Natural Resource Publications Management (NRPM)

Natural Resource Publications consist of five series: Natural Resource Technical Report (NRTR), Natural Resource Report (NRR), Natural Resource Data Series (NRDS), Scientific Monograph, and Park Science.

This site provides information for preparing, submitting, and managing Natural Resource Technical Reports (NRTR), Natural Resource Reports (NRR), and the Natural Resource Data Series (NRDS) reports. Manuscripts must adhere to a set of minimum standards and are peer-reviewed to ensure that information is scientifically credible, technically accurate, appropriately written for the intended audience, and designed and published in a professional manner.

Click here to see the basic procedures for submitting new reports. More detailed information on preparing, submitting and managing NRTR, NRR and NRDS reports by following the links located in the left-hand column of this website.

Descriptions of the Report Series Managed Here

The Natural Resource Technical Reports (NRTR): used to disseminate results of scientific studies in the physical, biological, and social sciences for both the advancement of science and the achievement of the National Park Service mission. The series provides contributors with a forum for displaying comprehensive data that are often deleted from journals because of page limitations. The NRTR typically follows the "Introduction - Methods - Results - Discussion" type organization that is standard for many scientific journal publications and technical reports. Examples of NRTR reports include:

• periodic data summaries with analysis and interpretation
• inventory reports
• monitoring reports
• species status reports

• Select a link below to:
  • See the list of published NRTR reports to date.
  • View the report submission procedures for NRTR reports.
  • Download MS Word or Adobe InDesign document templates designed specifically for NRTR reports.

Natural Resource Reports (NRR): used to disseminate high-priority, current natural resource management information with managerial application. The series targets a general, diverse audience, and may contain NPS policy considerations or address sensitive issues of management applicability. Reports organized into Chapters, such as monitoring plans and protocols, are best suited for the NRR, which has a more flexible "open format" layout. Examples of the diverse array of reports published in this series include:

• vital signs monitoring plans
• data management plans
• monitoring protocols
• natural resource condition assessments
• "how to" resource management papers
• annual reports of resource programs or divisions of the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science offices
• resource action plans

• Select a link below to:
  • See the list of published NRR reports to date.
  • View the report submission procedures for NRR reports.
  • Download MS Word or Adobe InDesign document templates designed specifically for NRR reports.

Natural Resource Data Series (NRDS): intended for timely release of basic data sets and data summaries. Care has been taken to assure accuracy of raw data values, but a thorough analysis and interpretation of the data has not been completed. Consequently, the initial analyses of data in these reports are provisional and subject to change. This series is intended to provide data sets or data summaries that will be compiled, analyzed, and interpreted once enough data has been collected to do so adequately.

• periodic data summaries with little or no analysis and interpretation
• annual visitor statistics summaries
• periodic data compilations from automated weather stations

• Select a link below to:
  • See the list of published NRDS reports to date.
  • View the report submission procedures for NRDS reports.
  • Download MS Word or Adobe InDesign document templates designed specifically for NRDS reports.