide provides information on all aspects of inventory and monitoring related to the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) and is to be used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service consistent with national direction, local priorities, and available funding, and also by interested partners and collaborators. When the protocols described in this technical guide are implemented, the resulting data will meet standards of the Data Quality Act and, therefore, will be legally and scientifically defensible and consistent with data collected elsewhere using the same protocols. The technical guide is divided into three chapters: an overview, a bioregional monitoring design, and a description of inventory and survey methodologies. The technical guide was written for bioregional monitoring coordinators and their survey teams, biologists at forest and district levels, and any other agencies and organizations interested in northern goshawk inventory and monitoring activities. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the technical guide and describes the business needs that motivate the USDA Forest Service to inventory and monitor goshawks. This chapter also describes the roles and responsibilities of implementing this technical guide and provides the context of goshawk monitoring in relation to other Federal inventory and monitoring programs.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Woodbridge, Brian; Hargis, Christina
- Date of Issue
- 2006-07
- Publisher
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
- Units
- GRBA
- Keywords
- Absence (Biodiversity), Accipiter gentilis (Northern Goshawk), Accipitridae (Eagles Hawks Kites), Animal Studies, Aves (Birds), bioregional monitoring, Ciconiiformes, Ecology, foraging habitat, Forest Structure, forest tupe, lagomorpha, Leporidae (Hares Rabbits), Lepus americanus (Snowshoe Hare), Mammalia (Mammals), Nesting Habitat, Population, Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen), Presence (Biodiversity), Resources Management, Salicaceae (Willows), Salicales, Taxa Links To References, Vascular Plant