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.
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.
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).
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.