Platte River Habitat Conservation Program

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I The Program Director and Staff will have operational responsibility for implementing and completing research activities as directed by the Conservation Committee. Research Conservation Committee and Program participants at regularly scheduled intervals. 2.3.2 Monitoring Monitoring is an ongoing activity designed to determine the habitats, which is the goal of the Platte River Habitat Conservation Program. Monitoring will be operated as a distinct Program activity, but may include (but not be duplicative o fl some types of data collection performed for research purposes. Monitoring activities will focus on specific river reaches, habitat types, habitat management strategies and practices, and other habitat recovery activities. Monitoring methodologies and techniques will be standardized to isolate spatial and temporal effects from effects attributable habitat management activities. Operational management of monitoring activities will be the responsibility of the Program Director and Staff, monitoring results will be available to the Conservation Committee and Program participanis similarly to research results. - 2.3.3 Data Management The goal of the data management activity of the Program will be to organize and operate a comprehensive, centralized data management system which supports and expedites decisionmak- ing and decision implementation within the Program. This data management goal will be accomplished through 2 principal objectives: 1) acquisition, organization, and utilization of existing data from State, Federal, and private sources on components of Platte River habitats and factors affecting those habitat components and 2) ensure coordinated and effective data management, analysis, and dissemination in the future. Such a data management system is indispensable to cost effective research and monitoring activities of the Program and to informed implementation of the Program. Therefore, 16