TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 Terrestrial Ecology Program 1 Aquatic Biology Program 2 Natural Resource Sociology Program 2 PROJECT SUMMARIES: RESEARCH 5 Animal Disease Issues in the National Park System: Phase II 7 Influences of Cervid Herbivory on Understory Forage in Old-Growth Systems, Olympic National Park 7 The Ecological Effects of Fire on Fuels and Vegetation at the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument 8 Management of Vegetation at Whitman Mission National Historic Site 9 Livestock Grazing Management Planning and Research At Great Basin National Park 10 The Evolution of a Park: A Case Study of Great Basin National Park 11 Effects of Stocking Fish Into High-Mountain Lakes in North Cascades National Park Service Complex 11 Limnological Studies of Surprise Lake Aniakchak National Monument 14 Water Resources in Mount Rainier National Park 15 Human Waste Management in Backcountry Areas of Mount Rainier National Park and Wilderness 16 Crater Lake Limnological Studies, Crater Lake National Park 18 Nutrient Cycling and Particle Fluxes in Crater Lake Crater Lake National Park 21 Phytoplankton Taxonomy and Ecology of Crater Lake Crater Lake National Park 22 Effects of Climate Change on Lake Level, Heat Budget, and Circulation of Crater Lake 23 Water Resources Management Planning at Great Basin National Park 25 PROJECT SUMMARIES: APPUCATION OF SCIENCE 27 Fisheries and Aquatic Systems 29 PUBLICATION ACTIVITIES, 1992 31 CUMULATIVE LIST OF PUBUCATIONS, 1976-1992 35