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Mesopredators play important ecological roles in most systems. This group of wildlife is often well-adapted to human development and their densities can vary according to the human-subsidized resources with trickle down effects on other animals.

Trail cam photo of a squirrel. USGS researchers at the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are leading efforts to monitor how wildlife responds to features in residential yards.

Little is understood about the behavior, location, and habitat preferences of juvenile Gulf sturgeon. To learn more about this prehistoric fish, the Florida Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Florida, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S.

Holding a Northern Pike captured from an Arizona Lake is Dr. Yuliya Kuzmenko.  She and Dr. Timofy Specivy, both scientists from the Ukraine, were hired by the Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit to work on a collaborative project with the Arizona Game and Fish Department to remove nuisance pike populations from select Arizona lakes.

Arizona Coop Unit Graduate Student Kaitlyn Gahl (sitting) and University of Arizona Undergraduate student Elizabeth EbadiRad implant transmitter into Smallmouth Bass-Redeye Bass hybrid to identify habitat use and movement patterns of select fish in an Arizona canyon.

Trail cam image of a bobcat. USGS researchers at the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit are leading efforts to monitor how wildlife responds to features in residential yards.

Reducing uncertainties in Eastern black rail conservation. Qualitative value of information to identify field experiments in a resilience-experimentalist adaptive management framework.

Thomas J. Kwak passed away on November 19, 2021 ​​due to a non-COVID related cardio-pulmonary event while visiting his hometown of Momence, IL. Tom was the Unit Leader at the North Carolina Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at NC State (he joined the faculty at NC State in 1999).

Phoenix Aguilar McFarlane is a sophomore majoring in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho College of Natural Resources at the USGS Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Program. She came to the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program (DDCSP) with a can-do attitude and a passion for volunteering in community service and sustainability projects.

Graduate students at the Arizona Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit calibrate gear and test new fish sampling techniques (hydroacoustics, electrofishing boat operation) in Western canyon-bound reservoirs in Arizona.  The research compares Arizona Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) sampling protocols with American Fisheries Society (AFS) standar

Field crew in the Adirondacks of New York using detection dogs to find moose scats for a capture-recapture study to estimate moose density. 

In cooperation with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) the Idaho Unit recently completed a series of research projects to better understand the effects of catch-and-release angling on survival and reproductive success of native trout and steelhead. 

Lara became interested in monitoring rare species as she researched Acadia’s bat community using acoustics and radio-telemetry. Her interests in rare species monitoring and geographic information systems led her to return to the University of Maine to pursue her Master’s degree.

Dan is from Michigan originally and received his BS from Michigan State University, MS from Eastern Michigan University and PhD from University of Pittsburgh. Dan joined the Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit in 2000, where he is the Assistant Unit Leader and Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Caleb Roberts uses a variety of spatial analyses, data integration approaches, multivariate statistics, nonlinear modeling, and both Bayesian and frequentist statistical approaches. Caleb teaches two courses—Invasion Ecology and Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment. Dr.

Kearstin Findley photographs a rosyside dace to quantify morphological differences among populations

Emma has collaborated with multiple agencies and stakeholders to capture and translocate 30 beavers that would otherwise have been euthanized. Emma is pleased that she, along with the beavers, is assisting in conservation and restoration efforts in a sensitive arid system.

Josh’s passion for wildlife and photography have blended well, as his photographs have been published in various outlets and displayed at several galleries. Notably, one of his photographs was selected by a National Geographic editor as a “Top Photo” during the 2017 nature photographer of the year competition.

Graduate students track the movement of juvenile Gulf sturgeon with acoustic telemetry in the Choctawhatchee River Basin, Florida.

The Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is assessing the efficacy of translocating beavers to desert restoration sites. Beavers are ecosystem engineers, can serve as a cost-effective, natural alternative to human restoration efforts, and are especially important to arid western ecosystems.

Emma Doden, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit graduate, assessed the efficacy of translocating beavers to desert restoration sites. Beavers are ecosystem engineers, can serve as a cost-effective, natural alternative to human restoration efforts, and are especially important to arid western ecosystems.