ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



This project was funded by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality, Mine 

 Waste Cleanup Bureau, under DEQ Contract No. 480008 to the Montana Natural Heritage 

 Program, Natural Resources Information System, Montana State Library. Special thanks to Jack 

 Yates (DEQ) for his continued support of this work, to Lee Flath (Lewis and Clark Caverns State 

 Park) for his cooperation and interest in the project, and to Marian and Max Johnson of Ravalli 

 for permission to access the McDonald Mine. Tom O'Shea (USGS-Biological Resources 

 Division) kindly loaned the data loggers used during this project. Sam Martinez helped with the 

 surveys and recorded climate data during them. 



