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Creating a Sanctuary: Protecting Snails and Restoring Ecosystems at War in the Pacific National Historical Park
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War in the Pacific National Historical Park is working to protect Guam’s biodiversity by managing invasive species like brown tree snakes and little fire ants while safeguarding native wildlife, including the endangered Guam tree snail. A recent study assessed the park’s Guam tree snail population, providing essential data to inform conservation efforts aimed at restoring the island’s fragile ecosystem.

Long-term Trend in the Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Community of the Mancos River at Mesa Verde National Park
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The Mancos River at Mesa Verde National Park is home to a very diverse group of aquatic macroinvertebrates. These insect larvae, worms, and snails play a key role in the cycling of nutrients in aquatic systems and are a great indicator of river health. Here we look at population trends using data collected from 2008-2019 by the Southern Colorado Plateau Network.

Everglades National Park

Gumbo Limbo Trail
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The Gumbo-Limbo trail is a self-guided, paved trail meandering through a shaded, jungle-like hardwood hammock. In the hammock, hardwood trees such as oaks and gumbo limbos form a dense canopy overhead. Look for majestic royal palms, ferns, and air plants such as bromeliads. You may hear or see birds such as warblers, barred owls, or catbirds. Look closely and you may spot a liguus tree snail, the jewel of the hardwood hammock, on the bark of the trees. As the trail passes a p

Everglades National Park

Nine Mile Pond Canoe Trail
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Nine Mile Pond is a 5.2 mile loop. This scenic trail passes through shallow grassy marsh with scattered mangrove islands. Watch for alligators, crocodiles, wading birds, and an occasional endangered snail kite. The trail is marked with numbered white poles. Water levels are good for passage in the fall and winter.

Canyonlands National Park

Scenic Drive Picnic Area: Life in the Balance
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Great Basin National Park

Land Mollusks of Great Basin National Park
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Land snails and slugs are important invertebrate inhabitants of woodland litter and soils, boulder and talus slides, riparian meadows, and vegetation around springs throughout the Great Basin. These land-inhabiting invertebrates play critical roles in these mountain habitats such as decomposing dead plant material for use by bacteria and fungi, recycling important biological nutrients, passively transporting fungal spores through litter, and providing nutrients to predators.

Great Basin National Park

Series: The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 19, No. 2, Winter 2019
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The Midden is the Resource Management Newsletter of Great Basin National Park, published each summer and winter. Find out the latest going on at Great Basin National Park, Nevada in resource management and research. The Midden - Great Basin National Park: Vol. 19, No.2, Winter 2019

Great Basin National Park

Nineteen Species of Terrestrial Mollusks Found in Park
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Land snails and slugs existing in the Great Basin desert may seem like a paradox with valleys of salt flats, rivers that sink into the ground, and long miles between high mountain ranges. However, in Great Basin National Park there exists today, although small and inconspicuous, 18 species of land snails and one species of slug.

NeCus’ Village / Ecola Creek Village
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In January 1806, a whale washed ashore near NeCus’, a Nehalem village. Everyone in the area was talking about it. William Clark and some of the crew went down to see what the fuss was all about.

A Short History of the Liguus Tree Snails Collection
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Everglades

Monitoring Aquatic Macroinvertebrates on the Southern Colorado Plateau
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Aquatic macroinvertebrates, such as insect larvae, snails, and worms, play a vital role in stream ecosystems, both as a food source and as consumers of algae and other organic matter. Because macroinvertebrates are sensitive to environmental change, monitoring them can help to detect chemical, physical, and biological impacts to aquatic ecosystems.

Dinosaur National Monument

Stump Formation
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“Why Black Abalone?”: The Duality of Black Abalone in California
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Black abalone are endangered marine snails. When I told people that I was making a podcast about them, I was often met with the question, “Why black abalone?” If you are curious too, you’re in the right place. I hope to elucidate why black abalone represent an interesting case study in delicate balances: between marine and terrestrial, ancient and Anthropocene, and vulnerability and resiliency in the context of roles they play in their communities and in ours.

Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument

Series: Prehistoric Life of Tule Springs
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Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument preserves thousands of Pleistocene (Ice Age) fossils that help tell the story of an ever-changing ecosystem. These fossils were preserved within expanding and contracting wetlands between 100,000-12,500 years ago. Many of the Pleistocene animals of Tule Springs are still alive today, including the coyote (Canis latrans), jackrabbit (Lepus sp.), and aquatic snails. Some animals went extinct, disappearing from North America entirely.

A Paleontological Survey at Amistad National Recreation Area: Swimming in the Mesozoic and Hunting in the Quaternary
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Paleontologist Christy Visaggi reflects on the fossil record preserved at Amistad National Recreation Area.

Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument

National Park Getaway: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
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Set aside as a national monument in 1969, this lesser-known national park protects one of the richest fossil deposits in the world. Over the past 140 years, paleontologists have also found fossils of plants, mammals, fish, birds, snails, and mollusks. That level of diversity of fossil insects at any one locality is extraordinarily rare in the world.

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Quitobaquito Springs
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As a natural spring leading to a human constructed pond, Quitobaquito has been used by people for over 16,000 years. The area has a rich history and is an important part of the cultural landscape of the O’odham people. Quitobaquito is also home to several endangered species, including the Quitobaquito Pupfish and the Sonoyta Mudturtle.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Petrified Forest - North
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Take a hike on the northern fork of the petrified forest trail, and experience the dramatic otherworldly topography and scattered stumps of Theodore Roosevelt National Park's petrified forest.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Petrified Forest - South
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park contains one of the highest concentrations of petrified wood in the country, and the rolling badlands offer unique opportunities to hike amongst these geological wonders.

28 - Tide Pools
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