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Expand the Volunteer Program <br />Preferably at the beginning of any city wide or individual park restoration effort. Recruiting <br />volunteers not only provides labor that can make a project possible, it also provides a core of <br />informed and enthusiastic stewards who will spread the work and take proprietary interest in the <br />proj ect. <br />Encourage citizen monitoring of animals that use the site. These might include frogs /toads, <br />birds, bats, deer, and others. <br />MONITORING MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES <br />Ecological Restoration is a process that involves active management by natural resource <br />professionals. This management often takes place on small, isolated areas of varying quality. <br />Management activities can influence one or more aspects of the managed community and have <br />lasting, long -term implications. To avert any possible damages and to make sure that the best <br />possible practices are used for restoring natural communities, it is important to monitor chosen <br />aspects of those communities on a regular basis. <br />Monitoring has the potential to be an expensive, and labor- intensive process. As well, it has the <br />potential to take valuable monetary and human resources away from the process of active <br />management if not exercised judiciously. Deciding what to monitor and how intensively to <br />monitor is always difficult. Some aspects of management can be monitored through visual <br />inspection with field notes recorded and shared between the park and the resource manager. <br />Other aspects may require that quantitative monitoring be undertaken, such as long -term <br />monitoring of rare plants /animals, although rare species are not part of the equation with this <br />restoration project. <br />As part of the process of visually inspecting areas and assessing management efficacy without <br />quantitative monitoring, it would be recommendable to keep a field journal of management <br />activities. The person(s) responsible for natural resource management could use this. Recorded <br />observations may include species seen on a particular date, fire effects, unusual weather events, <br />human disturbance, activities of work crews, and the quality of their work performed, as well as <br />many others. Although this type of information may not be quantitative, it can help with <br />City of Roseville 26 <br />Parks Natural Resource Management <br />