The State of the Nation's Ecosystems 2007

External Review Draft April 26, 2007

Cover of Draft ReportIn 2002, the Heinz Center released the first full edition of The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems report. Since 2002, the Center has undertaken a major process to revise and strengthen a number of indicators, plus the data for all indicators have been updated.

During these past five years, the Center has convened a number of technical working groups, who were charged with improving entire suites of indicators, such as landscape pattern and non-native species, or more targeted revisions, such as the indicators addressing changing stream flows. Please see pages 4-18 for a listing of participants in the various groups. While this draft report includes a number of improved indicators, we expect the process of refining and improving indicators to continue, at some level, well into the future. Please refer to Chapters 1 and 2 for more details on the process and the overall report design.

The review process that is underway will culminate with the release of a fully revised and updated version of the report in late 2007. The Center is actively planning the “next steps” toward ensuring that this reporting series continues in a formal manner over the years to come.

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(These are Zipped MS Word documents. Each Zip includes the Excel form for entering comments, as well.)

For questions or comments, please contact Kent Cavender-Bares (bares@heinzctr.org).