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National Parks Service Programs
In 2001, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) began a partnership to monitor bird populations on USFS lands. The count-based survey protocol is designed to provide statistically rigorous long-term trend data for populations of most diurnal, regularly occurring breeding landbird species. In the short term, these programs provide information needed to effectively manage and conserve bird populations on National Forest Service lands, including bird species’ spatial distribution, abundance, and relationship to important habitat characteristics. In addition, these cooperative projects support individual management units’ efforts to comply with requirements set forth in the National Forest Management Act and other statutes and regulations.
National Grasslands provide valuable habitat for endemic grassland species within a deteriorating and fragmented landscape. Before the initiation of RMBO’s National Grassland monitoring programs, there were no long term bird-monitoring programs for National Grasslands. RMBO’s National Grassland programs aim to understand population trends of grassland birds and underlying factors contributing to such trends, which will help direct management actions for the preservation of bird populations and their grassland ecosystem.
 
Juniper Titmouse. Photo by Tony Randell
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