Biological Resource Management Division

The Biological Resource Management Division (BRMD) is part of the NPS Natural Resource Program Center and the Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate. The Division maintains offices in Fort Collins and Lakewood, Colorado and Washington, D.C.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Midwest Region

Mission
Our Mission is to provide the Service with expertise and leadership needed to preserve, protect, and manage biological resources and related processes in the National Park System.

Services
BRMD provides specialized scientific and technical assistance to three organizational levels of the National Park Service: to individual parks, to the park system as a whole, and to the Park Service leadership. Its staff provides program leadership for the management of biological resources and ecosystem processess. BRMD provides expertise in conservation biology, wildlife health, social services, rare and endangered species, integrated pest management and invasive species management.

BRMD provides the following services to Parks & Partners in Biological Resource Management

• Interpret and formulate policy.
• Plan, train, coordinate, and implement biological resource management activities and programs of broad Service-wide importance.
• Scientific evaluation and assistance on management
• Develop strategies for ecosystem, invasive, and restoration management.
• Identify and promote Service-wide biological research needs.
• Provide wildlife health services.

Main Office
Natural Resource Program Center
Biological Resource Management Division
1201 Oakridge Drive, Suite 200
Fort Collins, CO 80525
Phone: (970) 225-3592
Fax: (970) 225-3585

DID YOU KNOW?

International Migratory Bird Day is an event to celebrate the journeys of migratory birds between their breeding grounds in the U.S. and Canada and their wintering grounds in Latin America and the Caribbean. International Migratory Bird Day takes place on the second Saturday in May each year and will be held on May 9th this year, but can be celebrated any time throughout the year. The National Park Service is a supporter of International Migratory Bird Day again this year. Birds have long been indicators of environmental change, sounding the alarm about the impacts of pesticides, polluted water, and the loss of contiguous forest. The reactions of birds to weather have long been noted. For hundreds of years, farmers have used the arrivals of migratory birds to make decisions about planting crops. Changes in the movements of some species is just one indicator of the warming of the Earth's atmosphere. As the rate of warming increases, International Migratory Bird Day explores how climate change will affect birds and how we can reduce our impact. For more information, visit http://www.birdday.org.
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