Current Issue, Volume 40, Issue 1, 2024

National Park Service Paleontology

Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents

Cover, Masthead, and Table of Contents, PSF Vol. 40 No. 1
PSF Editorial Team, The

Points of View

From Yosemite to Presidio: Everyone Welcomed
Diamant, Rolf

Keeping Snow and Ice Frozen with Renewable Energy Solutions to Halt Climate Change
Gonzalez, Patrick

Origins and Innovations of Science in the US National Parks: The 2023 Leopold Lecture at the University of California, Berkeley
PSF Editorial Team, The

Featured Theme Articles

The National Park System fossil record: Uncovering significant new paleontological discoveries through inventory, monitoring, research and museum curation
Santucci, Vincent L.; Tweet, Justin S.; Visaggi, Christy; Hodnett, John-Paul M.

Ancient bat remains illustrate the role of caves as habitat anchors in the temporally dynamic landscape of the Grand Canyon
Chambers, Carol L.; Thomas, Shawn; Santucci, Vincent L.; Oswald, Hattie; Ballensky, Jason

Sharks in the dark: Paleontological resource inventory reveals multiple successive Mississippian Subperiod cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) assemblages within Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
Hodnett, John-Paul M.; Toomey, Rickard; Olson, Rickard; Tolleson, Kelli; Boldon, Richard; Wood, Jack et al.

Incredible discoveries and devastation of paleontological resources in a changing world preserved at White Sands National Park
Bustos, David; Santucci, Vincent L.; Odess, Daniel; Martinez, Patrick J.; Connelly, Clare J.

Past, present, and future: A synthesis of paleontological resource monitoring and management at Badlands National Park
Thompson, Wayne A.; Starck, Ellen N.

Checking in on fossil sites: Advancing monitoring protocols and techniques for paleontological localities in National Park Service units
Bonde, Aubrey M.; Santucci, Vincent L.; Nyborg, Torrey

How protecting shark teeth can lead to finding dolphins: George Washington Birthplace National Monument as a case study in developing and implementing paleontological resource monitoring
Tweet, Justin S.; Santucci, Vincent L.

Research put into action: How a fossil inventory informed paleontological resource monitoring efforts preceding road construction at Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Salcido, Charles; Tweet, Justin S.; Santucci, Vincent L.

The dinosaur-bearing rocks of Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve: A fossil resource of global interest
Fiorillo, Anthony R.; Hamon, Troy

Microtomography of an enigmatic fossil egg clutch from the Oligocene John Day Formation, Oregon, USA, reveals an exquisitely preserved 29-million-year-old fossil grasshopper ootheca
Lee, Jaemin; Famoso, Nicholas A.; Lin, Angela

Fossil woods of Yellowstone National Park
Wheeler, Elisabeth A.

New perspectives on NPS paleontological resource stewardship: Scientific, curatorial, and educational outcomes at Petrified Forest National Park
Parker, William G.; Marsh, Adam D.; Smith, Matthew E.; Kligman, Ben T.; Wagner, Deborah E.; Varela, Phillip et al.

Breaking out of the fishbowl: Integrating paleontological resource management and public engagement while inspiring stewardship through an open-door fossil preparation lab at Badlands National Park
Welsh, Ed; Carpenter, Mary; Starck, Ellen N.

Updating conservation techniques for paleontology collections associated with Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
O'Connor, Conni J.; Burr, Elizabeth; Cooper, Catherine; Meyer, Herbert W.

Discovery, preservation, and protection of notable paleontological resources from Dinosaur National Monument, Utah and Colorado
Hunt-Foster, ReBecca

Interdisciplinary approaches to reconciling legacy paleontological collections to advance discovery and improve resource management
Parry, Lauren E.; Eichenberg, Erin E.

The price of neglect: Revisiting Fossil Cycad National Monument (1922–1957)
Santucci, Vincent L.; Tweet, Justin S.; Connors, Tim

Advances in Research and Management (Peer-Reviewed)

Health challenges of rangers—a planetary health workforce
Rerolle, Francois; Singh, Rohit; Mascari, Thomas; Aisha, Hamera; Avino, Felipe Spina; Gajardo, Osvaldo Barassi et al.

No longer news that’s fit to print? Climate change goes missing from national park newspapers
Lull, Robert B.; Wise, Wesley

The Photographer's Frame

Find Hope with Climate Crisis Triage
Davis, Gary E.; Davis, Dorothy A.

Verse in Place

Almost Human
Markus, Peter