Resource Management

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Resource Management in the National Park Service's program to protect and preserve our parks and monuments.  It is a collaboration with the Bureau of Land Management to protect the indigenous wildlife and flora.  I found myself learning a lot about the destructive power of invasive weeds and an appreciation for the effort it takes to keep them in check.  There are on-going studies to protect the native wildlife like collaring and tracking elk and monitoring the movement of pygmy rabbits in a controlled burn area.   Twice I was fortunate to go with the Paleo-geologist interns to dig and documents locations of fossil mammal bones in the Wasatch Deposits.  I feel I have only scratched the surface of Resource Management and have a lot to learn.

Looking for collared elk		Looking for collared elk
Looking for Mammal Fossils in Wasatch deposits		Looking for Mammal Fossils in Wasatch deposits		Fossil Bone
Whacking at invasive weeds		Great exercise		A major invasive weed Yellow sweet clover - bad news
A major invasive weed Black Henbane - more bad news