Thursday March 10, 2005

I think we had another successful meeting this year. There were 40 participants representing 4 federal and state agencies, 4 colleges and universities, and 3 non-governmental organizations.

Agenda

Presentations:

•  Amy Symstad (USGS) - Extent of old-growth forest at Mount Rushmore National Memorial

•  Peter Brown (RMTRR) - Fire, climate, and forest structure in pre-settlement Black Hills forests

•  Jack Butler (USFS) - Current research projects at the Rocky Mt. Research Station

•  StephanieWacker and Jack Butler (USFS) - Fire/invasive plants in the Jasper Fire Area

•  Elaine Ebbert (TNC) and Beth Burkhart (BHNF) - Vegetation management and monitoring at the Whitney Preserve

•  Marie Curtin (NPS) - Monitoring Range Production and Condition at Wind Cave National Park

•  Cody Wienk (NPS) - New software application for vegetation monitoring

•  Audrey Gabel & Mark Gabel (BHSU) - Gasteromycetes Collected From Sand Dune Areas in Harding and Perkins Counties

•  Mark Gabel & Audrey Gabel (BHSU) - A comparison of plant and fungal species diversity at seven sites in the Black Hills

•  Susan Rolfsmeier (CSC) - The Identity of Lappula fremontii (Torr.) Greene in the Great Plains

•  Teresa Zimmerman (SDSU) - Variation in gastrointestinal morphology of deer in the southern Black Hills

•  Bruce McIntosh - Update on site indexing of quaking aspen ( Populus tremuloides ) in Nebraska

•  Chuck Butterfield (CSC) - Natural revegetation of burn piles and invasion by Lactuca species following the Jasper fire at Jewel Cave

•  Katherine Zacharkevics (BHNF) – “New finds” in the northern Black Hills

•  Marie Curtin (NPS) - "The Ware Collection of Glass Models of Plants"