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History of the Biennial Conference
The Biennial Conference of Research on the Colorado Plateau began in 1991 as a means of sharing information among National Park researchers and land managers. Organized and hosted by the Colorado Plateau Research Station, then a National Park Service Cooperative Research Studies Unit at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, the conference seeks to highlight research and resource management efforts related to physical, cultural and biological resources within the biogeographic province of the Colorado Plateau.
Over the course of the decade the Colorado Plateau Research Station (CPRS), broadened its client base by first becoming a unit of the National Biological Survey, and then of the Biological Resources Division of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). CPRS is now a part of the USGS Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC), also in Flagstaff.
With the conference no longer limited to National Park Service concerns, other Colorado Plateau land management agencies including the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Reclamation, and the Forest Service began to participate, allowing the conference to grow in size and scope. NAU and several of its departments also increased their participation; conference sponsors now include the Center for Sustainable Environments (CSE), the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Study Unit (CP-CESU) and the Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research (MPCER).
A record of the proceedings is published every two years and made available at the following Biennial Conference. The Colorado Plateau Proceedings Series contributes to our increasing pool of fresh data, providing baseline scientific information pertinent to the Plateau’s physical, cultural and biological resources. Many of the protocols and management techniques presently being used in land management units over the Colorado Plateau are a result of scientific work published in the Proceedings.
Fifth Biennial Conference Proceedings
