Riparian aquatic information data summary

By United States. Bureau of Land Management

Subjects: Electronic data processing, Handbooks, manuals, Ecology, United States, Computer programs, Data processing, United States. Bureau of Land Management, Information storage and retrieval systems, Aquatic resources, Riparian ecology

Description: "The Riparian/Aquatic portion of BLM's Wildlife Information System is designed to be used as a summary analysis of site specific data to provide information to the public land manager. The data input form (Form 6602-9) provides for the recording of the biologist's analysis of data which may be either limited or extended over a period of time...Once the data has been summarized and entered into the computer data base, it can be easily retrieved and used for preparing of Land Use Plans, RMPs, EISs [and] EAs...the information in the data base allows for analyzing and arraying alternatives and summarizing them in a concise manner"--Page 4.