The Southwest Alaska Network (SWAN) serves as a regional organization of the National Park Service for inventorying and monitoring Alaska's parks in the maritime ecoregion of southwestern Alaska. ABR, Inc. is assisting the National Park Service in the design and testing of monitoring protocols for implementation in SWAN. This effort has benefited from other efforts to develop regional monitoring protocols and it is expected that many of the protocols will be applicable to other parks with coastal ecosystems, as well as to U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service coastal refuges.