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AND CLIMATE CHANGE Developing Partnerships and Tools to Promote Climate Change Adaptation Intermountain Region National Park Service Resource Management U.S. Department of the Interior Crossroads in Science Where the Intermountain Region’s Resource Stewardship and Science Programs and Centers Meet Fall 2013 In This Issue... Who We Are & What We Do – Inside Front Cover Message from ARD Whittington – 1 Overview of the Directorate – 3 This Issue’s Feature Park – 7 Projects of Interest –14 Feature Program: Environmental Quality Division – 53 People Notes – 55 Who We Are and What We Do he Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate provides technical expertise and T administrative assistance to 91 parks and about 6,000 employees in the National Park Service’s eight-state Intermountain Region (IMR). The region covers Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. It is the park service’s largest region, and its parks encompass more than 11.1 million acres. The directorate is one of five directorates in the IMR’s headquarters in Lakewood, Colorado. The office provides specialized help in policy, budget, program development, National Park Service workforce development Intermountain Region U.S. Department of the Interior and communications Legend Kalispell (! City so that its parks can *# Regional Office isso M uri Rive ^_ State Capital best serve visitors. r Helena River Riv e r Lake A brief description Butte Ye llowsto ne Bozeman National Park Unit Billings of the Resource National Heritage Area National Historic Trails Stewardship and Science Sheridan California El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro Directorate’s programs El Camino Real de los Tejas Mormon Pioneer begin on page 3 of this Casper Platte R er North i v Old Spanish issue. Oregon Ogden Pony Express Laramie Salt Lake Cheyenne Santa Fe City r Trail of Tears ive R n ver e Ri e r o G d NP National Park Color a Denver Grand NPRES National Preserve Junction NM National Monument Moab NHS National Historic Site Colorado Springs NHP National Historical Park Ark an Editorial Director: sa NHA National Heritage Area s R iver NRA National Recreation Area Nida Shaheen N MEM National Memorial NS National Seashore [email protected] WSR Wild & Scenic River Editor: Tulsa adian River Flagstaff Santa Fe Can Pat O’Driscoll Oklahoma City Albuquerque Oklahoma City R N MEM (Affiliated) patrick_o’[email protected] ed R Phoenix iver Rive ila r Visual Layout: G Lori Kinser Tucson Fort Dallas [email protected] Worth El Paso B r a z R o io s Pec G os R r i Front Cover: a v n e R r d iv e e r R i Feature Park — Montezuma v e r Castle National Monument Austin Houston San See the Submerged Resources Antonio article on diving in Montezuma Well on page 7. Photo Credit: Brett Seymour Corpus Christi 0 50 100 200 ± Miles Produced by Intermountain Region Geographic Resources Division Denver, Colorado February 2013 Contents Introduction from Associate Regional Director Whittington ............................................ 1 The IMR Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate at a Glance ............................... 3 NPS SUBMERGED RESOURCES Feature Park — Montezuma Well: Exploring Inner Space in the Intermountain Region ...................................................................................................... 7 C ULTURAL RESOURCES When a SKILSAW® Just Can’t Cut It: Preserving Heavy-Timber Structures in the Parks .....................................................................................................14 G EOGRAPHIC RESOURCES Using Web-Based Interactive Maps to Support Planning .................................................21 L ANDSCAPE CONSERVATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE Developing Partnerships and Tools to Promote Climate Change Adaptation .........................................................................................................25 N ATURAL RESOURCES Armchair Visits to Geological Underworlds: Virtual Cave Tours of El Malpais National Monument .......................................................................................33 Revealing New Triassic Microvertebrate Faunas in the Upper Chinle Formation, Petrifi ed Forest National Park, Arizona ...........................................................................40 Feature Program — Environmental Quality .....................................................................53 People Notes ....................................................................................................................55 Looking West, Montezuma Castle National Monument IMR Crossroads – Resource Stewardship & Science Introduction from Associate Regional Director Whittington elcome to Crossroads What has not changed, Win Science, a new however, is the core Crossroads publication of the Resource mission and aim: to present, Stewardship and Science explain and share the work, Directorate of the National the technical expertise and Park Service’s Intermountain the wide-ranging reach of this Region (IMR). most diverse of Intermountain Welcome again, actually. Region directorates. The The Crossroads directorate supports name has graced sound resource IMR resource management publications decisions for before. It was 91 IMR parks “born” in 2005 in eight states, as Cultural with more than Crossroads, a 6,000 full-time newsletter for and seasonal what was then employees Cultural Resource and a combined Management, CRM for area of more than short. As the Intermountain 11.1 million acres. Region’s resources programs Working together under this broadened and combined, the directorate is a remarkable newsletter evolved in 2009 array of disciplines and into Crossroads, to serve the programs: Natural Resources, IMR natural and cultural Cultural Resources (including resource divisions in the the Western Archeological and Resource Stewardship and Conservation Center in Tucson Research Directorate. With our and NPS Vanishing Treasures continued growth and most program), Environmental recent reconfi guration into the Quality, Landscape Resources Stewardship and Conservation and Climate Science Directorate, one more Change, Colorado River revision of the name is only Management, Planning and fi tting: Crossroads in Science, Special Projects, Geographic where the Intermountain Resources (GIS), and the Region’s resource stewardship service-wide NPS Submerged and science programs Resources Center, which calls and centers meet. the IMR home. Also working Zion National Park 1 Fall 2013 with us: the Great Northern Region programs, parks the depth and breadth of our Landscape Conservation and people do every day in commitment to and care for Cooperative (Bozeman), resource stewardship and the richly diverse natural and three Cooperative science. It will display IMR’s and cultural resources of Ecosystem Studies Units: commitment to excellence in the Intermountain Region Rocky Mountains CESU science, research, and sound and its parks. We hope it (Missoula), Colorado Plateau resources management for also will become a bridge CESU (Flagstaff ) and Desert Southwest CESU (Tucson). The interests and subject matter of Crossroads in Science articles this year and in the years to come will range across all these fi elds and programs, with an emphasis on their application among the parks of the Intermountain Region. This issue, for instance, includes articles on a Submerged Resources project at Montezuma Well in Arizona’s Montezuma Castle National Monument, Vanishing Treasures work at Utah’s Zion National Park and SRC Deputy Chief Brett Seymour talks to the Mt Carbon Elementary School second Golden Spike National Historic grade in Littleton, Colorado about SCUBA diving and underwater cameras. Site, and a cave mapping project at New Mexico’s El Malpais National Monument. the directorate’s “customers” to collaboration with other There also are articles on topics – IMR parks and park regions of the Park Service. that range across parks and collaborators; cooperating To our colleagues in disciplines, connecting parks institutions and organizations; resource stewardship and to larger landscapes around resource teams in other NPS science, we invite your them and promoting resilience regions; federal, state and submissions for future issues. of park resources against forces local government partners; And to all, we invite your such as climate change. One and the broader audience of feedback. Join us here at the such article, for instance, deals park visitors and the American Crossroads in Science. with developing partnerships public. Thus, it aims to appeal and strategies to promote to both scholarly science and Tammy Whittington Associate Regional Director, climate change adaptation. accessible public interests in its articles and other content. Resource Stewardship Crossroads in Science and Science Advisor seeks to demonstrate the In the coming years, we expect work that Intermountain Crossroads in Science to show 2 IMR Crossroads – Resource Stewardship & Science The IMR Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate at a Glance Planning /"5*0/"-1"3,4&37*$&t64%&1"35.&/50'5)&*/5&3*03 Foundation Document Overview The IMR Planning Division’s main purpose is to help parks make Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Park informed decisions about complex long-term management issues Texas aff ecting park operations. It works with other NPS divisions to fi nd /"5*0/"-1"3,4&37*$&t64%&1"35.&/50'5)&*/5&3*03 the necessary staff , money and expertise to ensure that parks are Foundation Document Brochure ready to undertake construction or change their operations in ways Bryce Canyon National Park Utah DRAFTDRA signifi cantly aff ecting visitor use.
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