Cover Image: Montane wet habitat of Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park is forecast to become warm and dry by the end of the 21st century. Over time most of the species pictured here are projected to occur outside of current intensely managed Special Ecological Areas, focal sites for managing rare and endangered plants. Credit: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park/Mark Wasser
This issue published
Online: 5 April 2018; In print: 30 March 2018
Departments
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Introduction to this issue of Park Science
- Locations: Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, Indiana Dunes National Park, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
The EPA updated its criteria for assessing water and sediment quality. This enabled a more nuanced analysis of water quality conditions in the Great Lakes. Our analysis suggests that parks would benefit from additional work on water clarity.
Information about the management and production of this issue of Park Science.
An updated version of the herbarium label template is now available in the Interior Collections Management System (ICMS). The ICMS is the software used to catalog NPS museum collections. All the pertinent botanical and curatorial data are now on the new label.
A memorial tribute to Donald R. Field. He was Chief Scientist in the Pacific West Region where he co-founded Park Science. He was editor of the journal Leisure Sciences and was founding editor for Society and Natural Resources. He was the first Senior Scientist for Sociology in the National Park Service.
- Locations: Crater Lake National Park, Grand Teton National Park, Olympic National Park
A remembrance of limnologist Gary L. Larson
- Grand Teton National Park
Tribute: Legacy of NPS historian Richard Sellars lives on in science-based park management programs
- Locations: Grand Teton National Park
A tribute to retired NPS historian Richard West Sellars
Research Reports
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- Locations: Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Natural resource managers at Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park want to know how climate change, and increased temperatures and variable rainfall will alter plant distributions, especially in the Special Ecological Areas (SEAs), which are focal sites for managing rare and endangered plants.
Case Studies
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- Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
Assessing the relative vulnerability of sensitive karst habitats containing rare, threatened, and endangered species in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park
- Locations: Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park
The authors highlight the development of a vulnerability risk-impact matrix, a decision-support tool intended to help prioritize management needs related to karst features and associated at-risk species.
- Golden Gate National Recreation Area
The ascent to peak health: Measuring the state of a mountain’s natural resources
- Locations: Golden Gate National Recreation Area
How do you define and measure the ecological health of one of the San Francisco Bay Area’s greatest natural treasures? Members of the Tamalpais Lands Collaborative, including the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, recently came together to answer this question.
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