To support coordinated cooperative research, technical assistance, education and training, and usable knowledge development to inform science-based management of the national park system

To facilitate multi-disciplinary science and integrated information products related to the resources of the national park system. To maintain a comprehensive network cooperative study units as will provide full geographic and topical coverage for research, technical assistance, and educational activities related to the resources contained in units of the national park system and their larger regions. The goal of this research project is for personnel from the university of new mexico, museum of southwestern biology, division of arthropods (UNM) to inventory and to monitor pollinating insects of the valles caldera national monument, new mexico, as the preliminary step to the establishment of a long-term monitoring program for pollinators on the preserve. The monitoring program may also be expanded to include areas of bandelier national monument. The objectives of the study will 1) document which species of insect pollinators occur on the preserve and potentially bandelier national monument, along with documenting insect pollinator-flowering plant species relationships across different study site environments, and 2) develop a long-term monitoring project of the pollinator insects across those same study sites in relation to changing climate and vegetation. Monitoring protocols will be initiated and tested for accuracy and efficiency during the first 2 years, and one primary protocol will then be continued by preserve staff and or collaborating entomologists for multiple years into the future.beneficiaries include state and local governments, federally recognized indian tribal governments, public private nonprofit organizations, nonprofit institutions of higher education, and individuals (including members of the general public).for more information and guidance, refer to NPS financial assistance policy guidance document on usaspending.GOV award descriptions (project abstracts), or contact the NPS financial assistance policy office at financial assitance policy NPS.GOV.