2004 Projects - NPS

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Broberg, Len, Technical and administrative support for Crown of the Continent Ecosystem Managers Partnership (Crown of the Continent Managers Partnership - view the forums for final report; 2005 forum summary-pdf copy)

Brown, Perry, Program Support for Rocky Mountains I&M Network and for RM-CESU Activities

Reports:
Mast, M. Alisa and David W. Crow, Effects of 2003 wildfires on stream chemistry in Glacier National Park, Montana

Bahls, Loren, A Survey of Diatom Biodiversity in Glacier National Park

McKinney, Shawn T. and Carl E. Fiedler, Tree squirrel habitat selection and predispersal seed predation in a declining subalpine conifer

Brown, Perry & Burchfield, Jim, International Training Seminar for Protected Areas Stewardship (May 12-15, 2008: Alternative Models of Visitor Management, Yellowstone National Park, WY. Report)

Campbell, Greg, Program Support for the NPS National Historic Landmarks Program, Intermountain Region, and Rocky Mountain Cluster Parks

Campbell, Greg, Traditional Plant Use Study:Bent’s Old Fort NHS and Sand Creek Massacre NHS (Report: Table of Content; Ch 1; Ch 2; Ch 3; Ch 4; Ch 5; Ch 6; Ch 7; Ch 8; Ch 9; Ch 10; Ch 11;
Ch 12; Ch 13; Ch 14; Ch 15; References, Appendix; Acknowledgements)

Campbell, Greg & Foor, Tom, Cultural Affiliation Study/Tribal Consultation Facilitation for Objects that may be Subject to NAGPRA in the Collections of Glacier National Park

Crabtree, Robert, Development and Utility of Multispectral, Remotely-Sensed Imagery to Map Willow Distribution in the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park-Phase II (Report)

Douglas, John and Jamie Ryan Lockman, Lead Isotope and Trace Element Analysis of Nineteenth Century Lead Artifacts recovered from Lewis & Clark, Hudson's Bay Company, and U.S. Army sites of the Pacific Northwestt (Report)

Dyer, Dave, Glacier National Park Herbarium Curation and Database Maintenance

Fiedler, Carl, Identify Sites for Whitebark Pine Restoration, Glacier National Park (Report; Paper)

Gates, Cormack (University of Calgary) & Len Broberg, State of Knowledge of the Ecology of Bison Movements and Dispersal: Implications for Winter Use, Road Grooming, and Bison Management in Yellowstone National Park (Report)

Hauer, Richard, Predicting ecosystem response to the removal of the Elwha River dams, Washington State (Report)

Mills, Scott and Karen Hodges, Evaluating the relative abundance and distribution of snowshoe hares in Yellowstone National Park (Snowshoe Hares in Yellowstone, Yellowstone Science, vol. 13 no. 2; Report)

Moisey, Neil, Development of Visitor Monitoring Programs for NCPN Parks (Report; Trail Monitoring Protocol)

Pletscher, Dan, Conservation of At-Risk Wolverines in Yellowstone NP (Spring 2006 Newsletter; Spring 2007 Newsletter; Report)

Redmond, Roland, Land-cover and Vegetation Mapping in Pinnacles National Monument (Report)

Stanford, Jack, Lake McDonald Fishery Investigations

Woods, Scott and Corbin, Jennifer, Using watershed characteristics to focus monitoring efforts in high-elevation lakes at GRTE (Park Recommendations)

MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY

Albert, Steve, Glacier National Park Going-to-the-Sun Road Mitigation Outreach Facilitation (Report)

Albert, Steve, Greater Yellowstone Regional Traveler and Weather Information System – U.S. Hwy 89 Project (YELL Report; Report -Weather; Report)

Borkowski, John, Evaluating Wildlife Responses to Motorized Winter Use in Yellowstone National Park (Report: Journal Article)

Cherry, Steve, Statistical Support for analysis and design of vital signs monitoring within for the Greater Yellowstone I&M Network (Report)

Clark, Janet, Conduct Gardiner Basin Native Vegetation/Ungulate Winter Range Restoration Workshop Background Info: Introduction, Yellowstone NP, Gallatin NF (Report)

Creel, Scott, Motorized winter recreation and glucocorticoid stress responses in elk

Garrott, Robert, Bison demography in relation to groomed roads during winter (Report; Journal Article; Journal Article 2007; Thesis 2006)

Garrott, Robert, Collaborative Ungulate Habitat and Population Monitoring, Yellowstone National Park (Report, Journal Article)

Graumlich, Lisa, Write information pamphlets on current research efforts in Glacier National Park that inform management decisions (Report; Resource Bulletins- Wildland Fire, Whitebark Pine, and Global Climate Change and Melting Glaciers)

Gray, Stephen and Graumlich, Lisa, Development of Climate Monitoring Protocols for the Greater Yellowstone Network (Report, Appendix 1a, Appendix 1b, Appendix 1c, Appendix 2, Appendix 3, Appendix 4, Appendix 5, Appendix 6, Appendix 7)

Guy, Christopher, Fish Survey on Going to the Sun Highway, Glacier National Park (Report)

Guy, Christopher, Adfluvial Bull Trout Fishery Investigations, Glacier National Park (Report)

Guy, Christopher, Lake McDonald Fishery Study (Report)

Hansen, Andrew, Development of Land Use Change Protocols for The Greater Yellowstone Network (Report)

Hudson, Crystal, Laboratory Assessment of Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Whirling Disease Infection as a part of the Yellowstone National Park Whirling Disease Study

Johnson, Jerry, (1) National Park Service, Exotic Plant Management Teams: An Assessment of the Implementation of this new Model and Recommendations for Future and (2) Needs Assessment for National Park Service Integrated Pest Management Program (Results of the Exotic Plant Management Team Survey; Service Quality Assessment for the National Park Service IPM Program)

Kalinowski, Steven, Genetic Integrity of Westslope Cutthroat Trout in the Gallatin River Watershed, Yellowstone National Park (Report; M.Sc. Thesis)

Kipfer, Todd, Monitoring protocols for the Greater Yellowstone Network inventory and monitoring program including report on aridland soil stability and structure protocol (Vital Signs Monitoring Plan for the Greater Yellowstone Network; Soil Stability and Structure Monitoring Protocol; Soil Stability Brief)

Lanier, William, Integrated Pest Management Plan for Grant-Kohrs Ranch and Powell County Museum and Arts Foundation and Education Video (Report, PowerPoint)

Lawrence, Rick, Mapping Whitebark Pine Distribution throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (Report; Journal Article)

McGlynn, Brian, Seeps and Spring Monitoring Plan for Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area (Report)

Rea, Bill, Interpretive Exhibit Design and Fabrication at Grant Korhs Ranch National Historic Site (Report)

Tobias, Ronald, The Weed Video – Invasives at Arches NP (Report)

Willey, David, Foraging Ecology of Threatened Mexican Spotted Owls (Strix occidentalis lucida) in Grand Canyon National Park (Report for Year 04; Report for Year 05; Final Report 2008)

Willey, David, Wildlife Surveys for Grand Canyon National Park Fire and Aviation Program (Report)

Wood, Shana, Initiate An Intermountain Region Noxious Weed Inventory and Mapping Program

Zabinski, Catherine, Recreation Impacts on Soil Structure and Function (Report)

Zale, Alexander, Spatial Dynamics of Arctic Grayling in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park (Report)

UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO

Bond, Isabel, Camp Wilderness - environmental education at Yellowstone (Report)

Byers, John, Conservation of the Declining Yellowstone Pronghorn Population (Report)

Scott, J. Michael, Assessing the Ecological Content and Context of the National Park System

Wright, Gerald, Coordination of Peer Review of Inventory and Monitoring Plans

Wright, Gerald, Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area Vegetation Mapping Project Using ASTER Satellite Data

Wright, Gerald, Channel Islands National Park Digital Image Library Development

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER

Hogan, Tim, Floristic Inventory for Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP and Curecanti NRA

Lekson, Steve, Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act Consultation and Repatriation, Fort Union National Monument (NPS Report; Federal Register Notice; Executive Summary; Report)

Stallard, Robert, Analysis of Rivers and River Basins within Central Alaska Network Park Units

Weimer, Paul, Virtual Canyonlands Interactive Display Boulder

Williams, Mark, Analysis of PRIMENet Data and Contributions to Final Report (Poster Presentation at National Atmospheric Deposition Program meeting, September 28-29, 2005, Jackson, Wyoming)

Williams, Mark, Developing Screening Procedures and Sampling Protocols for assessment of deposition-sensitive surface waters in the Rocky Mountains (Abstract; Publication; Publication #2; Report)

UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT DENVER

Burton, Lloyd, “Place and Native Voice”  (Report)

Holleran, Michael, Rocky Mountain National Park National Register Evaluation of Historic Structures

Marlow, Michael, Developing educational resources for “Views of the National Parks”
(Status Report; Views Website)

Muller, Brian, Geographic Resource Information Management (GRIM) Team Project Support (Report

Noel, Tom, National Historic Landmark Nomination of Heart Mountain Japanese-American Relocation Center, Park County, Wyoming  (National Historic Landmark Nomination; Map; Photo1; Photo 2)

Summers, Luis, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Documentation-Various Clean Up Projects-located in IMRO, Denver (Reports: Cannonball Pueblo; Margarita Martinez; and Senon S Virgil)

Vlahos, Ekaterini, NPS Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and National Historic Landmarks (NHL) Program projects for the Heritage Partnerships Program for the Intermountain Region

COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY

Baron, Jill & Ojima, Dennis, Modeling the Timeline for Acidification from Excess Nitrogen Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park, Phase III (Publication; Report; Figures)

Brown, Cynthia, Cheatgrass Control and Community Restoration in Rocky Mountain National Park

Brown, Cynthia, Cataloguing local knowledge of restoration techniques

Clements, William, Aquatic and water quality phase III planning in the Greater Yellowstone Network

Carney, Shanna, Allowing Limited Release of NPS Genetic Plant Strains to the Private Sector: Probable Implications for Protecting Genetic Integrity (Report)

Cooper, David, Fens of Yellowstone National Park: Identification, Classification, Geochemistry, Floristics and Vegetation

Cooper, David, Persistence of Willows on the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (Reports- Impact of large herbivores on shrubs; Water tables constrain height recovery of Willow)

Cooper, David, Persistence of Willows on the Northern Range of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming- 2 (Reports- Impact of large herbivores on shrubs; Water tables constrain height recovery of Willow)

Fiege, Mark, Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site Environmental History (Report)

Kalkhan, Mohammed A, Cooperative research to develop fire and fuels mapping protocols in support of the USGS/NPS Vegetation Mapping Program

Kondratieff, Boris, Integrated Pest Management Plan and Educational PowerPoint for Bent’s Old Fort: Focus on Invertebrate Pests

Lebeda, Boyd, Wildland Urban Interface Education Coordination

Loftis, Jim, Clean Water Act Impairments and Use Designations for National Park System Water Resources; Status and Trends of Impaired, Threatened, and Outstanding National/State Resource Waters (FY06 Annual Report; FY08 Annual Report; Report)

Newman, Peter, Assessment and Determination of Transportation-Related Aspects of Carrying Capacity for Yosemite Valley, Yosemite National Park (Report)

Paschke, Mark, Development of Tools to Integrate Restoration Activities in the National Park Service

Wunder, Bruce, Mule Deer Genetic Relatedness Relative to Chronic Wasting Disease Prevalence and Spread in Rocky Mountain National Park (Report)

SALISH KOOTENAI COLLEGE

Swaney, William, Culturally Scarred Tree Study at Glacier National Park (Progress Report; Photo 1; Photo 2)

Swaney, William, Restoration Intern at Glacier National Park (Report; Intern Report)

UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY

Brunson, Mark & Baldwin, Ben, Tehabi Student Interns to assist at Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS and Glen Canyon NRA (Cows Training to Eat Weeds at Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site- one of the projects going on at Grant Kohrs thanks to the participation of Tehabi interns; Report)

Brunson, Mark & Baldwin, Ben, Tehabi Student Intern to Assist with Sage Grouse Study at Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP/Curecanti NRA (Report; Report 2)

Brunson, Mark & Baldwin, Ben, Tehabi Internships - Historic Fence Restoration/Repair at Grant Kohrs Ranch (Report)

Brunson, Mark & Baldwin, Ben, Tehabi Internship – Rocky Mountain Cluster Park project for summers 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 (Report FY05; Report FY08)

Brunson, Mark & Baldwin, Ben, Tehabi Student Intern to Assist with Native Plant Restoration Project and Bent’s Old Fort NHS and Sand Creek Massacre NHS (Report)

Brunson, Mark, Support for National Park Service Grazing Database (Report)

Brunson, Mark, Livestock in National Park Units: A Contemporary and Historical Assessment for Improved Resources Management  (Report)

Dewey, Steve, 2004-2005 Invasive Plant Inventory for Northern Colorado Plateau Network Parks (Report: Arches National Park, Black Canyon of the Gunnison, Bryce Canyon National Park, Canyonlands National Park, Capitol Reef National Park, Cedar Breaks National Monument, Colorado National Monument, Dinosaur National Monument, Hovenweep National Monument, Mesa Verde National Park, Natural Bridges National Monument, Zion National Park)

Luecke, Chris, Remote sensing of watersheds and lake ice coverage as a template for monitoring and assessment of aquatic resources in the Arctic Network of Parks (Report)

White, Michael, Interpreting 250m Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer normalized difference vegetation index in the Colorado Plateau (Report)

UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING

Ben-David, Merav, River Otters in Southwest Alaska Network, A Plan to Estimate Distribution, Relative Abundance, and Minimum Population Size Based on Coastal Latrine Site Surveys and Microsatellites in Katmai, Lake Clark and Kenai Fjords NPS (Report)

Eckles, David, Archeological Data Recovery at 48YE114 for Mitigation of Federal Highways Project, Yellowstone National Park (YELL), Wyoming (Report)

Eckles, David, National Register Testing of a Precontact (McKean Culture) Archeological Site in the Area of Potential Effect of Road Improvements at Virginia Cascade Drive (Report)

Eckles, David, Archeological Inventory and Site Evaluation for Fuels Treatment Projects 2004/2005, Grand Teton National Park

Gerow, Ken, Biostatistics Support for National Park Service Biological Projects

Harlow, Hank, University of Wyoming/National Park Service Research Center (AMK Ranch) Cooperative Research Program

Harlow, Hank, UW-NPS Grand Teton Research Center (2005 Report)

Harlow, Hank, Workshop of the Effects of Lake Drawdown in Jackson Lake (Agenda; Notes;
Priorities)

Latchininsky, Alex, Survey and Mitigate for Effects of Swallow Nests at Colter Bay Visitor Center and Indian Arts Museum (Report)

Pendall, Elise, Determine water sources through isotope analysis of precipitation, Groundwater, streamflow and riparian vegetation (Report)

Trujillo, Kelli, Paleontological Survey/Inventory and Management Plan, Colorado National Monument

Walker, Danny, Archeological Remote Sensing and Testing, Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Williams, Stephen, Greater Yellowstone Network: Belowground biota and processes as a vital sign