With so many natural and cultural resources, it's no wonder that researchers often look to Badlands National Park as a place to learn more.
NPS Photo / Larry McAfee
Interested in park research?
There are many research questions posed by cultural and scientific resources at Badlands National Park. If you are interested in conducting research at the park, you must apply for a research permit. For more information on applying for a permit, please visit the National Park Service's Research Permit and Reporting website or contact Badlands National Park directly by phone (605-433-5361) or via email.
To learn more about past research conducted in the park, explore the research portal below.
Locations:New River Gorge National Park & Preserve
Offices:Eastern Rivers and Mountains Inventory & Monitoring Network, Inventory and Monitoring Division
The NPS Inventory & Monitoring Division partnered with New River Gorge National Park and Preserve to study how bats use cliff habitats that overlap with climbing routes, aiming to understand whether recreation might unintentionally disturb sensitive wildlife.
Offices:Inventory and Monitoring Division, Klamath Inventory & Monitoring Network
At Lava Beds National Monument, a species inventory helps park managers understand the rich diversity of lichens in the park, allowing them to craft management strategies to preserve lichens. Located in a semi-arid zone of northern California, cave lichens represent a unique floral component for the region and include many rare or little-known species.
Offices:Inventory and Monitoring Division, Northeast Temperate Inventory & Monitoring Network
The National Park Service (NPS) is on a mission to deepen its understanding of the bees living in parks. Traditional survey methods require significant time, specialized expertise, and the collection of specimens from their natural habitats for species-level identification. With limited bee specialists available and a growing need for efficient, cost-effective methods, the NPS sought an alternative approach.
Locations:Cabrillo National Monument, Channel Islands National Park, Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Offices:Southern California Research Learning Center
In this issue of 3Parks3Stories, we would like to share three stories of successful conservation projects in the Mediterranean parks that were reliant upon partnerships between the NPS and one or more dedicated collaborators. In these stories, we hope you see the mutual benefits of these relationships and the value they bring in the effort to protect, preserve, and understand our national legacy.
Throughout the growing season, volunteers and staff improve park habitats by removing invasive plants. Cut, pull, dig, or spray—and repeat! Learn which ones are the biggest problem and how you can help.
Locations:Craters Of The Moon National Monument & Preserve
Offices:Inventory and Monitoring Division, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science Directorate, Upper Columbia Basin Inventory & Monitoring Network
Along Idaho’s U.S. Highway 26, National Park Service ecologists are enhancing the efficiency of sagebrush restoration and teaming up with a long-time partner of mankind: the mule.
The Point Reyes mountain beaver—a primitive rodent that isn’t a beaver—is a sort of mythical creature at Point Reyes National Seashore. Almost no one has seen one in-person with their own eyes. Not even National Park Service Wildlife Biologists Taylor Ellis and Matt Lau, who just completed their first season of surveys as a part of a 2-year mountain beaver habitat modeling project in collaboration with UC Berkeley. Still, the survey season was a great success.
