Documents Relevant to Designing a
Park Monitoring Program

Download NPS-75  NPS-75 Natural Resource Inventory and Monitoring Guidelines (outdated; currently under revision)

Download Elzinga et al. 1998, Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations   Elzinga, Caryl L., D. W. Salzer, and J. W. Willoughby. 1998. Measuring and monitoring plant populations. BLM Tech. Reference 1730-1. BLM/RS/ST-98/005+1730.

Download Davis 1997  Davis, G. E. 1997. General ecological monitoring program design, implementation, and applications: a case study from Channel Islands National Park, California In: J. K. Reaser and F. Dallmeier (eds.) Measuring and monitoring biodiversity for conservation science and adaptive management. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Download Silsbee and Peterson 1991  Silsbee, D. G. and D. L. Peterson. 1991. Designing and implementing comprehensive long-term inventory and monitoring programs for National Park System lands. National Park Service, Natural Resources Report NPS/NRUW/NRR-91/04.

Download Peterson et al. 1995  Peterson, D. L., D. G. Silsbee, and D. L. Schmoldt. 1995. A planning approach for developing inventory and monitoring programs in national parks. National Park Service, Natural Resources Report NPS/NRUW/NRR-95/16.

Download Roman and Barrett 1999  Roman, C. T. and N. E. Barrett. 1999. Conceptual framework for the development of long-term monitoring protocols at Cape Cod National Seashore. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Coop. National Park Studies Unit, University of Rhode Island.

Download Noon et al. 1999  Noon et al. 1999. Conceptual basis for designing an effectiveness monitoring program. Chpt. 2 in The strategy and design of the effectiveness monitoring program for the Northwest Forest Plan. USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rept. PNW-GTR-437.

Download National Research Council 1990  National Research Council 1990. Managing troubled waters: the fole of marine environmental monitoring. National Academy Press, Washington D.C.

Download McDonald et al. 1998  McDonald, L., T. McDonald, and D. Robertson. 1998. Review of the Denali National Park and Preserve (DENA) long-term ecological monitoring program (LTEM). WEST Tech. Rept. 98-7.

Dale, V. H. and S. C. Beyeler. 2001.   Challenges in the development and use of ecological indicators. Ecological Indicators 1:3-10.

Gibbs, J. P., H. L. Snell and C. E. Causton. 1999.   Effective monitoring for adaptive wildlife management: lessons from the Galapagos Islands. J Wildl Mgmt 63:1055-1065.

Johnson, D. H. 1999.  The insignificance of statistical significance testing. J Wildl Mgmt 63:763-772.

Kurtz, J. C., L. E. Jackson and W. S. Fisher. 2001.  Strategies for evaluating indicators based on guidelines from the EPA's Office of Research and Development. Ecol Indicators 1:49-60.
Noon, B. R., T. A. Spies, and M. G. Raphael. 1999.   Conceptual basis for designing an effectiveness monitoring program. Chpt. 2 in USDA FS Rpt PNW-GTR-437.

Joyce, L. and R. Heitschmidt. 2003.   Indicators for ecological health and diversity on rangelands. Progress report from Sustainable Rangelands Roundtable symposium. See http://sustainablerangelands.cnr.colostate.edu/

Swetham, T.W., C.D. Allen, and J.L. Betancourt, 1999. Applied historical ecology: using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 9(4):1189-1206. See http://www.fort.usgs.gov/products/Publications/258/258.pdf).