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Expand the Volunteer Program <br />Preferably at the heginning of any city wide or individual park restoration effort. Recruiting <br />volunteers nat 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 />project. <br />Encourage citizen monitoring of animals that use the site. These mijht include frogs/toads, <br />birds, bats, deer, and othezs. <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, isoIated areas of varying qua3ity. <br />Managetnent activitics can influence one or morc aspccts of the mana�ed community and have <br />lasting, long-term implications. To avert any possible damages and ta 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 />managemenE if not exercised judiciously. Deciding what to monitor and how intensively to <br />monitor is always difficult. Sorne aspects of management can be monitored throu�h visual <br />inspection with field notes recorded and shared between the park anc� the resource mana�er. <br />Other aspects may require that quantitative monitoring be undertaken, such as Ion� term <br />monitoring o� raze plants/animals, although rare species are not part of the equation with ti�is <br />restaration project. <br />As part of fhe process of visually inspecting areas and assessing mana�cment efficacy without <br />quantitative monitoring, it would be recomrnendablc to keep a field journal of management <br />activities. The person(s) responsible for natural resource rnanabement could use this. Recorded <br />obsez'vations tnay include species seen on a particular date, fire effects, unusual weather events, <br />huznan disturbance, activiiies 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 />Ciry of Roseville 24 <br />Parks Natru-al Resoierce Manager�rent <br />