Sec. 502. Interagency team
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The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall jointly establish an interagency team, containing equal numbers of participants from the public and private sectors, to monitor, evaluate, and make recommendations to ensure long-term results required by this Act. The interagency team shall develop a geographic information system for monitoring the Northern Rockies Bioregion. The geographic information system shall be based on satellite-gathered data and shall include comprehensive maps and databases to assist in the detection of changes in the Northern Rockies Bioregion.
The maps and databases included in the geographic information system shall be updated periodically to record the following: Vegetation cover (with species occurrence and densities). Human impacts. Water and air quality. Activities that bear on forest husbandry and restoration. The geographic information system shall include status reports on the progress of ecosystem protection, corridor consolidation, and forest recovery efforts and reports on the status of threatened and endangered species which are primary indicators of ecosystem health.
The interagency team shall assess the potential for facilitating wildlife movements across or under major highways and rail lines within the biological corridors established in title II. This assessment shall identify major crossing points and identify possible management actions to enhance the suitability of such crossing points as movement corridors, including underpasses, overpasses, and other methods for reducing the danger to native wildlife while facilitating movements within the Northern Rockies Bioregion.