As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data. A list of species known to occur in NPS units is considered a basic inventory need (see: http: //science.nature.nps.gov/im/inventory/index.cfm). The I&M Program's Heartland Network (HTLN) recently completed inventories of vertebrate species and vascular plants at Cuyahoga Valley National Park (CUVA). In doing so, all existing data were...
As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inv...