Fort Laramie National Historic Site

Andrew Sheridan Burt

Elizabeth Burt

Henry Evelith Maynadier

Oliver Nixon Unthank

Spotted Tail

Fort Laramie National Historic Site contains riparian forest along the North Platte and Laramie rivers that provide good roosting and foraging habitat for bats. The Fort grounds also attract bat species that roost in structures. The Northern Great Plains Inventory & Monitoring Network monitors bats using acoustic recorders to detect long-term trends in bat populations at the park.

Across six Northern Great Plains parks, education and outreach for bats was conducted.

Bats are amazing animals and a formidable force against insect pests, but a nasty fungal disease is killing them. A coordinated national response brings hope.

How does Fort Laramie historians find information when the written record is not sufficient?

From 1849 to 1890, Fort Laramie served as the base of operations for major military campaigns on the northern Plains and significant councils with many of the major mountain and plains tribes. The fort embraces the entire spectrum of westward expansion from the hey-day of mountain men, the long period of the overland migrations, major treaty councils with indigenous tribes and the conflicts that followed, to the arrival of cattlemen and homesteaders.

Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 (Horse Creek Treaty)

Grand Teton National Park Fire Management Program Transfers Fire Engines to Rural Wyoming Fire Districts

Laundresses help provide support to the soldiers at Fort Laramie and played an important role in the professionalization of the Army.