Science & Research

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Bryan Gorsira

Manassas National Battlefield Park is an oasis for visitors and researchers because it offers some of the best protected cultural heritage and natural landscapes in the nation. The park is characterized by gently rolling hills with a patchwork of open fields and forests. It is part of the Culpeper basin and is one of the region's most unspoiled areas.

Each year, many research projects are permitted at Manassas that visitors may never see. Our staff need the accurate and current natural and cultural resource information this research provides to best care for the park. Important issues at the park include, but are not limited to, air pollution, water quality, habitat fragmentation, invasive exotic species, rare species conservation and restoration of disturbed natural and cultural landscapes.

National Park Service staff, experts from other federal agencies, scientists and graduate students in academia, and independent researchers conduct scientific research in the park. Prospective researchers must apply for a permit.




 
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Research in Nature & Ecology

Articles on plants, wildlife, geology, and more.

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Studying History & Culture

Articles on Archeology, History, Ethnography, and more.

 

Source: Data Store Saved Search 5579 (results presented are a subset). To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.

 

Source: Data Store Saved Search 5573. To search for additional information, visit the Data Store.

 

Species List

One of the primary goals of the National Capital Region Network (NCRN) is to develop and maintain verified, substantiated, and certified vascular plant and vertebrate species lists for each network park. The information presented in these web-based species lists are subsets of data managed in NPSpecies, which is the master biodiversity database for the National Park Service, and is the tool used by NCRN for meeting this goal.

The species lists presented here have all gone through a certification process. This involves the evaluation and review of the species information by local experts who are well-versed in the biology, taxonomy, and nomenclature of species in the network parks.

 

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Visit NPSpecies for more comprehensive information and advanced search capability. Have a suggestion or comment on this list? Let us know.

Last updated: October 28, 2024

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