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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Mike Scott for the enormous amount of work he has put into making GAP what it is today. Thanks to Kathy Merk, who has continually gone the extra mile, especially with shepherding the state projects through Research Work Orders and frequently holding it all together. Special thanks to Reid Goforth and Connie Walker for their combined efforts in guiding and administering the Gap Analysis Program at the National Biological Service's (NBS) Division of Cooperative Research. Thanks to Doyle Frederick, John Mosesso, and John Moeller of the NBS Office of Inventory and Monitoring, who, along with Reid and Connie, have been extremely supportive of the program, especially during its transition from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to the National Biological Service. Thanks to Amos Eno and the staff of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, who funded the early development of the GAP concept. Without those mentioned above there could not have been a Gap Analysis Program. Thanks also to each of the GAP principal investigators, the biologists, ecologists, geographers, computer specialists, statisticians, planners, social scientists, agency administrators, and those in private businesses and organizations who share the vision of objective data and information for biological resources developed through open-minded cooperation. Thanks to all the graduate students who work so hard for so little, producing so much.

Thanks to Brian Biggs, Blair Csuti, Frank Davis, Karen Dvornich, Matt McCune, Sue McMurray, David Stoms, Sara Vickerman, and Doug Wunneberger for their help in producing this report.