9345

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9345
• Author: Woodbury, A., S. Flowers, D. W. Lindsay, S. D. Durrant, N. K. Dean, A. Grundmann, J. R. Crook, W. H. Behle, H. G. Higgins, G. R. Smith, G. G. Musser and D. B. McDonald
• Title: Ecological Studies of the Flora and Fauna in Glen Canyon
• USFW Year: 1959
• USFW - Doc Type: Anthropological Papers
• Copyright Material: NO

FOREWORD
Following in the wake of the water storage program provided by Congress
for the development of the Upper Colorado River Basin (Federal Public Law
485, 84th Congress, 2nd Session, 1956), a series of investigations was in-
itiated to obtain information of significance about the areas to be affected
by the proposed reservoirs. One phase of these investigations was the sal-
vage of archeological data in the Glen Canyon Reservoir basin before the area
is covered with water, Concomitant with this archeological salvage program,
a series of biological investigations was conducted in the same area, rem
sults of which are presented in this publication,
Of the archeological salvage program initiated by the National Park
Service, a part was undertaken by the University of Utah under an agreement
dated July 23, 1957, This University salvage program, of which Jesse D.
Jennings, head of the Department of Anthropology, is Director also includes
an historical study of the region and an ecological study of the biological
resources that may have been available to the aboriginal inhabitants of the
region prior to about A. D, 1300, In addition, an invited proposal was made
to the National. Park Service to undertake more extensive ecological studies
of the same region, The Bureau of Reclamation found a need to assess the
vegetation that would be lost in the reservoirs by inundation, The Utah
State Department of Fish and Game was interested in an aquatic survey of
the river.
The biological aspects of these investigations were undertaken by the
University of Utah Division of Biological Sciences, of which Don M. Rees
is head. The work was organized by Angus M. Woodbury with the assistance
of many members of the biological staff The work done under this program
has had the cordial support of the Department of Anthropology, the National
Park Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and the Utah Department of Fish and
Game. Two publications in this biological program have already appeared in
the University of Utah Anthrobological Papers. No, 31, "Preliminary Report
on Biological Resources of the Glen Canyon Reservoir", April, 1958, and
No, 36, "Survey of Vegetation in Glen Canyon Reservoir Basin", January, 1959,
The present publication is an aggregation of eight related papers which
portray the results of studies to date of the flora and fauna of Glen Can-
yon, They include an ecological analysis of the vegetation, treatments of
mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, a short list of endoparasites of
rodents, an ecological study of the Colorado River, and a treatment of in-
sects taken. Because these are elaborations of the proposed "Working Plan
for Ecological Studies" prepared in October, 1957, for the National Park
Service and because the plan explains the background for possible future
reports, it has been decided to incorporate a slightly revised form of the
plan in this publication,
Data upon which these papers are based have been obtained mainly in
the field, but they have been supplemented by data from the literature and
by the background experiences of the specialists preparing the papers.
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