Natural Resource Year in Review, 1997: A Report of the National Park ServiceSummarizing and Analyzing the Year in Natural Resource Stewardship in the National Park System

摘要

This report both celebrates the natural diversity found in the parks anddescribes the complex job of caring for that diversity in modern landscapes. It summarizes the major issues we faced and the trends that developed during the calender year, and in do so, preserves a record of our natural resource management activities. It also provides an analysis of why our activities were important and where we need to go from here.