This report is the first of a series of reports on the status and trends of the nation's plants, animals, and ecosystems. It represents an effort to bridge the gap between scientists and resource managers, policy makers, and the general public. Usually, scientists tend to write for scientific journals and communicate with other scientists: this report attempts to collect a great variety of scientific data and interpret it for the nonscientist while maintaining the full credibility of the data. Published by U.S. Department of the Interior, in 1995.
