Trees
Natural Resources on the
Pine Ridge Reservation
(Plants/Animals of the SD Prairie)
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Oglala Lakota College
Leslie Rae Henry, Ag Instructor
Agriculture & Natural Resource Dept.
Kyle, SD 57752
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lhenry@olc.edu
Departmental Office Phone # 455455-6065
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What are Natural Resources?
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Humans
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Mother Earth
Air
Animals
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Sun
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Buffalo Berry
Currents
Roses
Chokecherry
Plums
Snowberry
June berry
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Green Ash
Cottonwood
BoxBox-elder
Willow
Hackberry
Elm (Red, American, &
Siberian)
Hawthorn
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Mulberry
Sagebrush
Sandbar willow
SkunkSkunk-bush
Serviceberry
True mountainmountainmahogany
Broom snakeweed
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Forbs
Trees
Shrubs
Forbs
Grasses
Sedges (grasslike) &
Succulents
Fungi, Mosses &
Lichens, etc.
Microbes
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Plants of the Pine Ridge
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Plants
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Deciduous
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Shrubs
Water
Soil
Ponderosa Pine
Rocky Mountain
Juniper
Eastern Red Ceder
Western Red Ceder
Colorado Blue Spruce
Firs
Lodgepole Pine
Useful wild forbs:
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Prairie turnip (tinpsila)
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Yucca
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Wild mints
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Bush morningmorning-glory
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Nettles
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Dandelion
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Ground cherry
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Weeds:
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Field Bindweed (N)
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Canada thistle (N)
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Puncture vine (N(N-L)
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Russian knapweed (N)
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Common burdock
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Cocklebur
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Buffalo bur
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Mother Earths Resources
(Nonliving western culture)
Grasses
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Cool Season
Cheat grass
Brome grass
Crested wheatgrass
Western wheatgrass
Wild oat
Prairie junegrass
Six week fescue
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Warm Season
Buffalograss
Little blue stem
Big blue stem
Indian grass
GramaGrama-grasses
Soil (Land resources)
Water
Air
Rocks & Minerals
Sideoats
Blue grama
Red threeawn
Prairie cordgrass
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Grass like Plants & Succulents
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Grass like
Green bulrush
(Scirpus)
Hard roundstem
bulrush (Scirpus)
Nutgrass (Cyperus)
Bottlerush sedge
(Carex)
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Large Animals
Bison
Elk
Deer
Antelope
Mountain Lion
Cattle
Horse
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24.53%
26.24%
42.62%
6.61%
On the Pine Ridge Reservation ~51% of the
population is younger than age 20.
David P. Olson (CDC/SDSU) 75% dependent
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Small Animals
Coyotes
Raccoons & skunks
Cotton tails & Jack rabbits
Prairie dogs
Porcupines
Game & Song birds
Snakes, Amphibians &
Insects
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Youth (Birth – 9)
Pre Adults (10(10-19)
Adults (20(20-59)
Elderly (> 59)
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Animals
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Humans
Succulents & others
Prickly pear cactus
Round cactus
Fungi
Puff balls
Tree or ear mushroom
Morels
Other mushrooms
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Ms. Leslie Rae Henry @ lhenry@olc.edu
Ms. Julie Goings @ jgiongs@olc.edu
Ms. Theresa Lone Hill @ tloneh@olc.edu
Mr. Benny Rosales @ brosales@olc.edu
Or
605605-455455-6085 (office phone)
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