Mountain Lions of the Black Hills

144 Index

Schuler, K. L., 93
Schwartz, Michael, 103
ser viceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia), 18
Sheridan Lake, 127
Sioux Nation, 15 – 16 , 17
Smith, J. B., 95
snowberry (Symphoricarpus albus), 18
South Dakota Department of Game, Fish and
Parks, 15 , 69 , 80 , 89 – 90 , 93 , 125 , 128 , 129 – 30 ,
131 ; administration of national parks by, 27 – 28 ;
and mountain lion ge ne tics, 103 , 110 ; and moun-
tain lion harvesting, 11 , 90 , 125 ; and mountain
lion population estimates, 9 , 45 – 46 , 50 ; and
mountain lion sightings, 7 , 50
Spring Creek, 16 , 21 , 46
Strickland, M. D., 7
Sweitzer, R. A., 87

Taenia omissa, 69 , 70 , 76
Thompson, Dan, 64 , 70
total kidney fat index (TKFI), 83 – 86 , 87
toxoplasma, 74 – 75
Treaty of 1851, 15
turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo), 49

University of Wyoming, 46 , 102 – 3

USA Today, 70 – 71

USDA Forest Ser vice Ge ne tics Laboratory, 103 ,

110

vetchlings (Lathyrus ochroleucus), 19

Waite, Blair, 46

Wells, Dorothy (Fecske), 8 , 12 , 23 – 24 , 31 , 46 , 64 ,

103 , 121

western yarrow (Achillea millefolium), 19

white spruce (Picea glauca), 3 , 17 , 25 , 92

white- tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), 19 , 62 ;

and chronic wasting disease, 69 , 92 – 93 ; habitat

of, 92 ; migratory, 20 , 21 ; mortality of, 91 , 129 ;

as mountain lion prey, 21 , 90 , 92 , 93 , 95 , 136 ;

population of, in Black Hills, 19 , 96 – 97

Wildlife Federation Brookings Chapter, 119

Wind Cave National Park, 21 , 27 , 48 , 93 , 96 ,

97

wolves, gray, 21 , 79

yellow- bellied marmots (Marmota flaviventris),

19 , 92

Yellowstone River, 57 – 58

Zimmerman Frink, Teresa, 69