National Park Service Natural Resource Fact Sheet

National Park Service

The fact sheets provide information about various activities and programs of the National Park Service. They are contributed by National Park Service staff and associates and prepared by the Natural Resource Information Division. The division chief, Dr. Richard W. Gregory welcomes comments about fact sheets.

Staff who wish to contribute a fact sheet to the series should read Instructions for Contributors.

Dated fact sheets are in the Archive.

Last update 5 Mar 2001
http://www1.nature.nps.gov/facts/findex.htm

Natural Resource Fact Sheets
date denotes last revision

Air Resources
Measuring Ultraviolet Radiation in NPS Units (Jan 2001)
The Nat'l Atmospheric Deposition Program and NPS (Jan 2001)

Fishes and Wildlife

Fisheries Management Program (Sep 2001)

White-tailed Deer in National Parks (Nov 1999)

Pest Management in the National Park Service (Sep 2000)

Restoration of the Black-footed Ferret in NPS (Nov 2000)

Geological Resources

Paleontological Resources in National Park System Units (Dec 2000)

GIS

GIS in the National Park Service (Sep 2000)

Inventory and Monitoring

Inventory and Monitoring Base Program (Mar 2001)

Baseline Water Quality Status and Trends (Dec 2000)

Base Cartographic Data (Jan 2001)

Bibliographic Database (Oct 2000)

Soil Inventory and Mapping (Jan 2001)

Vegetation Mapping (Feb 2001)

Plants

Pest Management in the National Park Service (Sep 2000)

Herbicides, Exotic Weeds, and Risk Management in the National Park Service (Aug 2000)

Publications

Instructions for Contributors of Fact Sheets (Jan 2001)

Natural Resource Publication Program (Jan 2001)

Water Resources

Nat'l Water Quality Assessment Program in Nat'l Parks (Dec 2000))