Series: The Midden – Great Basin National Park: Vol. 25, No. 2, Winter 2025

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. 25, No. 2, Winter 2025. https://www.nps.gov/grba/learn/news/midden.htm

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    Article 1: The 2025 Great Basin Bumble Bee Bioblitz

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    Find out more about the sixteenth BioBlitz at Great Basin National Park, focusing on Bumble Bees with the help of the Xerces Society and the Mountain States Bumble Bee Atlas. Read more

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    Article 2: Deconstructing Lehman Caves

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    Get a first-hand account of what it's like to remove a nearly 50-year old cave lighting system. Read more

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    Article 3: Seed Collecting with the Great Basin Institute

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    Where do you get native seed when you need to revegetate a burned or flooded area? For many public lands, it's a painstaking process to find and collect those seeds. Learn about how the Seeds of Success crew found and collected seeds in the Park. Read more

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    Article 4: New Minimum Age for Lehman Caves

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    How can we tell the age of Lehman Caves? Slowly we are piecing together the story of its origins. Here's is a new chapter in that story. Read more

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    Article 5: 25 Years of Recollections

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    It’s hard to believe, but you are reading the 50th issue of The Midden, the Resource Management Newsletter of Great Basin National Park. The publication started in 2001, published biannually. As the name hints, The Midden, just like packrat middens, has become a treasure trove of information for those who want to learn about the past. Read more