Abstract |
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an ambitious, nationwide effort to monitor the status and changes in the condition of the nation's ecological resources to provide information for regulators, managers, and policy makers. To assist it in meeting this challenge, EPA requested that the National Research Council (NRC) provide an ongoing review of its developing program. In response to that request, the NRC constituted the Committee to Review EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program in 1991. This is the committee's second report to EPA, and it focuses mainly on a review of EMAP's forest health monitoring component and the estuaries component. (Copyright (c) 1994 by the National Academy of Sciences.) |