A Natural Areas Inventory of the - Kansas Natural Heritage Inventory ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List Of Figures ............................................................................................................................................................. iii
List Of Tables ................................................................................................................................................................ v
Acknowledgments ....................................................................................................................................................... vii
Abstract ...................................................................................................................................................................... viii
Chapter 1. Background ................................................................................................................................................. 1
1.2. DETAILED STUDY OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................................ 2
1.3. STUDY AREA ................................................................................................................................................. 4
1.4. LAND USE HISTORY AND VEGETATION ................................................................................................. 6
1.5. PROTECTED AND RARE SPECIES .............................................................................................................. 7
1.6. PREVIOUS STUDIES ..................................................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 2. Natural Communities ................................................................................................................................ 13
2.1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 13
2.2. METHODS ..................................................................................................................................................... 13
2.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................... 14
Forest Communities ........................................................................................................................................... 15
Herbaceous Communities .................................................................................................................................. 33
Sparse Vegetation Communities ........................................................................................................................ 37
Successional Areas ............................................................................................................................................. 38
2.4. SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................... 39
Chapter 3. Animals ..................................................................................................................................................... 44
3.1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 44
3.2. METHODS ..................................................................................................................................................... 46
3.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................... 48
Species Accounts–Federal-listed Species ........................................................................................................... 50
Species Accounts–State-listed Species ............................................................................................................... 55
Species Accounts–Kansas Species in Need of Conservation (SINC).................................................................. 58
Species Accounts–Former Federal Candidate Species ...................................................................................... 63
Species Accounts–Other Rare Species ............................................................................................................... 64
Faunistic Surveys ............................................................................................................................................... 65
3.4. SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................... 67
Chapter 4. Plants ......................................................................................................................................................... 77
4.1. INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................... 77
4.2. METHODS ..................................................................................................................................................... 78
4.3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ..................................................................................................................... 78
Floristic Surveys ................................................................................................................................................ 80
Federal-listed Species ........................................................................................................................................ 85
State-rare Species .............................................................................................................................................. 85
4.4. SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................... 92
Chapter 5. Management Recommendations .............................................................................................................. 110
5.1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 110
5.2. LANDSCAPE ISSUES AND FACTORS INFLUENCING THE BIODIVERSITY OF THE FT.
LEAVENWORTH MILITARY RESERVATION ............................................................................................... 110
NATURAL AREAS INVENTORY OF FT. LEAVENWORTH II i