NPS Condition Assessments

Pinnacles

Todo List for completing draft report 7/29/10

Who	Section	Task	Due date	Status
Patrick	Chap 4--Climate	add one or two plant distribution predictions, David will respond to minor NPS comments and add bg on climate models	7/30/10
Patrick	Chap 4--Air	change scale of sulfur deposition bar graph	7/30/10	Done 7/27/10
Frank	Chap 4--Fire regime	add text speculating about prehistoric fire regime	7/30/10
Frank	Chap 4--Badger connectivity	consider redoing modeling with pig fence as barrier; David can respond to the other NPS comments	7/30/10
David	Chap 4--Climate change/wildfire	respond to minor NPS comments	7/30/10	Done 7/27/10
David	Chap 4--roads	revising model with new permeability factors	7/30/10	Done
David	Chap 4--human footprint	add details about top-down and bottom-up models	7/30/10	Done 7/27/10
David	Chap 4--invasive plants	incorporate text and add placeholder for invasive species data (exposure component)	7/30/10
David	Chap 4--dark night sky	respond to NPS comments	7/30/10	Done 7/27/10
David	Exec Summary	finish discussion summary	7/30/10
David	Chap 2--Setting	insert section on climate change models and scenarios	7/30/10
David	Chap 5--Discussion	finish discussion	7/30/10

Status 7/26/10

Stressor/Indicator	Who	Conceptual Model	Data Compiled	Analysis Done	Report Status	Feedback from NPS
STRESSORS
Housing density	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/10/10
Road effects and accessibility	David	NA	Done	Done	Draft in report 7/29/10	accessibility model reworked with new permeability factors
Pesticides	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/10/10
Rodenticides	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/25/10
Human footprint	David	Done	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/25/10
AIR AND CLIMATE
Air quality	Patrick	No	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/25/10
Climate (change)	Frank/Patrick	NA	Data acquired from A. Flint	Done	Draft in report 7/29/10
BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
Invasive plants	David	revised 4/29/10 as per Paul	Paul sent weed zone shapefile; is getting weed presence/absence data for them	In progress	In progress	Paul J. would like SAMO-type analysis except with their weed zones and numbers of priority invasives to replace Bren GP exposure ranking
Feral pigs	David	Done	Done	Done	2nd draft in report 02/08/10
Prairie falcons	Frank	Done	Done	Done	1st Draft in report 7/29/10	NPS have not seen yet
Cal red-legged frogs	Patrick	Done	No	No	No	comments on draft conceptual model--revisions made 12/16/09
LANDSCAPES
Fire regime	Frank	No	Done	Done	Draft in report 5/10/10, needs minor editing	PJ9--wants lit summary of evidence of historical fire back to ~1500
Climate change-wildfire interaction	David	NA	obtained from T. Westerling	Done	Draft in report 7/29/10
Habitat connectivity	David	Draft	Done-from CEHC	Done	Draft in report 5/25/10
Habitat connectivity-badgers	Frank	Draft	Done	Done-Circuitscape	1st draft sent 7/12/10	Frank will also do CircuitScape analysis for SJ coachwhip
Dark night sky	David	NA	Done	Done	2nd draft in report 02/08/10	comments from PJ/MK about prison lights, vineyard night harvesting, and NPS Night Skies program; possibly add 2000 results if Albers does the analysis or use Cinzano et al. atlas
Other endpoints?

Santa Monica Mtns

Status

Stressor/Indicator	Who	Conceptual Model	Data Compiled	Analysis Done	Report Status	Feedback from NPS
STRESSORS
Housing density	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	1st draft sent 5/19/10	awaiting response
Road effects and accessibility	David	No	No	No	No	added 6/2/10--see ROMO report on accessibility; NPScape has models for density, distance, and area without roads
Pesticides	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	1st draft sent 5/19/10	awaiting response
Rodenticides	Patrick	NA	Done	Done	1st draft sent 5/19/10	awaiting response
Human footprint	David	Done	Done	Done	1st draft sent 03/15/10	awaiting response
AIR AND CLIMATE
Air quality	Patrick	See Tejon GP	No	No	No	have not seen yet
Climate change	Patrick	NA	Data acquired from A. Flint	to be done	to be done
BIOLOGICAL INTEGRITY
Invasive plants	David	Done	Done	Done	1st draft sent 02/02/10	Comments from MK as of 02/03/10; DK liked conceptual model of vulnerability; waiting for comments from Christy
LANDSCAPES
Fire-plant community interactions	Frank	In progress	No	No	No	have not seen conceptual model yet
Climate change-wildfire interaction	David	NA	requested from T. Westerling	to be done	to be done
Habitat connectivity	David	Draft	Done-from CEHC	No	No	added 6/2/10--Frank will do some CircuitScape analysis for species to be identified by SAMO; Comments on conceptual model only from MK as of 12/22/09; adapt Cal Essential Habitat Connectivity (04/27/10)
Light pollution	David	NA	Done	Done	rough draft only 02/08/10	have not seen yet
Other endpoints?

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