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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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APPENDIX A: STATEMENT OF TASK
Pages 71-71

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... the program's design permit FWS to identifier the causes of any observed changes in the status of resources? In other words, will the program improve FWS's ability to identify potential, existing, and emerging problems on FWS lands and to FWS trust resources and to determine whether any problems are related to contaminants, to other human causes, or whether they represent natural fluctuations?
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Key Terms

  • trust resources
  • program flexible
  • contaminant sources
  • human causes
  • fws trust

  • program improve
  • fws lands
  • national wildlife
  • affecting national
  • local scale

  • represent natural
  • study design
  • prevent contaminant
  • natural fluctuations
  • identify potential

  • support activities
  • wildlife refuges
  • probable contaminant
  • identify emerging
  • program study

  • maintaining sufficient
  • contaminant impacts
  • design adequate
  • program provide
  • simultaneously maintaining

  • develop information
  • prioritize issues
  • sufficient consistency
  • determine regions
  • program managers


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