San Francisco Bay Area Network Vital Signs Monitoring Plan
Adams D, Allen S, Bjork J, Cooprider M, Fesnock A, Koenen M, Leatherman T, O'Neil S, Press D, Shirokauer D, Welch B, Witcher B. 2006. San Francisco Bay Area Network Vital Signs Monitoring Plan. Natural Resource Report. NPS/SFAN/NRR—2006/017
In 2000, the National Park Service (NPS) created 32 networks of NPS units across the United States that were formed and funded to “improve the ability of the NPS to provide state-of-the-art management, protection, and interpretation of and research on the resources on the NPS … and to assure the full and proper utilization of the results of scientific studies for park management decisions” (National Parks Omnibus Management Act of 1998). The San Francisco Bay Area Network (SFAN) is one of eight of these networks in the Pacific West Region of the NPS. The SFAN is composed of eight park units and includes Point Reyes National Seashore, Pinnacles National Monument, John Muir National Historic Site, Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site, and Golden Gate National Recreation Area including Muir Woods National Monument, Fort Point National Historic Site, and Presidio of San Francisco. The network fosters collaboration and creates efficiencies of scale in designing and implementing a natural resource focused Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) program. The SFAN parks are within the Central California Coast Ranges and share many ecological systems and associated anthropogenic influences which include invasions of non-native species, altered fire regimes, degraded air and water quality, heavy recreational pressure, adjacent habitat loss, and climate change with associated sea level rise. The parks are extremely diverse in natural resources and have a unique set of complex management challenges within a densely populated setting. Most of the SFAN units are part of the Central California International Biosphere Reserve (Myers et al 2000), and are part of the California Floristic Province, an area recognized by Conservation International as a hotspot of biodiversity.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Adams, Dawn; Allen, Sarah; Bjork, Jennifer; Cooprider, Mary; Fesnock, Amy; Koenen, Marcus; Leatherman, Tom; O'Neil, Susan; Press, Dave; Shirokauer, Dave; Welch, Brad; Witcher, Brian
- Date of Issue
- 2006-10
- Units
- NRSS , SFAN
- Keywords
- Monitoring Plan, Vital Signs