Bats of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Cowpens National Battlefield, Guildford Courthouse National Military Park, Kings Mountain National Military Park, Ninety Six National Historic Site
Loeb S. 2007. Bats of Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Cowpens National Battlefield, Guildford Courthouse National Military Park, Kings Mountain National Military Park, Ninety Six National Historic Site. United States Forest Service. Clemson, South Carolina
The Cumberland Piedmont Network is one of 32 Inventory and Monitoring Networks established by the National Park Service as part of the Natural Resource Challenge. The network consists of 14 parks ranging in size from 89 ha to >21,000 ha. The goals of the Inventory and Monitoring Networks are to obtain information on the status of each park’s natural resources, monitor these resources over time, and make this information available for park planning, management, and decision making. Although individual Inventory and Monitoring Networks contain parks with similar geographic and biological characteristics, there is considerable variation among parks within a network. The 14 parks within the Cumberland Piedmont Network are in six physiographic regions and cover a range of ecosystems. The five Cumberland Piedmont parks covered in this report occupy a diverse array of habitats ranging from bottomland hardwoods to pine and pine-hardwood forests, upland hardwood forests, granitic domes, and wetlands. The parks also vary considerably in the amount of urbanization and development that has occurred in the surrounding areas. The goal of this study was documentation of 90% of the bat species occurring within Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site (CARL), Cowpens National Battlefield (COWP), Guilford Courthouse National Military Park (GUCO), Kings Mountain National Military Park (KIMO), and Ninety Six National Historic Site (NISI). Bats are one of the least studied groups of wildlife and basic inventories of many areas have not been conducted (Weller and Zielinski 2006). No bat surveys had been conducted in any of the five parks prior to this study to our knowledge.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Loeb, Susan
- Date of Issue
- 2007-07-27
- Publisher
- United States Forest Service
- Units
- CARL , COWP , CUPN , GUCO , KIMO , NISI
- Keywords
- Bat, Inventory, Mammal, Mammals Inventory Reports, Survey, Vertebrate