Badlands

Four year project: Prepare Historic Resources Study for Badlands National Park

Conduct Emergency Salvage Collection of Fossils at the Titanothere Bone Bed

Investigate Genetic Bottlenecks of BADL Bighorn sheep: Implications of Heterozygosity Loss

Research Use of Prescribed Fire to Control Yellow Sweetclover in a Cool-Season Mixed Grass Prairie

Explore Habitat Associations of White River Fish Within Badlands NP

Determine the Erosion Rates at Selected Fossil Sites to Develop a Paleontological Monitoring Program

Research Secondary Exotic Plant Invasions of Treated Canada Thistle Patches

Assess Water Resources Biodiversity in the Sage Creek Wilderness

Assess Long-Term Viability of Restored Swift Fox in Badlands NP and South Dakota

Evaluate Water Quality and Discharge at the CCC Spring Complex

Evaluate Status of Bobcat Population in Badlands and Wind Cave NPs

Restore Genetic Variation in Black-Footed Ferret Metapopulation

Three Year Project: Backlog Cataloguing of Dr. Phil Bjork Collections (1953-1969)

Study Paleontology and Geology of the Cedar Pass Area, Badlands NP

Evaluate the Use of Fossil Turtles to Interpret Ancient Climate at Badlands NP

Conduct Elemental Analysis of Lichens in Five Parks to Establish Baselines for Increasing Air Pollution

Inventory Burrowing Owl Populations to Enhance Visitors’ Viewing Opportunities in Badlands NP

Conduct Five-Year Project: Conduct Archeological Inventory of South Unit

Three Year Project: Inventory Fossils Located in Offsite Collections

Three Year Project: Conduct Geoarcheological Study to Increase Knowledge of Resources

Three Year Project: Prepare Cultural Landscape Report - Historic Fossil Collecting Sites

Prepare Cultural Affiliation Study for White River Badlands, SD

Determine Habitat Use, Resource Selection, and Selected Demographics of BADL Bison

Reintroduce Bison Stronghold District

Restore Former Agricultural Lands to Native Prairie

BADL Parkwide Archeological Inventory

Catalog Backlog of Musuem Specimens

Prepare Cultural Landscape Report – Ethnographic Landscapes Associated with Oglala Lakota

Conduct Collections Condition Survey

Develop Paleontological Cyclic Prospecting Program

Complete Baseline Mapping of Fossil Bone Beds

Determine Canada Thistle Distribution and Environmental Risks of Treatment

Conservation Genetics of the Black-Footed Ferret

Prepare 3 Geologic Quadrangle maps of Surficial and Bedrock Materials of the South Unit

Backlog Cataloguing of Cedar Pass Collections (ca, 1960s)

Digitize a Geologic Map of the South Unit

Reintroduce Bison to Conata Area (Burns Basin)

Provide Improved Fossil Education

Assess the Impact of Invasive Yellow Sweetclover on Native Prairie Succession, BADL

Verify and Catalog GIS Data

Document Significant Fossil Localities within the Poleslide Member, BADL

Disease Monitoring of Terrestrial Predators Around Badlands NP

Document Location and Distribution of Nine Rare Plant Species at Badlands NP

Conduct Appraisal of Museum Property to Increase Visitor Support of Collections Management

Survey Raptors to Enhance Visitors’ Viewing Opportunities in BADL

Enhance Swift Fox Restoration Success Through Habitat and Disease Risk Assessments in BADL

Complete Restoration of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in BADL

Expand Habitat Assessments in Conjunction with 2005 Swift Fox Restoration in BADL

Backlog Cataloging of Dr. Gary Johnson Collections and McDonald/Harksen Collections

Protect Paleontological Resources at BADL

Expand Park Paleontological Database to Cover all of North Unit

Geologist in Parks: Provide Onsite Education at Big Pig Dig in Increase Visitor Understanding

Expand Park Paleontological Database to Cover all of Cedar Pass Area

Protect Fossil Resources Through the Use of Rare Earth Element (REE) and Trace Element Analysis

Quantify 2006 Wild Born Production and Status of Swift Fox Population at BADL

Model Nutritional Carrying Capacity of Bighorn Sheep at BADL

Ascertain Role of Carnivores in Transmission of Sylvatic Plague In and Around BADL

Protect Cultural Resources Through Conservation of Ghost Shirt from 1890 Reservation Era

Baseline Research to Authenticate a Native American Ghost Shirt (1890’s)

Great Plains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

Great Plains
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit