Fauna Series No. 2 Cover Contents Foreword Introduction Part I Part II

Fauna of the National Parks of the United States CONTENTS Cover Foreword Introduction PART I Perpetuation and utilization of primitive wildlife values: Men and birds in joint occupation of national parks Men and mammals in joint occupation of national parks The primitive persists in bird life of Yellowstone Park A wilderness-use technique National parks and wilderness use PART II Present status of national parks wildlife and the restoration program: Report on the current status of large mammals in the national parks Reports concerning wildlife restoration: Winter range of the northern Yellowstone elk herd and a suggested program for its restoration Wildlife management in Grand Canyon National Park Suggested wildlife management plan for Grand Canyon National Park Wildlife of Grand Canyon National Monument Proposed extension of Mesa Verde National Park Wildlife restoration plan for Mesa Verde National Park Guadalupe extension of the Carlsbad Caverns National Park Trumpeter swans in Yellowstone Reports concerning administrative phases of wildlife management: Overgrazing as a landscape problem Research reserves Buffer areas Wildlife management under emergency conservation work Directions for faunal research in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park issued to the naturalist technician in charge Index (omitted from on-line edition) ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Pelican nests exposed to gulls 2. Pelican eggs eaten by gulls 3. Pelican fledglings baking in sun 4. Young pelicans congregate in pods 5. The national-park idea 6. Man's normal utilization of land 7. Animals disjoined from their natural habits 8. Park animals in their natural background 9. Park animals not in their natural background 10. Canada geese frequent the roadside 11. Sitting pelicans decide to abandon their nests 12. Osprey nest beside the highway 13. The lake 14. Two little downy grebes 15. Ruddy ducks court and fight 16. The blackbird 17. Portion of Kaibab winter range 18. Perhaps the greatest deer spectacle—one perfectly healthy buck 19. Buffalo round-up 20. Product of artificial feeding 21. Moose 22. Antelope in Indian Gardens 23. Under unfavorable conditions 24. East slope of Blacktail Deer Creek Valley 25. Grassland of Yellowstone elk winter range 26. End of the range 27. Sagebrush graveyard 28. Overbrowsed Chrysothamnus 29. Willow thickets killed along Gardiner River 30. Game trails, juniper, sagebrush, on Yellowstone winter range 31. Juniper, pinon—stripped as high as elk can reach 32. Elk-browsed Douglas fir 33. Elk-browsed juniper 34. - 35. Elk strip the bark from mature aspens 36. Overbrowsed trees—what is meant by loss of food and habitat 37. Erosion is under way 38. Hillside trails—a sign of overgrazing 39. Inner gorge of the Colorado 40. Proposed pronghorn range, Grand Canyon National Monument 41. Old earth dam across lake outlet 42. Dry lake bed at foot of Vulcans Throne 43. Vegetation of the Sandrocks 44. Red Rock Lake 45. The trumpeter swan poster 46. Elk trails scarring the hillsides 47. Elk-browsed junipers and Douglas fir 48. Sagebrush carcasses 49. Aspen trunks, smooth and white 50. Aspen trunks, scarred and black 51. The end result: aspens dying 52. Erosion symphony—Estes Park 53. - 54. Scenes along East Rim Drive, Grand Canyon National Park 55. The deer-browsed manzanitas of Yosemite National Park 56. Strange little ponderosa pines 57. - 58. Overgrazing in Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park 59. High Line Canal, Rocky Mountain National Park 60. Waterfowl nesting site makes way for road, Zion National Park 61. Research area program

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