Created in 1999, Resource Stewardship's program goals have been
to provide direction for the protection of the natural resources in the foreseeable future and to provide park staff with the appropriate tools to effectively conserve natural resources. Stewardship is responsible for performing baseline inventories on parks and cataloging natural resources, writing Park Stewardship Plans, problem solving for park staff and developing educational and resource materials for the public.
The main focus areas include; Geographical Information Systems (GIS), vegetation management (e.g. noxious weeds, aquatic nuisance species, rare plants, restoration/ revegetation and fuels mitigation), threatened and endangered species protection, wildlife habitat protection and statewide volunteer programs such as raptor monitoring, weed mapping and significant features monitoring.
The Stewardship team works closely with park staff and specialists to survey parks, keep updated records of natural resources and man-made structures within parks, produce educational information and problem solving guidebooks and create professional quality GIS maps.