Organizations

Organization Name: Gravel Bar
Mailing Address:
64 Burris-Lenore Rd.
Crowheart, WY, 82512 		Physical Address:
64 Burris-Lenore Rd.
Crowheart, WY, 82512
Phone: 307.486.2304
Fax: 307.486.2304
Email: Website: gravelbar.org
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Year Founded: 2006 Organization Type: Non-profit, 501(c)3 pending
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Percentage of Work in Greater Yellowstone Region: 100%
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Head of Organization:
Robert Hoskins
Director
 Primary Contact:
Robert Hoskins
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Seasonal Employees: N/A
Volunteers: 1
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Emeritus Board: N/A
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Board of Advisors: N/A
Mission Statement:
Our mission is to systematically, rigorously, and comprehensively survey, assess, understand, and tell the story of the Yellowstone Country and its many life forms throughout the year. We will apply the techniques of traditional field reconnaissance and natural history, cultural narrative (spoken and written), and 21st century integrated media to accomplish this mission.
Geographic Focus:
Regional (Greater Yellowstone)
Primary Tools & Activities:
Education, Outreach, Scientific Research, Historical Research
Areas of Focus:
Agriculture, Aquatics & Fisheries, Art & Music, Fire, Forestry, GIS & Mapping, Grazing, Growth & Development, History & Heritage, Hunting & Fishing, Land Use Planning, Outfitting, Public Lands, Restoration, Resource Management, Rivers & Wetlands, Wildlife
Primary Projects:
Gravel Bar's primary project is to construct a bioregional map of the Yellowstone Country that links ecological information and information about human land use events to specific terrain & geography. Other projects include developing a comprehensive photographic record of the watersheds in the ecosystem, documenting large mammal migration corridors, surveying & assessing moose habitat, and writing a history of wildlife and human land use.
Partner Organizations:
N/A
Recent Publications:
see www.gravelbar.org
Additional Notes:
GravelBar seeks to develop community ecological knowledge (citizen science) that can inform, and be informed by, scientific and historical research into the natural history and human land use of the Yellowstone Country, a bioregion of the central Rocky Mountains of North America. As conflict and controversy over conservation and land use issues increase, people who live in this region actually know less about the issues, partly because they don't have the time go onto the land to study land, wildlife, and the impacts of human land use, partly because they don't have the education or training to understand the complex ecological, scientific, social, and policy aspects of the issues, and partly because information about the issues is often used as a political weapon to support specific points of view or policies on land use. Much information published about these issues is incorrect and unrepresentative of the whole. Therefore, it is difficult for the public to assess what's true, relevant, and practical about the reams of information available. At its most basic, GravelBar serves as an honest information source about the issues for the communities of the Yellowstone Country. Our efforts are directed toward getting people, ourselves and others, directly onto the land to survey and assess the state or health of the land and its wildlife. We devote considerable time in the field to accomplish this reconnaissance operation. Out of the field, we will collect and analyze information from a variety of sources, including the information we ourselves and others collect on the land itself, assess that information, and report our findings to the community for discussion and debate. This is really an "intelligence" operation.