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A Review of the Biomonitoring of Environmental Status and Trends Program The Draft Detailed Program (1995) / Chapter Skim
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5 CONCLUSIONS
Pages 65-67

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... Biomonitonng of Environmental Status and Trends Program has involved scientific review and analysis in its program plar~ng and constitutes an advance in program development. There is a need for this kind of program to evaluate the presence and impact of contaminants that potentially affect the nation's trust lands and species.
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... Additional key themes in the report include the need for · A phased approach to implementation with initial emphasis on problem identification on FWS trust lands. Pilot studies and methods-testing, especially in defining ecological action levels.
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From page 67...
... Such an activity has no chance of succeeding without a data-management plan that is as fully developed as the datagathenng plan itself. In conclusion, the committee believes that because the detailed plan of the program does not sufficiently address the issues of problem identification, causality, and management and the linkages among these three elements, the Biomon~tonug of Environmental Status arid Trends Program will be unable to satisfy the three goals that it indicates that it wants to achieve: Goal 1: Determine the status and trends of environmental contaminants and their effects on trust resources.
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  • environmental status
  • toxic substances
  • ecological risk
  • trends program
  • wildlife service

  • allow fws
  • fws trust
  • especially partnerships
  • fundamental step
  • stated questions

  • set program
  • monitoring programs
  • regarding program
  • risk characterization
  • defensible program

  • program priorities
  • usable information
  • defines data
  • action levels
  • relevant ecological

  • provide current
  • ecological action
  • observed effect
  • program designers
  • data paths

  • plan keeping
  • trust resources
  • scientific review
  • uncertainty assessment
  • defining ecological


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