4. Resource Inventory and Monitoring (“Rim”)

Resource Inventory and Monitoring Goals:

1. Complete inventories of the flora and fauna.
2. Monitor management, restoration, and preservation practices.
3. Document short- and long-term biotic and abiotic resource changes to SMF and the surrounding area.
   

“ . . . no country gentleman should be without ‘what amuses every step he takes into his fields,’ whether we consider its subjects as furnishing the principal subsistence of life to man and beast, delicious varieties for our table . . . the adornment of our flower borders . . . or medicaments for our bodies.” (Thomas Jefferson) “[I]t is not clear which species are now or might someday be useful...Each species gone is an option foreclosed, and it is impossible for us to tell which options the human race might someday want to take up.” (Santa Barbara General Plan, Conservation Element, 1979, p. 74) Action Opportunity: Inventory insect and avian pollinators to establish database useful for future ecological research. Action Opportunity: Monitor rates of erosion, sediment levels, and water quality.

Policy Rim-4.1: Maintain inventory efforts already initiated. Policy Rim-4.2: Initiate inventories on groups of organisms not yet studied. Policy Rim-4.3: Create program to examine resource monitoring options, prioritize monitoring objectives, and establish data-gathering and data storage protocols. Policy Rim-4.4: Establish and maintain a resource data base using GIS, ground and aerial photos, and field note archives.

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