Biological Species Inventories

The core goals of the Inventory Program are:

1. To document through existing, verifiable data and targeted field investigations the occurrence of at least 90 percent of the species of vertebrates and vascular plants currently estimated to occur in the parks.
2. To describe the distribution and relative abundance of species of special concern, such as Threatened and Endangered species, exotics, and other species of special management interest occurring within park boundaries.
3. To provide the baseline information needed to develop a general monitoring strategy and design that can be implemented by parks once inventories have been completed, tailored to specific park threats and resource issues.
4. To develop a coordinated network data management effort which results in readily available biological resource information for within-park management, as well as regional resource managers, scientists, and the public.

The inventory final reports and summaries can be downloaded from the MOJN internet Reports and Publications web page (http://science.nature.nps.gov/im/units/MOJN/rpts_pubs/rpts_pubs_main.cfm).