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 Natural Resource Year in Review--2001; National Park Service; U.S. Department of the Interior: Natural Resource Program Center; Natural Resource Information Division Red grouper, Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida; by Dr. Jiangang Luo, University of Miami
A portrait of the year in natural resource stewardship and science in the National Park System
"The marine world may be degrading faster than our terrestrial one as pollutants pour into it from the land and sky, and stocks of many species decline from overfishing." --National Park System Advisory Board

Table of Contents

Year At A Glance

Foreword

Introduction

1. Meeting the Challenge

2. Science-Based Management

3. National Parks as Laboratories

4. Marine and Costal Resource Protection

5. Managing Risks

6. Restoration

7. Collaboration and Public Participation

8. Looking Ahead

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(Top) A red grouper pauses on the seabed of Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida, surrounded by gorgonian soft coral, sponges, and algae. Designation of a research natural area in the national park in 2001 will help protect important nurseries for sea life throughout the region.
Dr. Jiangang Luo, University of Miami

  
Natural Resource Year in Review—2001
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Published by
U.S. Department of the Interior
National Park Service
Natural Resource Program Center
Natural Resource Information Division
Lakewood, Colorado

Editor
Jeff Selleck

Associate Editors
Lisa Brochu
Lara Schmit

National Park Service
Director • Fran Mainella

Natural Resource Stewardship and Science
Associate Director • Michael A. Soukup
Deputy Associate Director • Abigail B. Miller
Visiting Chief Social Scientist • Gary Machlis
Natural Systems Management Office • Staff

Natural Resource Program Center
Chief, Air Resources Division • Christine Shaver
Chief, Biological Resource Management Division • Craig Axtell
Chief, Environmental Quality Division • Jacob Hoogland
Chief, Geologic Resources Division • David Shaver
Chief, Natural Resource Information Division • Rich Gregory
Chief, Water Resources Division • Dan Kimball

The Year in Review is published electronically on the World Wide Web (www.nature.nps.gov/YearInReview/yir/yir2001). For a printed copy contact the editor by e-mail or write:

    Jeff Selleck
    National Park Service
    WASO-NRID
    P.O. Box 25287
    Denver, Colorado 80225-0287

All epigraphs introducing chapters are from Rethinking the National Parks for the 21st Century, a report of the National Park System Advisory Board, published in conjunction with the National Geographic Society, 2001. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use by the National Park Service.

D-2255 / May 2002

This material is from Natural Resource Year in Review--2001, published by the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, in May 2001 (publication D-2255)
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Last Updated: 1/18/2008