Chapter I Intro & Objectives - SPREP

Dear Reviewer:
5 March 2007
Draft #1 of Chapters I (Introduction), II (Methods), and III (Background) of the management
plan are now completed. These files are in PDF format. A limited number of hard copies are
also available at the PIPA office.
Your review of these chapters is greatly appreciated.
Please write down (or type up) your comments, insights, and editorial findings on a separate
sheet. Please indicate the chapter, section, page number, and line number for each comment.
This is so that the appropriate place in the text for your comment can be identified.
We apologize for the length of the draft, but there was so much previous information that it
was impossible to trim this down without losing the colorful, complex and varied history of
the Phoenix Islands. We encourage you all to spend the time to read through this background
information. We are confident that you will, as we did, find the journal most interesting. The
knowledge you will gain will most certainly be extremely useful as we formulate
management approaches for this very important protected area.
There are still more than 100 reports that have been identified relating to the Phoenix Islands.
We are sure that there are other reports that we are not aware of. If you uncover reports not
cited here, please provide this office with a copy.
We would appreciate if you could have your review comments back to the PIPA office by the
1 st of May 2007.
Your timely review of this material is greatly appreciated. We look forward to receiving your
review comments.
Sincerely,
K. Roger Uwate, Ph.D.
NEAq Consultant
Tukabu Teroroko
PIPA Director