Results of scoping workshops to identify monitoring issues for national park units in the Great Lakes Network
Route B. 2003. Results of scoping workshops to identify monitoring issues for national park units in the Great Lakes Network. Great Lakes Network Reports. GLKN/2003/07. Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network. Ashland, Wisconsin
The National Park Service’s Great Lakes Inventory and Monitoring Network held scoping workshops at each of the nine member park units to identify current efforts, new issues, and priority themes for long-term ecological monitoring. One hundred-fifty individuals, primarily park staff, participated in the workshops. Participants identified 214 ongoing monitoring efforts at the nine parks and listed 216 issues to consider for future monitoring. New issues can be grouped into 17 categories including water quality, visitor use, land use change, exotic plants and animals, mammal populations, bird populations, invertebrate communities, and others. An attempt to prioritize new issues into programmatic themes resulted in similar groupings. The top three themes included water quality/ aquatic integrity, land use and landscape change, and exotic plants and animals.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Route, Bill
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Publisher
- Great Lakes Inventory & Monitoring Network
- Units
- GLKN
- Keywords
- Bird Populations, exotic plants and animals, land use change, Long-Term Monitoring, Mammal Populations, Water Quality