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Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Natural Resource Monitoring

Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Natural Resource Monitoring. The Heartland I&M Network. What is the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network? How does the network affect park management and interpretation? What do you need to know about the network?.

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Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Natural Resource Monitoring

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  1. Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Natural Resource Monitoring

  2. The Heartland I&M Network What is the Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network? How does the network affect park management and interpretation? What do you need to know about the network?

  3. Cultural and Natural Significance of Heartland Network Parks Protecting the Habitat of Our Heritage • Free Flowing Rivers and Streams • Presidents • Deciduous Forests • Civil War battlefields • Prairies and Savannas • Native Americans • Wetlands • Westward Expansion

  4. Natural Resource Challenge Revitalize and expand the natural resource program within the park service and improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge

  5. Overview of Vital Signs Monitoring Looking at systems on an ecological scale

  6. Purpose of Monitoring Determine the status/trends in resource condition • Assess the effects of management and restoration efforts • Provide early warning of impending threats • Provide a basis for understanding change in natural systems.

  7. I&M Networks Network Websites: click area of interest Network Websites: click area of interest

  8. Heartland I&M Network

  9. Vital Signs Monitoring – 3 Characteristics • Long-term, monitoring • Integration and coordination • Information management

  10. Monitoring for Park Managers use Inventory and monitoring are critical for cost effective, accountable resource management informed by scientific information.

  11. Management Needs for Information Recreation, Health and Safety Restoration and Exotic Plant Management Maintaining Landscapes Effects of Prescribed Fire

  12. Connecting through Communicating Plan: importance and methods of communication. Containing a CD/DVD with ready to use products and templates “People will only protect what they love, love what they understand, and understand what they are taught.” (Senegalese saying)

  13. Example of Matrix Entry

  14. NB DVD with audio, video, and publications for all HTLN parks To familiarize stakeholders, partners and the public with NPS monitoring activities

  15. Examples: Materials for staff communication

  16. Examples: Materials for visitor communication

  17. Banners to Loan Double banner is one-sided panels Single banners are double-sided panels

  18. Website

  19. Please Become Part of the Effort • Read The Weather Vane • Peruse the HTLN web site • Use Communication Plan and DVDs • Create new materials or project ideas • Borrow or request materials from HTLN • Accompany Heartland staff into the field

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