National Park Service

This report presents data from the 2010 field season for the Sand Beach component of the North Coast and Cascades Network (NCCN) Intertidal Monitoring Protocol (Fradkin and Boetsch in press). The Intertidal Monitoring Protocol is part of the Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service (NPS). This program focuses on "vital signs", which are defined as "information-rich attributes that are used to track the overall condition, or "health" of park natural resources to provide early warning of situations that require intervention" (Fancy et al. 2009).