Prairie Zephyr Newsletter

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The Prairie Zephyr is the Southern Plains Network's newsletter. It contains project and staff updates, feature and focus articles, and is a quick way to catch up on network news, findings, and insights.

April 2024

♦ Many Hands...Collaborations ♦ Meet our Scientists in Parks and Artist Partner ♦ Science Spotlight on Amphibian Species Lists across NPS ♦ SOPN is expanding with creation of new park: Amache National Historical Site ♦ Vital signs monitoring updates ♦ Reporting updates ♦ Science Spotlight on Managing for Radical Ecosystem Change


September 2023

♦ Meet Andy Ray, SOPN Program Manager ♦ Meet our Scientists in Parks ♦ Vital signs monitoring updates ♦ Reporting updates ♦ Science Spotlight: Robust projections and consequences of an expanding biomodal growing season in the western United States

September 2022 Special Issue

♦ Remembering Rob Bennetts: In Memorium ♦ Excerpts from Open letter to the world and snapshot of my life by Rob Bennetts

September 2021

♦ More changes on the wind ♦ Southwest Network Collaboration news ♦ Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland Visits Pecos NHP ♦ NPS geodiversity atlas pages for SOPN parksBird checklists for SOPN parks ♦ SOPN monitoring news ♦ SOPN staff and office updates

Winter 2017

♦ Network news and staff updates ♦ Cultural landscape inventories in SOPN parks ♦ SOPN publishes prairie restoration report ♦ Summer 2017 monitoring resultsImpact of exotic plants on native bees ♦ Park spotlight: Sand Creek Massacre NHS ♦ Invading the plains: prickly lettuce

Fall 2014

Protecting pollinators in Southern Plains parks ♦ Around the network: Natural Resouce Condition Assessments ♦ Field monitoring updates

Winter 2013

Monitoring and project updates ♦ Drought and exotics: A cautionary tale ♦ Collaboration and communication

Spring/Summer 2012

♦ Network update - moving to Natural Resources Stewardship and Science ♦ Monitoring updates for exotic plants, grasslands and fire effects and landbirds ♦ Natural Resource Condition Assessments are underway ♦ Short videos emphasize connection between natural and cultural resources

Last updated: June 6, 2024