An Evaluation of the Level I Natural Resources Inventory Process on Corps Operational Projects

Résumé du livre

Engineer Regulation (ER) 1130-2-540 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) 2005) mandates that natural resource inventories be conducted on all Corps of Engineers (CE) operational projects. The basic inventory to be conducted at Corps projects was identified by the CE Stewardship Advisory Team (SAT) as the Natural Resources Level I Inventory, described in Krause et al. (2004). In 2005, a study was undertaken as part of the Ecosystem Management and Restoration Research Program (EMRRP) to (1) provide a basic protocol for conducting Level I inventories for Special Status Species, (2) evaluate broad-based inventory methods available for selected taxa, (3) field test and verify components of the Level I Inventory protocol, and (4) develop a methodology for assessing the condition of vegetation types on Corps lands. A protocol for conducting Level I Inventories was completed in 2005 and described in Martin et al. (2006). This technical note provides the results of a preliminary evaluation of the Level I protocol for selected Corps projects.