Arches National Park and Dinosaur National Monument, Eastern Utah

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Roger N. Scoon
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Dinosaur National Monument

scholarly journals Biogeography of Invertebrates and Plants in Hanging Gardens of the Colroado Plateau

1993 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 17-19
Author(s):  
Nancy Stanton ◽  
Steven Buskirk ◽  
James Fowler ◽  
Ronald Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
National Park ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Bumble Bee ◽  
Insect Communities ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Canyonlands National Park ◽  
Dinosaur National Monument ◽  
Area Survey ◽  
Field Season

The field work portion of our research on the biogeography of invertebrates and vascular plants has been completed. The geomorphological, bumble bee pollinator and plant community models developed during the first two field seasons worked well when applied to new sites in Dinosaur National Monument (DINO), Canyonlands National Park CANY), Arches National Park (ARCH), and Natural Bridges National Monument (NABR). Our research objectives for the 1993 field season were to: (1) complete the survey of plant and insect communities of hanging gardens in DINO, ARCH, CANY, and NABR; and (2) determine the geographic distribution of endemic species identified and the level of endemism within and among parks; and (3) complete the Halls Creek area survey for hanging gardens in Capitol Reef National Park (CARE).

Stranger in a Strange Land: A Brief History of the Paleontological Operations at Dinosaur National Monument

1990 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Chure ◽  
John McIntosh
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
Morrison Formation ◽  
Carnegie Museum ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Dinosaur National Monument ◽  
Park Service ◽  
History Of ◽  
Research Facilities

Discovered in 1909 by Earl Douglass of the Carnegie Museum, the Dinosaur Quarry (DQ) at Dinosaur National Monument has proven to be one of our best windows into the large vertebrate community of the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic). To date, the remains of several hundred individuals belonging to sixteen species of dinosaurs and other vertebrates have been found. The DQ has produced more species, skulls, juveniles, and complete skeletons than any other Morrison Formation quarry. Between 1909 and 1924, the DQ was actively quarried and over 700,000 lbs. of fossils were collected. In 1958 the National Park Service enclosed the unexcavated area of the DQ within a building with both exhibits and research facilities. Since that time over 2,000 bones have been uncovered and left in situ, just as they were deposited. The concept of an enclosed quarry with an in situ exhibit of fossils has been successfully followed at a number of parks both within the U.S. and abroad.

ONGOING CRACK MONITORING AT THE CARNEGIE QUARRY, DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kurt W. Katzenstein ◽  
◽  
Robert Huber ◽  
Eric L. Bilderback ◽  
ReBecca Hunt-Foster
Keyword(s):  
National Monument ◽  
Dinosaur National Monument ◽  
Crack Monitoring

scholarly journals Population and Habitat Ecology of Deer on Devils Tower National Monument

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 77-79
Author(s):  
Greg McDaniel ◽  
Evelyn Merrill ◽  
Fred Lindzey
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Mule Deer ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Habitat Ecology ◽  
National Monument ◽  
Park Service ◽  
Population Numbers

White-tailed (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule deer (0. hemionis) currently use Devils Tower National Monument and adjacent private agricultural lands year round or migrate from the Monument to other areas. In 1989, a game fence was constructed on the west and north borders of the Monument. Enclosure of the Monument by additional fencing could alter habitat use of deer substantially and create many of the problems associated with island reserves. National Park Service management policy directs the Monument to predict changes in the natural resources under its stewardship. Because current deer use of the Monument is not well documented, the Department of Zoology and Physiology and the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, in cooperation with the Devils Tower National Monument, initiated a study in June 1990 to document current population numbers and habitat ecology of white-tailed and mule deer on the Monument as a baseline for monitoring long-term changes in the deer herd.

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