Annual status report: 1998 black-tailed prairie dog monitoring for Scotts Bluff National Monument
Rizzo WM. 2000. Annual status report: 1998 black-tailed prairie dog monitoring for Scotts Bluff National Monument. Columbia, MO
Black-tailed prairie dog monitoring at Scotts Bluff National Monument (SCBL) and six other prairie parks began in 1995 to collect baseline data while simultaneously developing a monitoring protocol for the NPS Prairie Cluster Long-term Ecological Monitoring program. The objective of prairie dog monitoring is to determine: 1) prairie dog density and total abundance; 2) size and location of prairie dog colonies, achieved by producing annual colony maps; and 3) surveillance of sylvatic plague.