Inventories

In the mid-1990's, the NPS Inventory and Monitoring Program began a long-term initiative to complete a set of 12 basic natural resource inventories for each NPS unit with significant natural resources. This effort is ongoing and scheduled for completion in 2010. In 2000, as part of this overall inventory effort, vertebrate and vascular plant inventories were begun in all 32 I&M Networks. Later that year, the Appalachian Highlands and Cumberland Piedmont Networks completed a joint Inventory Study Plan, which laid out a sampling design and general methods for conducting inventories for these taxonomic groups. APHN inventories (including vegetation mapping) were initiated in 2001 and are nearing completion. An inventory status table and links to completed documents follows:

(Click below for a public release version (PDF) of each inventory report. Active links are in brown. "Certified" indicates that species information has been reviewed for accuracy and incorporated into NPSpecies.)

Inventory Status

PARK	VEGETATION MAPPING	VASCULAR PLANTS	AMPHIBIANS	BIRDS	FISH	MAMMALS	REPTILES
BISO	-Draft maps complete -Accuracy assessment planned for 2008	Field work complete; draft report received CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Draft report complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED
BLRI	-Draft maps complete -Accuracy assessment planned for 2008-2009	Field work complete; draft report received CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Draft report complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED
GRSM	Maps and Accuracy Assessment Complete	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED
OBRI	-Draft maps complete -Accuracy assessment 2007 through 2008	Field work complete; draft report received CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Draft report complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED	Complete CERTIFIED

Cooperators

Dr. Susan Loeb -US Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Department of Forest Resources, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634
Dr. Eric Britzke – Clemson University (formerly), Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, Clemson SC 29634
Ed Scott – TVA Resource Stewardship, PO Box 1589, Norris, TN 37828
CFI – Conservation Fisheries, Inc., 3424 Division Street, Knoxville, TN 37919 (Pat Rakes, J. R. Shute)
Accipiter Biological Consultants, PO Box 16332, Portal, AZ 85632 (Tom and Nancy Hays)
Natureserve – 614 Fayetteville Road, Suite 109, Durham, NC 27713 (Rickie White, Jr.)
Steve & Barbara Stedman – Tennessee Technological University, 2675 Lakeland Drive (home), Cookeville TN, 38506
John MacGregor – Biological Consultant, 102 Rest K Court, Nicholasville, KY 40356
Doug Stephens – Stephens’ Biological Consulting, PO Box 243, 43 South Hwy 1651, Whitley City, KY 42653
Third Rock Biological Consultants – 2514 Regency Road, Suite 104, Lexington, KY 40503 (Gerry Fister)
Dr. Scott Pearson, Alan Smith– Mars Hill College, 57 Angel Road, Mars Hill, NC 28754
University of Georgia – Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science, Department of Geography, Athens, GA 30602 (Dr. Marguerite Madden, Director)