The Mammalian Predator Community of Wind Cave National Park, Final Report
Taylor RJ. 1991. The Mammalian Predator Community of Wind Cave National Park, Final Report
The purpose of this report was to describe the mammalian carnivore community of Wind Cave National Park and to discover factors which determine its structure. The initial phase of the project was devoted to surveys of Park records, State records, and local trappers for accounts of carnivores in the southern Black Hills and do a thorough description of the Park's current predator community. Historical records suggest that coyotes, badgers, and bobcats are the carnivore species most consistently present, coyotes comprising the bulk of the individuals. Foxes, raccoons, skunks, and other members of the weasel family have been rare or absent. The second year of this project dealt with radiotracking some of the Park's coyotes and with an experimentatl introduction of skunks. The report concludes that the carnivore fauna of Wind Cave National Park is less diverse than that of the surrounding southern Black Hills and discusses the causative factors that may underlie this phenomenon.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Taylor, Robert
- Date of Issue
- 1991-05-01
- Units
- WICA
- Keywords
- Angostora reservoir, Animal Behavior, Animal Studies, Animals, Badger (Taxidea taxus), Beaver Creek, Behavior, Biodiversity, Bison (Bos bison), Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicians), Bobcat (Lynx rufus), Boundaries, Carnivores, Carrying Capacity, Competition, Cougar (Felis concolor), Coyote (Canis latrans), Database, Deer (Cervidae), Dispersal, Elk (Cervus elaphus), Environmental Assessment, Exclosures, Habitats, Human Impact, Mammal Behavior, Mammals, Management, Mink (Mustela vison), Mountain Lion (Felis concolor), Natural History, Natural Resource Management, Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus), Predation, Predators, Raccoons (Procyonidae), Riparian, Tracks, trappers, Trapping, Ungulates, Visitor Impact, Water, Wildlife, Wolves