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Reporting Year:
2022
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Park:
Fort Laramie
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Permit Type:
Monitoring
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Name of principal investigator or responsible official:
Dr Amy Symstad
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Office Phone:
605-745-1191
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Mailing Address:
Wind Cave National Park
26611 U.S. Highway 385 Hot Springs, SD 57747 US |
Office Fax:
605-745-1162
Office Email:
asymstad@usgs.gov
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Additional investigators or key field assistants
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Project Title
Supplemental vegetation monitoring plots at Fort Laramie National Historic Site to accelerate learning of the Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) model
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Park-assigned Study or Activity #:
FOLA-00034
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Park-assigned Permit #:
FOLA-2022-SCI-0010
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Permit Start Date:
Jun 06, 2022
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Permit Expiration Date:
Jun 09, 2022
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Scientific Study Starting Date:
May 27, 2021
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Estimated Scientific Study Ending Date:
Oct 01, 2022
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Study Status:
Continuing
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Study Closeouts:
___ A final report has been provided to the park or will be provided to the park within the next two years
___ Copies of field notes, data files, photos, or other study records, as agreed, have been provided to the park
___ All collected and retained specimens and retained material originating from such specimens have been cataloged into the NPS catalog system and NPS has processed loan agreements as needed.
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Activity Type:
Monitoring
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Subject/Discipline:
Exotic / Invasive Plants
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Purpose of Scientific Study or Science Education Activity during the reporting year:
The Annual Brome Adaptive Management (ABAM) project is a consortium of seven parks in the Northern Great Plains working together to better understand how to control invasive annual grasses (including Bromus species) through an adaptive management approach. This approach is supported by a quantitative model that uses current data from standardized vegetation monitoring plots in all seven parks to annually update the model's parameters and predictions regarding the effects of different management actions on invasive annual grasses and other components of the mixed-grass prairie plant community. This updating is called "learning." Currently, the ABAM model has little information about the effects of the herbicide indaziflam, applied alone or together with the herbicide imazapic, at different times during the growing season, on target invasive annual grasses and other components of the vegetation. The purpose of this study is to increase the amount of information about this herbicide and therefore accelerate the rate of learning accomplished in the adaptive management cycle.
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Findings and status of Scientific Study or accomplishments of Science Education Activity during the reporting year:
Findings are presented in the attached document. Study end date was changed to 2022 because NPS Northern Great Plains Inventory & Monitoring Network will monitor these plots in 2023 and later.
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For Scientific Studies (not Science Education Activities), were any specimens collected and removed from the park but not destroyed during analysis?
No
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Funding (specific for this Park and this year) |
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| NPS Funding $1,250.00 | |
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Other Governmental Agencies Funding
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| All other Funding $0.00 | |
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OMB # 1024-0236 Exp.Date 09/30/2023 Form No. 10-226 |