The National Park Service (NPS) created the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program following the National Park Omnibus Management Act of 1998 to acquire data needed to support effective management and protection of native habitats located on park lands. The role of the I&M Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data and contribute to the National Park Service's institutional knowledge by facilitating the transformation of data into information through analysis, synthesis and modeling. In concordance with the stated role of the I&M Program, the objectives of this...
The National Park Service (NPS) created the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program following the National Park Omnibus Management Act of 1998 to acqui...