As part of the Upper Columbia Basin Network's effort to conduct
vital signs monitoring, we completed monitoring of camas (Camassia
quamash) in Big Hole National Battlefield (BIHO) and Nez Perce
National Historical Park (NEPE). Camas is a unique resource for
these parks because it is both culturally and ecologically
significant. Camas was and remains one of the most widely utilized
indigenous foods in the Pacific Northwest and it is strongly
associated with the wet prairie ecosystems of the region that have
been degraded or lost due to historic land use practices. A
long-term citizen science-based monitoring program for detecting
status and trends in camas populations at BIHO and Weippe Prairie,
a unit of NEPE, serves as a central information source for park
adaptive management decision making and will provide essential
feedback on any eventual restoration efforts of park wet prairie
habitats. The involvement of student citizen scientists in this
particular program has been effective both in terms of leveraging
resources as well as in engaging communities in park stewardship
and science education. This annual report details the status and
trend estimates obtained from the first six years of monitoring,
2005-2010, at Weippe Prairie and BIHO.
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