Thursday March 8, 2007

8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Western Dakota Technical Institute

800 Mickelson Dr.

Rapid City, SD

Coffee and refreshments provided by The Nature Conservancy starting at 8:30 am.

TNC Chili Feed following the meeting. More details at the meeting.

Scheduled Presentations:

• Mary Lata – Grass fire temperature dynamics
• Beth Burkhart – Highlights of Black Hills National Forest Plant Inventory and Monitoring in 2006: From A to Z (or at least Botrychium to shining Willow)
• Audrey Gabel – Diet of Flying Squirrels in the Northern Black Hills : 2005-2006
• Patti Lynch – Fens of the Black Hills
• Lori Jeffrey – Influence of wildfire on vegetation of managed fuel areas in the Pine Ridge Region of Nebraska
• Matt Lucas – Influence of Late-season Wildfire on Threadleaf Sedge on the Pine Ridge Escarpment of Nebraska
• Dan Licht – Mount Rushmore : The Wild Side (video)
• Amy Symstad – Success of grassland seed mixes in plantings at Wind Cave National Park: Year 2
• Don Hardy – Using undergraduate research projects to monitor succession on old burn sights: Observations of the 1959 Deadwood fire
• Grace Kostel – New vascular plant records for the Oglala and Buffalo Gap National Grasslands
• Andreas Pflitsch – Climatological research in the barometric Caves of the Black Hills
• Cheryl Warren & Heather Morijah – National Grasslands Heritage Proposal
• Cody Wienk – Update on restoration projects at Mount Rushmore and Devils Tower