The NPS Science & Nature website strives to improve park management through the greater reliance on scientific knowledge about natural resource topics. Site topics are outlined below.

Inventory & Monitoring Program (NPS-wide)

As part of the National Park Service's efforts to improve park management through the greater reliance on scientific knowledge, the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program collects, organizes, analyzes, and synthesizes natural resource data and information, and provides the results in a variety of useful formats.
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NPS Climate Change Response Resources

The NPS Climate Change Response Program works to foster communication, provide guidance, scientific information, and recommendations that support stewardship actions to preserve our natural and cultural heritage from the detrimental impacts of global climate change.

This page provides lists of scientific research publications that were produced by the NPS Climate Change Response Program.

Individual Park Focus Pages (Publications, Maps, etc.)

Park focus pages provide tools for searching and displaying information related to specific parks. Most of the data accessible through these pages is dynamically retrieved from multiple NPS sources such as the IRMA Data Store, NPSpecies, NPMap, and others