Small mammal populations have been monitored as part of the Denali LTEM program from its beginning in 1992. One aspect of this agreement is to maintain the small mammal monitoring effort in Rock Creek and other drainages near park headquarters (this...Research Agreement • May 5th, 2020
Contract Type FiledMay 5th, 2020The Denali LTEM program has always billed itself as an "integrated" watershed approach. The intent to "integrate" was implied by the arrangement of study effort in the Rock Creek watershed (i.e, the collocation of data collection efforts). However, mechanisms to promote integration of results have not yet been developed, and all reporting thus far has focused on individual study efforts. By 1997, it was clear that integration was not going to occur unless some specific effort was put into it. Thus, one purpose of this agreement is to throw some resources at the "integration" question.