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    Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota
    Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota
    Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota
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    Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota

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      Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota - Kenneth W. Andersen

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      Title: Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota

      Author: Kenneth W. Andersen

      Release Date: September 7, 2010 [EBook #33659]

      Language: English

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      University of Kansas Publications

      Museum of Natural History

      Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 361-393, 8 figs.

      January 18, 1971

      Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota

      KENNETH W. ANDERSEN and J. KNOX JONES, JR.

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence

      1971

      University of Kansas Publications, Museum of Natural History

      Editors of this number:

      Frank B. Cross, Philip S. Humphrey, William E. Duellman

      Volume 19, No. 5, pp. 361-393, 8 figs.

      Published January 18, 1971

      University of Kansas

      Lawrence, Kansas

      PRINTED BY

      THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS PRINTING SERVICE

      LAWRENCE, KANSAS

      1971

      Mammals of Northwestern South Dakota

      BY

      KENNETH W. ANDERSEN and J. KNOX JONES, JR.

      The mammalian fauna of the western Dakotas and adjacent Montana is relatively poorly known. Few published reports have dealt with mammals from this part of the Northern Great Plains, and none of these involved detailed study of a restricted area. The present report summarizes information gathered in Harding County, northwestern South Dakota, and includes material on the more than 50 species of mammals that are known to occur there.

      Harding County has an area of approximately 2700 square miles (Fig. 1). The county first was organized in 1881, but the present boundaries were not fixed until 1908. Physiographically, it lies in that part of the Missouri Plateau frequently termed the Cretaceous Table Lands. The general topography is one of rolling hills and flats—mostly range land vegetated by short grasses and sage—broken by spectacular buttes and hills that rise 400 to 600 or more feet above the surrounding plains. These monadnocks are ... part of a system of Tertiary erosional remnants standing above the Late Cretaceous rocks of northwestern South Dakota..., according to Lillegraven (1970:832), who went on to point out: The butte tops are flat and grass-covered. The western sides are being actively cut away by slumping, and the topography below the western cliff walls is hummocky with sparse vegetation. The eastern flanks of the tables are, by contrast, less cliff-forming and less slumped and are generally well forested with coniferous and deciduous trees. Slim Buttes, the North and South Cave Hills, the East and West Short Pine Hills, and the Long Pine Hills, which barely enter the county north of Camp Crook, comprise the pine-clad buttes; other prominences, such as Table Mountain and Sheep Buttes, are all but nude of coniferous cover. The highest point in the county, Harding Peak, is 4019 feet above sea level.

      Sediments underlying northwestern South Dakota include rocks assignable to the Pierre (shale), Fox Hills (sand), and Hell Creek formations of Cretaceous age and the Ludlow and Tongue River formations of the Paleocene. These rocks may be exposed at the surface, but usually are overlain by relatively thin soils that are mostly derived from them; the best soil in the county for agricultural purposes is the loessal sandy or silty loam in the northeastern quarter, which is derived from Tongue River sediments (Baker, 1952).

      Fig. 1. Map of Harding County, South Dakota, showing location of places named in text.

      The climate of northwestern South Dakota is characteristic of the northern part of the interior grasslands of North America—that is, the winters are cold and the summers hot and dry. Weather data for the period 1896-1967 at Camp Crook are representative of those gathered at the several stations maintained in the county. At Camp Crook the mean temperature for January is 17.3 F, whereas that for July is 71.2 F; precipitation averages 13.17 inches annually, most falling in the months of April through September; snowfall amounts to an average of 33.2 inches per year and is recorded from every month from September through May (Climatogeography of the United States, no. 20-39, Camp Crook, South Dakota, 1969).

      Major surface drainage systems in Harding County include the Little Missouri River, which flows northward through most of the western part of the county, the South Fork of the Grand River, which originates in the east-central part of the county and flows generally eastward, and by the North Fork of the Moreau River, which originates in the south and drains in a southeasterly direction. Permanent standing surface water was virtually unknown prior to the development of artificial

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