Inventories

Natural resource inventories are being conducted in Gulf Coast Network park units for a range of natural resources, including the presence and distribution of vertebrate animals and vascular plants, vegetation, soils, and geologic features.

As part of the Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge", a primary purpose of the Inventory and Monitoring Program is to develop, organize, and make available natural resource data and to contribute to the Service's institutional knowledge by facilitating the transformation of data into information through analysis, synthesis, and modeling. The I&M Program's efforts to identify, catalog, organize, structure, archive, and make available relevant natural resource information will largely determine the Program's efficacy and image among critics, peers and advocates.

Baseline Inventories

• Natural Resource Bibliography
• Base Cartography Data
• Air Resources
• Air Quality Data
• Air Quality Related Values
• Climate Inventory
• Biological Resources
• Geologic Resources Inventory
• Water Body Location and Classificaiton
• Vegetation Inventory
• Baseline Water Quality Data
• Species List
• Species Occurance and Distribution