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Guide to the NPS Paleontology Program Records, part of the NPS History Collection.
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This biannual newsletter of the Mojave Desert Network Inventory and Monitoring Program features: The Program Manager's Corner; welcome to new field staff; a feature about biological soil crusts by Janelle Lincks, one of our vegetation technicians; highlights from the field season from field staff Kyle Smith and Sofia Elizarraras; a data package publication; and our spring and summer monitoring schedule.
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It’s officially that time of year when the young coho, chinook, and steelhead have started emerging from their gravel nests (redds) in the streams monitored by the San Francisco Bay Area Network in Marin County, California. We’ve seen some of these little fry doing well during special winter surveys in Muir Woods National Monument. Hopefully, our summer surveys will show high survival despite challenges like big winter storms.
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Less than 4% of the tallgrass prairie that once covered 170 million acres of North America remains today. Park managers use fire and grazing treatments to maintain tallgrass prairie ecosystems at Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. The Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network monitors these park prairies to evaluate the effectiveness of management treatments and help parks protect these vanishing ecosystems.
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The Plateau Postcard is the official newsletter of the Southern Colorado Plateau Inventory and Monitoring Network. In this issue, we highlight the exciting and new scientific journal put out by Petrified Forest National Park, interview our newest partner about their efforts to track white-nose syndrome in regional bat populations, discuss special food diets while working in the field, and share our latest publications and 2025 field schedule.
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At Lewis and Clark National Historical Park, staff are developing a plan that will help restore the park’s degraded prairies, wetlands, dunes, and coastal forests. To better tailor this ongoing restoration effort, they needed to know more about the species that reside in the park, including bryophytes and lichens.
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At San Juan Island National Historical Park, a recent species inventory is giving park managers the information they need to help safeguard rare and special plants. Conservation of rare species helps maintain their genetic diversity as well as preserving the unique ecological and cultural functions they serve.
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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.
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Curious about the northwestern pond turtle in southern Oregon and northern California? Explore its natural history in this edition of our quarterly “Featured Creature,” brought to you by the Klamath Inventory and Monitoring Network.
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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.
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You can be a Heartland Inventory and Monitoring Network Junior Scientist! Explore what it is like to be a scientist that monitors plants, animals, and their habitats national parks. You will explore the 15 parks of the Heartland Network, make observations, identify animals and plants, and learn why scientists use scientific names for organisms. Visit a Heartland Network Park to complete the activities in the booklet or download the booklet here.
Great Sand Dunes National Park & Preserve
How Much is Too Much: Ungulate Use of Wetlands in Great Sand Dunes National Park, 2016-2019
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In recent years, something new and concerning caught the attention of staff at Great Sand Dunes National Park. Elk were using the sandsheet wetlands more and more. Monitoring from 2016 to 2019 by the NPS Rocky Mountain Inventory and Monitoring Network and park staff revealed that heavy use by ungulates (hoofed mammals) was degrading many wetland sites. This article summarizes a report of baseline ungulate use and wetland conditions in the park and potential management tools.
Assateague Island National Seashore
2025 Annual Horse Population Update for Assateague Island National Seashore
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2025 Update! Horses at Assateague Island National Seashore are managed as a wildlife population. Regular monitoring of population dynamics is necessary to support the long-term fertility control program that was initiated in 1994 to reduce the numbers of the Maryland herd, and now, management of the population close to the goal range of 80-100 individuals.
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Forests in Cuyahoga Valley National Park are responding positively to nearly a decade of white-tailed deer management. Although native, at high densities white-tailed deer can negatively impact forest vegetation. A recent study using data from the park’s long-term monitoring program found a reduction of woody browse, forest regeneration, and decreases in browse on the indicator species trillium.
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Fort Necessity National Battlefield park staff aimed to find out if Appalachian cottontail inhabited the park, so they collaborated with the Inventory and Monitoring Division to survey for their scat.
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At Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park and Curecanti National Recreation Area, long-term vegetation monitoring provides park managers with useful information for decision making on topics including changes in climate, grazing, and fire management. A recent report summarizes monitoring from 2011 to 2022 of vegetation and soil conditions provides management recommendations for their conservation.
Assateague Island National Seashore
Outside Science (inside parks): Bird Health at Assateague Island
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Assateague Island, way out on the Maryland coast, may be famous for its wild horses, but it’s also a great spot for birds. In this episode of Outside Science (inside parks), park scientists and interns are giving birds a health check-up to make sure they’re doing okay.
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Invasive exotic plants are one of the most significant threats to natural resources in the national parks today. To provide early warning of weed invasions, the Northern Colorado Plateau Network monitors target plants in park areas where they are likely to first establish: along roads, trails, and waterways. Find out what we've learned at Curecanti National Recreation Area.
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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.
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Forest regeneration in the National Capital Region continues to slowly improve, especially in parks that manage their deer populations. A look at forest regeneration capacity based on monitoring data from 2024.