This Natural Resource Condition Assessment (NRCA) report and accompanying geodatabase is designed to give HAFO resource managers a better understanding of current natural resource conditions within and adjacent to the Monument. Assessments were accomplished through literature review, evaluating existing data, and collection of new data for areas where sufficient, reliable data was not available. Information gained from this assessment will help form the basis for development of actions to mitigate degradation of HAFO's natural resources and assist in the development of desired future conditions through Park management processes. Additionally, an overall description of HAFO natural resources and their history, condition, threats, and stressors are presented throughout this document followed by a summary and management recommendations. All management practices structured toward attaining Proper Functioning Conditions within natural ecosystems will aid NPS resource managers in accomplishing their goals of conservation for future generations.

This report and set of geographic information system (GIS) maps with associated data layers serve to: (1) describe CRMO resources in a regional context (setting, significance, issues), (2) provide an interdisciplinary (holistic) snapshot of current resource conditions by management area, (3) document high-priority data gaps and resource condition threats and stressors and (4) identify and describe "high value" and "high vulnerability" (at risk) CRMO resources and management areas.

To better understand the native, non-native and restored plant community dynamics at WHMI the NPS Vegetation Inventory Program (NVIP) funded a vegetation inventory and mapping project in 2006 as part of the larger Upper Columbia Basin Inventory and Monitoring Network (UCBN) network-wide inventory program. The authors' detail the findings of the Vegetation Inventory Project at Whitman Mission National Historic Site

An overall description of CIRO natural resources, historic overview, condition, threats, and stressors are presented throughout this document followed by a site summary and management recommendations.