Guadalupe Mountains National Park

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Address:400 Pine Canyon Rd
Salt Flat, TX 79847
Phone:915-828-3251
Fax:915-828-3269
Web: www.nps.gov/gumo/
Size: 86,416 acres.
Established: Authorized on October 15, 1966; established on September 30, 1972. Wilderness designated on November 10, 1978.
Location:In west Texas on US 62/180, 110 miles east of El Paso and 55 miles southwest of Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Facilities:Campground (é), picnic area, rest rooms (é), off-road vehicle trail, visitor center, museum, trails (80+ miles).
Activities:Camping, hiking, horseback riding, bird-watching, wildlife viewing, stargazing.
Special Features:Rising from the Chihuahuan Desert, this mountain mass contains portions of the world's most extensive and significant Permian limestone fossil reef. Also featured are a tremendous earth fault, lofty peaks, unusual flora and fauna, and a colorful record of the past.

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Pages 239-258 in Biological investigations in the Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas (H.

Late Wisconsin mammalian fauna from Dust Cave, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Culberson County, Texas

Resource Management, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Salt Flat, TX 79847 (FA)

Cougars in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas: estimates of occurrence and distribution using analysis of DNA

We thank personnel at Guadalupe Mountains National Park and the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection at Texas Tech university for access to fossils from Dust Cave and personnel at the united States Army Air Defense Artillery Center and Fort Bliss for access to material from Pendejo Cave.

Yellow-nosed cotton rat (Sigmodon ochrognathus), a long-time inhabitant of Trans-Pecos Texas and New Mexico

RESULTS--During 17-22 May 2007, we dedicated >152 person-hours to surveying 132 ha of potential habitat of red squirrels within mixed-coniferous forests in Guadalupe Mountains National Park. Of the 973 ha of Douglas-fir forest near The Bowl, nearly 80% (775 ha) was burned in the 1990s.

Status of red squirrels in Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas

Repositories that were searched for pertinent documents included the libraries at The University of Texas at Austin and at San Antonio, military archives at Fort Bliss, El Paso, and Fort Hood, Killeen, and historical archives at Guadalupe Mountains National Park and Fort Davis National Historic Site.

Rio Grande cutthroat trout in Texas

Trees and shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains National parks. Big Bend Nat.

Historical biogeography of Sigmodon ochrognathus in Texas

Erosional impacts of trails in Guadalupe Mountains National Parks, Texas.

Trail degradation as influenced by environmental factors: a state-of-the-knowledge review

Trees & shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas including Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains national parks. Big Bend Natural History Association, Inc.

The hooded skunk (Mephitis macroura) from the Davis Mountains of West Texas: Natural history, morphology, molecular characteristics, and conservation status

(in litt.) estimated mortality at Carlsbad Caverns and Guadalupe Mountains national parks and reported that mortality was 33-50% for adults and 58-83% for juvenile-subadults.

Survival and mortality of cougars in the Trans-Pecos region