A nonnative African oryx (gemsbok) is readied for helicopter removal from White Sands National Monument to neighboring White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The new NPS Biological Resource Management Division provided a wildlife capture specialist and a veterinarian, on staff, and through a new task agreement with the Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine, a veterinary resident (shown here), and a veterinary medicine technician. Eighty-two oryx were removed from the monument in 2000 using nonlethal methods.
Natural Resource Challenge funds Exotic Plant Management Teams
By Linda Drees and Gary Johnston
Inventory and Monitoring Program benefits from the Natural Resource Challenge
By Gary Williams
CESUs and the inventory and monitoring networks:
A case of good timing
By Kathy Tonnessen, Ron Hiebert, and Larry Norris
Connecting the public, scientists, and resources through learning centers
By Don Neubacher
Four new cooperative ecosystem studies units established
Natural resource project funding increased
Geologic Resources Division expands expertise
Award-Winner Profile - Gary Machlis receives Conservation Service Award
Home
 |
|||||
 |
In FY 2000 the Challenge dedicated $3.449 million to establishing and operating the Biological Resource Management Division. The division—a new part of the Natural Resource Program Center—is responsible for policy formulation, planning, training, coordination, and implementation of biological resource management activities and programs of broad national importance. It focuses on nonnative species management and ecosystem restoration, threatened and endangered species, and wildlife management. In addition to funding the four EPMTs, the Natural Resource Challenge funds were spent in support of the Department of Interior’s Invasive Species Council, to obtain technical assistance from CESUs, and to implement exotic plant management projects in parks. The division now includes a division chief, a liaison with the Washington, D.C. staff, a chief of the Exotic Species and Restoration Branch, two integrated pest management coordinators, two endangered species specialists, an ecosystem restoration specialist, a wildlife biologist who assists parks in capturing and moving large animals, and a wildlife veterinarian who addresses wildlife diseases in parks. These biologists are augmenting the Park Service’s efforts to preserve, protect, and manage biological resources and related ecosystem processes in the national park system. | |
 |
||
This material is from Natural Resource Year in Review--2000, published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in May 2000 (publication D-1459)
/YearInReview/yir/yir2000/pages/01_confluence/01_07_sidebar_species.html
Last Updated: 06/17/2001
Direct comments on this website to jeff_selleck@nps.gov