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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from LYRASIS IVIembers and Sloan Foundation http://archive.org/details/highlightsofnatu001990 Highlights of Natural Resources Management 1990 UNIVERS... LF GEORGIA OCT 3 1991 LIBRARIES Natural Resources Programs Natural Resources Report NPS/NRPO/NRR-91/03 National Park Service Highlights of Natural Resources Management A ReportonNationalParkServiceNatural ResourcesManagement Activities in 1990 Foradditionalcopies: PublicationsCoordinator NationalParkService NaturalResourcesPublication Office P.O. Box 25287 CO Denver, 80225-0287 (FTS) 327-2156 (303)969-2156 1990 Highlights of Natural / Management Resources NaturalResourcesReportNPS/NRPO/NRR-91-03 EditedbyLissaFox United StatesDepartmentofthe Interior National ParkService NaturalResource Publications Office -4 S6043 i'J 1 Table of Contents Introduction / Protecting and Restoring Our Resources: Front Page Stories Survival ofthe Spotted Owl Sparks Controversy /4 ProposedAction Will Improve Visibilityat theGrand Canyon/5 Bisonand Brucellosis In Yellowstone/6 DOI Objects to Proposed Power Plants /7 Dam Affects Downstream Resources / 8 Everglades Fights for Its Life /9 Protecting and Restoring Our Resources: Unsung Stories Achievement Awards Recognize Excellence / 12 Director's Award for Natural Resources Management: David Haskell / 12 Director's Award for Science: Francis J. Singer / 13 TheReturnoftheNative: Revegetation in theRockyMountainRegion/14 Native PlantsTakeRootintheRockyMountain Region/14 Joshua Tree National Monument Nurtures Desert Natives / 15 Insular Populations Create Management Challenges / 16 Cooperating to Create a Compromise/ 17 Everyone's at Home on Great Basin's Range / 17 Wildlife Mitigation Serves as Resource Management Tool / 18 Tracking our Natural Resources Inventoryand MonitoringProgress at Glacier National Park/20 Artie Char Go Up Against Industry in Northwest Alaska /21 WhereHaveAll the Abalone Gone?/22 SoilCrustsSoundPollutionAlarm/24 Searching for Treasures at John Day Fossil Beds / 25 International Park Resource Management Issues How Has the National Park Service Gained from Acid Rain Research? /28 National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program Summary /29 Global Change Research in the National Parks /30 TheOzarkHighlands 30 / Glacier National Park/31 Information Management Meets Resource Management GIS Finds a Place in theParks/34 GIS HighlightsatYosemite National Park/34 Voyageurs Predicts Impacts to Mammals / 35 Shenandoah Changes Its Point ofView/36 GIS Is Everywhere in the Everglades / 37 Special Habitat for Special Species RarestU.S. WolvesReturn to Great SmokyMountains NationalPark/40 Butterflies Find Refuge At Biscayne National Park /41 The Last Stand ofthe Shenandoah Salamander /42 Peregrines Come Back to the Rockies /43 Wolves Need Room to Roam/44 IsleRoyalePopulationStillDown/44 The Winged MapleleafMussel Hangs on at St. Croix Riverway/45