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A unique value of our Program is the capability to address specific, short-term needs of our cooperators while conducting long-term fish and wildlife research. Our researchers rely on graduate students to address the applied management questions of cooperators, while allowing USGS researchers to investigate complex, longer-term questions. We can address applied or basic research topics.

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Modeling and Population Monitoring

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Grasslands

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Art and Science

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Disease

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Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Tribes

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Education

Ticks Harbor and Excrete Chronic Wasting Disease Prions by Heather Inzalaco

Heather Inzalaco, Best Student Poster, The Wildlife Society (2023). Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was discovered in Wisconsin white-tailed deer harvested in fall 2001 and CWD prevalence has increased in all sex and age classes and increased in spatial extent ever since.

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Ticks Harbor and Excrete Chronic Wasting Disease Prions by Heather Inzalaco

Heather Inzalaco, Best Student Poster, The Wildlife Society (2023). Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was discovered in Wisconsin white-tailed deer harvested in fall 2001 and CWD prevalence has increased in all sex and age classes and increased in spatial extent ever since.

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Grizzly Bears: Predicated Space Use & Connectivity Pathways Poster by Sarah Sells, University of Washington

Grizzly bear were nearly extirpated in the U.S. in recent centuries. Today, 4 populations are recovering in the U.S. Northern Rockies. Population connectivity is a conservation goal, as is reestablishing a population in the Bitterroot Ecosystem (Central Idaho and Western Montana).   

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Grizzly Bears: Predicated Space Use & Connectivity Pathways Poster by Sarah Sells, University of Washington

Grizzly bear were nearly extirpated in the U.S. in recent centuries. Today, 4 populations are recovering in the U.S. Northern Rockies. Population connectivity is a conservation goal, as is reestablishing a population in the Bitterroot Ecosystem (Central Idaho and Western Montana).   

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When the Canary Leaves the Coal Mine by Nicole Doran, University of Washington

I am the grandchild of West Virginian coal miners. I am the descendent of generations that toiled underground extracting black coal from a broken Earth in exchange for company scrip and death from blackened lungs. This extractive cycle was broken when my great-grandparents turned their backs on the coal dust hollows of Appalachia and relocated to northeast Ohio.

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When the Canary Leaves the Coal Mine by Nicole Doran, University of Washington

I am the grandchild of West Virginian coal miners. I am the descendent of generations that toiled underground extracting black coal from a broken Earth in exchange for company scrip and death from blackened lungs. This extractive cycle was broken when my great-grandparents turned their backs on the coal dust hollows of Appalachia and relocated to northeast Ohio.

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