A Review of the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program The Draft Detailed Program (1995) / Chapter Skim
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The remainder 7 The FWS trust resources include more than 91 million acres of lands managed by FWS (which are primarily national wildlife refuges) , as well as anadromous fish, migratory birds, some marine mammals, and federally listed endangered species.
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13 Biomon~,toring programs are scattered throughout the federal government (e.g., the Environmental Mon,,tonng and Assessment Program, EMAP, at the Environmental Protection Agency) ; however, the Biomonitonn,g of Environmental Status and Trends Program, would be the only monitoring program, that addresses contaminant unpacts on FWS trust resources.
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Review of Biomonitoring Program Biomonitoring of Environmental Status & Trends Program DATA COLLECTION ,!
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Indexes of community structure and function reflect changes in species composition and relative abundance. The program's data-collection approach has been designed around two major components: FWS trust lands and trust species (anadromous fish, migratory birds, some marine mammals, and federally listed endangered species)
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· The U.S. Geological Survey National Stream Quality Accounting Network and National Water Quality Assessment Program fin pilot phase at that time)
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There is increasing evidence that trace-element contamination associated with agncultural Rainwater In the western United States is affecting wildlife. Such elements are said to be responsible for the widely publicized wildlife deaths and deformities at Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge In California; these suggestions accentuate the need for FWS to have a mechanism to evaluate potential toxicsubstance threats to trust resources (Ohiendorf et al., 1989~.
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In a presentation before the Research Council committee on May 19, 1994, Pamela Matthes, acting assistant director for ecological services of FWS, reviewed toxic-substance problems on FWS trust resources. FWS trust responsibilities extend over the 91 million acres of National Wildlife Refuge System lands.
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Several general "hot spot" areas for specific compounds were identified, such as increased concentrations of DDT in the southwestern United States and of PCBs in the Great Lakes region. The concentrations of pesticides in the environment and frequencies of occurrence of these chemicals were established, and the information was used to develop environmental regulations for organochior~ne chemicals.
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The program has never been put to use by FWS; therefore, its practicality has never been tested. The program as conceived spans activities from local cause-effect studies to reporting on regional and national status and trends affecting national wildlife refuges and trust species on or off trust lands.
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PllRPOSE OF THIS NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STUI) Y On the basis of the 1986 FWS issue paper, an FWS steering committee wrote a conceptual than for the Biomon~torin~ of Environmental Status and Trends Pro gram In 1990.
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The recommendations of the Research Council NBS report, if followed, should, according to the committee, provide the United States with a framework for making decisions about the management, use, and protection of its biological resources. In response to the request to evaluate the Biomonitonng of Environmental Status and Trends Program, the committee excerpted five questions from its overall charge (see Appendix A)
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