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Print RRT 496 Intro (pdf file) Human Impacts: Magnitude, Significance & Acceptability
  Monitoring Definitions
print Criteria to Guide Selection of Indicators (pdf file) Criteria to Guide Selection of Indicators
     
  Wilderness Character Monitoring in Saguaro National Park and Chiricahua National Park

by Jesse Engebretson

  Natural Resource Monitoring Program: Upper Columbia Basin Network

by Gordon Dicus, Program Manager

February 2013

Print Recreation Carrying Capacity Notes (pdf file) Recreation Carrying Capacity: Fact or Fiction?
  Limits of Acceptable Change: An Alternative Implementation of Carrying Capacity
  LAC Chart
print  Monitoring Impacts to Soils pdf file   Monitoring Impacts to Soils
print  Cryptogramic Crust article .pdf file Cole, David N. 1991. Trampling disturbance and recovery of cryptogamic soil crusts in Grand Canyon National Park. Great Basin Naturalist Brigham Young University 50(4): 321-325.
 
  Trampling Imparts to Vegetation
     
  Measuring the Area of Campsites
  Campsite Inventory & Impact Evaluation Form, page 1
  Campsite Impact Evaluation Form, page 2
  Table 8. Indicators to monitor Vegetation conditions in wilderness
Print 5-page list of exotic weed species (pdf file) Stark, N. 1987. Exotic Weed Species Found in Wilderness
In-class presentation by Dr. Troy Hall Hall, Troy. 2006. Monitoring Change at Wilderness Campsites: Lessons from 26 Years. (in-class presentation)
   

Water Quality Monitoring

 

  Monitoring Air Quality Impacts on Wilderness
  Air Quality Monitoring in Parks & Protected Areas
  IMPROVE (Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environments)
 
   
How to Crap in the Woods
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print Suggested  Revegetation Practices pdf file   Suggested Revegetation Practices in North Cascades National Park
  Manning, R.E. & B. Wang. 1998. Social science in the National Park System: an assessment of visitor information. Park Science, Vol 18 No. 1
     
  Cole, David N. 1989. Area of vegetation loss: a new index of campsite impact. Res. Note INT-389. Ogden, UT: USDA For. Serv., Intermountain Research Station 51p.
  Understanding and Managing Invasive Plants in Wilderness and Other Natural Areas
  Monitoring Human Impacts to Wildlife
     
  Oakley, K. L., L. P. Thomas, and S. G. Fancy.  2003.  Guidelines for long-term monitoring protocols.  Wildlife Society Bulletin 31:1000-1003.
  Inventory & Monitoring of Visitor Experiences
  A National Program to Monitor Wilderness Character by Troy Hall
  Monitoring Wilderness Experience Quality
by Brad Johnson  (1Mb .pdf file)
   

Effects of Anthropogenic Noise & Natural Sound on Visitor Experiences

   

Fire Policy and Monitoring

   
 
Designing a Monitoring Program
  Upper Columbia Basin Network Inventory & Monitoring Program, Lisa Garrett, NPS
  NPS Inventory and Monitoring in the Upper Columbia Basin Network
     
     
Monitoring Exercise 1

Monitoring Exercise 2

Monitoring Exercise 3

  Monitoring Exercise 4

Monitoring Exercise 5

Monitoring Protocol Assignment    
    PRESENTATION GUIDELINES for MONITORING EXERCISE
  Exam 1 Study Guide for 2013
Exam 2 Study Guide for 2013