Reports & Publications

  • Profile of a gilled mushroom growing among fall forest leaf litter
    Quick Reads

    Short documents, including resource briefs, species checklists, and newsletter issues.

  • Purple coneflower with a yellow butterfly feeding from it's center
    Inventories & Assessments

    Reports describing the point-in-time surveys that have helped us learn about the resources in our parks.

  • Closeup of a cluster of purplish-blue Virginia bluebell flowers
    Monitoring Reports

    Reports on each monitoring vital sign that describe what we are learning in the field.

  • Vibrant red Turks cap lily flowers
    Monitoring Protocols

    These peer-reviewed documents describe how we monitor.

  • Fuzzy, small, reddish, unfurling leaves of a hickory tree in the spring.
    Additional Resources

    More natural resources documents, and planning materials that establish frameworks for how we work in general, and how we manage our data.

  • Two NPS field technicians collect forest monitoring data using a small laptop computer
    Data Products

    Data products are a permanent record of data collected during our inventory and monitoring activities

Last updated: March 20, 2025