Comprehensive Assessment of Deposition Monitoring for Class I Areas 英文资料.pdfVIP

Deposition monitoring in Class I Wilderness Comprehensive Assessment of Deposition Monitoring for Class I Areas Pamela E. Padgett, PhD Pacific Southwest Research, Riverside CA Objectives and background In many ways NADP was the creation of Forest Service employees when acid rain was first recognized as a threat to forest health. The establishment of NADP monitoring within the Forest Service began with the very first acid rain monitoring initiatives in an effort to understand the geographic and temporal trends in acidified precipitation. All eight of the original monitoring sites established in 1978 by the Forest Service are still running, providing over 30 years of continuous wet deposition data. What began as an acid rain monitoring network in the late 1970s has grown into a more general nutrient deposition network. While acidification effects continue to be of concern, deposition of nitrogen, sulfur, and other ions are often the focus of managers’ and researchers’ application of NADP data. As the value of the network data in answering nitrogen deposition questions, in particular, increased, several new sites were installed specifically to monitor changes in nitrogen deposition from increased pressure from urbanization. The need for monitoring continues to evolve for all land managers, but especially as the Forest Service works to improve and restore resiliency in watersheds that are being affected by many stressors, including air pollution and changing climate. There were two separate questions driving this project: 1.) How well does the NADP data represent deposition in Class I wilderness areas managed by the Forest Service? The Clean Air Act gives Federal Land managers purview over air quality on lands set aside for unique ecosystem characteristics, designated as Class I Areas. A significa