WILDLIFE DIVERSITY SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM

Grantee

Camp Arroya Nature Trail

Clarence Pederson

Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve native landscape arboretum

Mark Ernste

Bird habitat development for the Haakon County Outdoor Learning Center

Tanya McIlravy

Native wildlife awareness program

Melissa Horton

Ottumwa Rural Attendance Center schoolyard habitat

Tanya McIlravy

YMCA Camp Leif Ericson habitat restoration and nature education

Phil Olson

Kiwanis-Mary Hall Park native plant demonstration

Thomas Allen

Curriculum and resourceguide for "Fragile Legacy - Rare Animals of SD"

Jennifer Fowler

A guide to wildlife and wildlife watching in northeast SD

Dennis Skadsen

Birds - At home on the range tour

Justin Jessop

Native wildlife field trips

Susan Ricci-Fox

Nesting ecology of raptors in western SD

Craig Knowles

Bringing fire back to the land traveling kiosk

John Davidson

Field guide to the tiger beetles of Nebraska and SD

Stephen Spomer and Matthew Brust

Cultivating a native environment

Diane Melvin

Greenbelt education enhancement project

Stan Hoffart

Bat books for SD elementary school libraries

Western Bat Working Group

Encouraging appreciation for the smallest of wild critters with "Bug Zone" live insect presentations and insect discovery resource kit

Friends of Maga Ta-Hohpi Environmental Center

An educator's curriculum and resource guide for the "South Dakota Breeding Bird Atlas II"

Jennifer Fowler

Spiders of the Fort Pierre National Grassland

L. Brian Patrick

Field guide to SD fishes

Steve and Sheila Wall

Exhibit display - Prairie native vegetation map

City of Watertown

Nature Trackers

Bette Poppen, Girl Scouts

Granite Springs outdoor classroom

Kevin Yeo

Grantee

Solitary ground nesting bees of SD

Paul Johnson and Nicomas Dollar

2001 mollusk survey at Whitney Preserve

Tamara Anderson

Survey of tiger beetles in the Black Hills of SD

Scott Weins and Elizabeth Krueger

Survey of unionid mollusks of the Missouri River and related reservoirs in SD

Ellet Hoke

Land snail survey of Custer State Park

Tamara Anderson

Survey of freshwater mussels in tributaries of the James River Basin

Steve Wall

Preparation of a field guide of Black Hills land snails

Tamara Anderson

Monitoring Oreohelix snails

Tamara Anderson

Survey for additional colonies of the endemic Black Hills fritillary butterfly

Stephen Spomer

American burying beetle surveys in southwestern SD

Molly Davis

Investigating the identity of a tiger beetle from the Black Hills of SD

Stephen Spomer

Species composition of freshwater snails in three ecoregions of SD

Bruce Stephen

Surveys for prairie-dependent moths in northeast SD

Dennis Skadsen

Habitat preferences of ground beetle species in the northern Black Hills

David Bergmann

Snail response to fire in the Black Hills

Tamara Anderson

Conifer forest dwelling elateroid beetles of western SD

Paul Johnson

Survey for American burying beetles

Keith Perkins

Freshwater snails of the prairie pothole region of SD

Bruce Stephen

Grantee

A survey to identify and document mushrooms and other fleshy fungi in the Black Hills of SD

Audrey Gabel

Inventory of plants at the Whitney Preserve at Cascade Creek

Elaine Ebbert

Floristic inventory of the Black Elk Wilderness, Black Hills National Forest, SD

Hollis Marriott

Rapid assessment of plant communities of the Black Hills for macrofungi

Audrey Gabel and Kristie Martin

Identification and mitigation of climber impact on rare plants, Custer State Park

Hollis Marriott

Survey of Black Hills montane grasslands

Hollis Marriott

Grantee

Use of shelterbelt woodlands by neotropical migrant birds in the Northern Great Plains

David Swanson

Inventory of birds, reptiles and amphibians on TNC preserves and easements in the southern Black Hills

Thomas and Nancy Hays

Ecological evaluation of stream resources in Deuel County

Ramona Lundberg

Monitoring plan development and implementation for selected sensitive species along Cascade Creek

Beth Burkhart and Elaine Ebbert

Biological inventory at Spirit Mound Historic Prairie

Karen Olmstead

Wall Lake wildlife habitat improvement

John Monahan

Developing adaptive management methods and assessing the status of species of concern in the Leola Hills landscape of the Missouri Coteau

Mary Miller

Grantee

Bird populations of shelterbelt habitats in Lake County, SD

Dale Droge and Jeffry Palmer

Calling surveys for flammulated owls and northern saw-whet owls in the central and southern Black Hills

Nancy Hays

Breeding birds of the restricted pine-juniper shrub habitat in southwestern SD

David Swanson

Natural history and abundance of whip-poor-wills and insectivorous bats in southeastern SD

C. Loren Buck

Summer 2001 survey of the status of the American dipper on its historic range in the Black Hills, SD

Rosemary Draeger and Linda Johnson

Natural history of whip-poor-wills and the importance of riparian habitat for insectivorous bats in southeast SD

Jeffrey Lane, R. Mark Brigham, C. Loren Buck and Michael Swystun

Relative nesting success of neotropical woodland migrants in natural riparian woodlands and farmstead woodlots in southeastern SD

David Swanson

Breeding birds of Newton Hills

Rosemary Draeger and Linda Johnson

Burrowing owl occurrence and abundance on prairie dog colonies in Buffalo Gap National Grassland

Travis Livieri

Surveys of woodpecker abundance and reproduction in response to the Jasper fire

Kerri Vierling

Surveys for rare owl species in the Black Hills

Bill Given

Sica Hollow State Park breeding bird survey

Rosemary Draeger

Big Sioux River Bald Eagle nesting analysis

Robert Schenck

Development of DNA fingerprinting markers for the American dipper

Cynthia Anderson

Breeding bird survey of Oak Ridge GPA and Wilson Savanna

Rosemary Draeger

Section-based monitoring of breeding birds on Grand River National Grassland

David Hanni

Survey for long-billed curlews on the Buffalo Gap National Grassland, SD

Travis Livieri

Association of black-backed woodpeckers with mountain pine beetle infestations

Joshua Millspaugh

Sprague's pipits and Baird's sparrows on the Grand River National Grassland

Maiken Winter

Survey of black-tailed prairie dog colonies on Grand River National Grassland for burrowing owls

Craig Knowles

Foraging behavior of ospreys in the Black Hills

Jennifer Fowler

Efficacy of using radio monitored prey in locating active goshawk nests

Chad Cyrus

Lake Oahe nesting gull and tern survey

Ricky Olson

Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve breeding bird survey

Rosemary Draeger and Linda Johnson

Effects of landscape and stand-level factors on forest songbird populations and diversity

Adam Benson

Grantee

Distribution of the sturgeon chub in SD

George Cunningham and Susanne Hickey

Lake chub survey

Ricky Olson

Rare fish surveys in selected streams of eastern SD

George Cunningham

Survey for southern redbelly dace in eastern SD

Steve Wall

Finescale dace and lake chub survey

Ricky Olson

Grantee

Bat surveys and habitat use in western SD

Joel Tigner

Faunal survey of the bats at the Oak Lake Research Station

Scott Pedersen

A survey for the southern bog lemming in Tripp County, SD

Ricky Olson

Distribution and roost site selection of bats in eastern SD

Vicki Swier

Bat habitat in the Black Hills - Protection of abandoned mines

Joel Tigner

Distribution and habitat associations of flying squirrels in the northern Black Hills

Elizabeth Krueger

Black-footed ferret resource selection

Joshua Millspaugh

Investigating possible hibernacula for the bat population of the Missouri River in SD

Vicki Swier

Plague prevalence in Lower Brule Indian Reservation black-tailed prairie dog colonies

Hugh Britten

Grantee

A preliminary amphibian and reptile survey of the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation, Todd County, SD

Julie and Jody Hibma

Calling survey for the Blanchard's cricket frog in Tripp County, SD

Ricky Olson

Cricket frog survey in Union County, SD

Ron Wilmot, Mike Baker, Theresa Horton and Kim Meerdink

Blanding's turtle and herp survey in northeastern SD

Tom Jessen

Herp. surveys of several state areas in southeast SD with an emphasis on the lined snake

Dan Fogell

Surveys for sagebrush lizard in the Black Hills

Brian Smith

A general survey for the herpetofauna of the Big Sioux River Valley and southeast SD

Tom Jessen

Surveys of the horned lizard at historical locations in SD

Brian Smith and Hugh Quinn

Hibernacula microclimates and overwintering survival of Blanchard's cricket frog in SD

David Swanson