Chapter 3 Development of Individual Core Monitoring Plans and Manamgement Strategy to Support Them

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• Title: Chapter 3 Development of Individual Core Monitoring Plans and Manamgement Strategy to Support Them
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Element
Activity
Tools
Finalize reports and fact sheets
Address peer review comments
Final editing
Disseminate deports and information
Web site
Stakeholder workshops
Annual Reporting meetings
Continual
Periodically review project
Peer review panels (PEPS)
improve
2 3.2.3 Incorporating Future Technical Innovations into Monitoring Programs
3 New and innovative approaches are constantly being found as development of individual monitoring
4 protocols proceeds. The GCMRC believes that long -term monitoring protocols should continue to
5 evaluate new and improved methods when available and as appropriate through time. Project budgets
6 should ideally be increased annually by a few percent to enable the projects to continue evaluating new
7 methods and monitoring instruments and to cover periodic independent reviews.
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9 A key failing of the historical monitoring program has been to make a variety of changes in trend
10 monitoring methods without continuing parallel sampling using old methods for a limited period of time;
11 the use of old and new methods in parallel allows scientists to cross calibrate trend indicators. Parallel
12 sampling efforts are especially important when evaluating new noninvasive sampling methods or changes
13 in sampling efforts.
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15 Besides requiring sufficient ongoing funds, any evaluation of new methods must be systematic such that
16 data collected remain fully comparable through time, including comparing newly proposed methods to
17 existing methods. Changes in data collection and sampling design that cause "disconnects" in long -term
18 data streams are to be avoided. New methods will be evaluated while previous data collection methods
19 are continued (parallel sampling) to ensure that cross - calibration of trend indicators is possible. This is
20 particularly important when new methods are proposed with the intention of reducing costs —an
21 inevitable concern with any long -term monitoring program.
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23 After a period of parallel data collection, full external peer review of the data comparisons, environmental
24 impacts, and costs will be conducted prior to making any changes in the monitoring approach that would
25 forego previously established monitoring methods or data. This is one example of the commitment to goal
26 12 for ensuring a quality adaptive management program for the GCDAMP.
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28 Evaluation of noninvasive sampling methods as a basic component of maintaining quality monitoring
29 programs may include the following activities:
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31 Remote sensing for riparian sediment, vegetation resources, and campsites
32 0 Remote sensing for evaluation of fine -scale and longitudinal thermal regimes
33 0 Use of automatic counting systems (for example, passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags in the
34 Little Colorado River)
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