NPS diver at Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
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An NPS diver sketches iron ballast from a shipwreck amid a coral reef at Dry Tortugas National Park (Florida). Diving is a common resource management activity in units of the national park system for making reef observations and monitoring coral reef communities.

Photo Credit: Submerged Cultural Resources Unit, John Brooks

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 Chapter Headline--New Horizons
Every year, natural resource management in the National Park Service advances through the skillful use and development of legal, technological, and administrative tools. As the following articles demonstrate, some gains are the result of individuals with the training, ingenuity, and drive to recognize opportunities to apply existing tools in new ways or modify them for use in new situations. Others are the product of synergism and represent the collective contributions of several partners working toward a well-defined goal. Also evident in this evolutionary process are fortuitous timing, perseverance, and innovation. In 1998 these elements meshed, propelling the state of natural resource management forward toward new horizons.

Articles

President mandates coral reef protection
by James Tilmant

Feral burro removal: New solutions to an old problem
by Christopher J. Stubbs

Doppler technology applied to large-river studies
by Brian L. Cluer

Natural resource information tools make their way to the web
by Jen Coffey

Congress places a positive imprint on park management
by Mike Soukup

Solicitor opinions advance park protection
by Julia Brunner and Carol McCoy

Research and collecting permit procedures revised
by Robert Winfree

Fee demonstration funds bolster natural resource protection
by Abigail Miller

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This article is from Natural Resource Year in Review--1998, published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in June 1999 (publication D-1346)