Download or read book Protocol for Monitoring Coastal Salt Marshes in the Southwest Alaska Network written by National Park Service and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-08-28 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) serves as a regional organization of the National Park Service for inventorying and monitoring Alaska's parks in the maritime ecoregion of southwestern Alaska. ABR, Inc. is assisting the National Park Service in the design and testing of monitoring protocols for implementation in SWAN. This effort has benefited from other efforts to develop regional monitoring protocols and it is expected that many of the protocols will be applicable to other parks with coastal ecosystems, as well as to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service coastal refuges.