Excerpt from Funding the Natural Resource Challenge: A Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 2002 Service's third annual report document ing the expenditures and related accomplish ments of the Natural Resource Challenge. The Challenge, a multi-year action plan, provides the framework national parks are now using to successfully preserve the natural resources pro tected by the National Park Service, while at the same time improving access to the public. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Funding the Natural Resource Challenge: A Report to Congress, Fiscal Year 2007 Discovery is the process of finding something new: new information, new species, new patterns. It can come from basic research, baseline inventories, or even observation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

When the Challenge was first funded in FY 2000, Congress requested that the National Park Service report on Challenge-related expenditures and accomplishments. This report responds to that request and offers a summary of the state of natural resources across the National Park System in FY 2010 by providing financial details and accomplishments for Servicewide natural resource stewardship programs funded by the Challenge as well as other sources.