This worksheet is meant to provide a written documentation of the choices and calculations that you made when creating your monitoring program and as a guide to working with the site. Once the worksheet is filled out for a project, it becomes a reference point for all those who follow behind you who must continue your programs and analyze your data. It also provides, in writing, a rationale, philosophy, and design that can be excerpted and placed into proposals and reports. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, it creates a document that can be sent out for review to your statistical support team, who will be happy to see that you have considered many of the biological and statistical issues that many managers now skip when creating a new monitoring program.

The following downloadable worksheets are provided in text (.txt) and Microsoft Word (.doc) formats. We also provide web versions that have links to appropriate sections on this web site. These worksheets are not meant to be printed out and filled in by hand as the spaces are too small, rather they are designed to be loaded into a word-processor. You can copy and paste them into your favorite word-processor or you can download them.

Worksheet for Developing a Long-term Status Monitoring Program

• Microsoft Word (.doc) version (this will open up in a new window)
• text (.txt) version
• web/html version