By Kasey Rahn Boone and Crockett Club University Programs Fellow Holli Holmes develops a new harlequin duck survey method. When you picture waterfowl, whitewater isn’t often the first thing that comes to mind. But for biologists studying harlequin ducks, rapids are a rite of passage—and a challenge...
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By Kasey Rahn Boone and Crockett University Programs Fellow Marco Salvo uses machine learning to help prevent bird-aircraft collisions Collisions between avians and aircraft, called bird strikes, are costly, kill birds, and are dangerous to people. Costs related to strikes are in the billions ,...
University of Montana – Ph.D. Student in Fish and Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2022 - Identifying the Effects of Oil and Gas Development and Activity on Movement, Resource Selection, and Demographic Processes of Elk in the Badlands of Western North Dakota
Ph.D. - Graduated 2004 - University of Montana Dr. Mark Steinbach completed his doctoral degree under the mentorship of Dr. Jack Ward Thomas, where he evaluated the consequences of public land grazing permit buyout programs, permit reductions, and increased fees on land ownership and open space in...
University of Montana - Masters - Projected to Graduate 2022 | M.S. in Wildlife Biology & Master of Public Administration
Using Trail Cameras to Survey Moose Abundance and Calf Recruitment on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation and Glacier National Park in Montana By Landon Magee, Boone and Crockett Fellow, University of Montana Printed in Winter 2023 Fair Chase Magazine A lone cow moose within the study area on the...
University of Montana – Ph.D. Student in Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2022 - Rethinking Rare: Novel Approaches to Monitoring and Understanding Rare Species
University of Montana – M.S. Student in Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2024 - Analyzing Moose Abundance and Calf Recruitment on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation
By Kasey Rahn Printed in Winter 2024 Fair Chase Magazine Boone and Crockett Fellow Molly McDevitt's Innovative Approach Sheds New Light on an Iconic Western Species The temperature hovers just above freezing in remote Alaska. Two University of Montana wildlife biology graduate students trek toward...
University of Montana - Masters - Projected to Graduate 2022 | Master of Public Administration, Public Policy Certificate
Coming in at a weighty 143 pages, Montana’s 2022 book of deer, elk and antelope hunting regulations is an impressive tome listing license costs, permit drawing stats, season start dates, tag requirements and the ominous penalties for breaking any of its stated rules.
University of Montana - Ph.D. - 2021 | Conservation Benefits of Sustainable Land Use on Mammal Communities
University of Montana - Masters - Graduated 2010 | Evaluating population estimates of mountain goats based on citizen science
University of Montana – Ph.D. in Forestry – 1999 – Field Testing the Accuracy and Generality of Selected Wildlife-Habitat Models
University of Montana – Ph.D. in Organismal Biology and Ecology – 2002 - Effects of Pinus Flexilis on the Dynamics and Structure of Plant Communities on The Northern Rocky Mountain Front and Training Biologists for Emerging Niches in Non-Traditional Jobs
UC – Berkeley (University of Montana Fellow) – Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science – 1997 - Wildlife Conservation on Western Private Lands: Improving Conservation Policies and Incentives
University of Montana - Masters - Graduated 2011 | Winter habitat use by mule deer in Idaho and Montana
University of Montana – Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Estimating Abundance of Big Game Species in Northern Nevada
University of Montana – Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Evaluation of Survey Approaches to Assess Status of Non-Game Indicator Species
University of Montana – M.S. Student in Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2023 - Impacts of Inter-Individual Variation in White-Tailed Deer Spatial Ecology and Survival
University of Montana – Ph.D. Student in Fish and Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2023 - Exploring Landscape and Environmental Drivers of Pronghorn Movement and Demography Across Spatiotemporal Scalesn
University of Montana - M.S. Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2023 | In the Pursuit of Greener Pastures: How Changes in Vegetation Influence Diet and Resource Selection of Pronghorn in Montana
University of Montana - M.S. Student in Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2022 | Management Authority on Federal Lands and Effective Collaboration on Habitat Connectivity
University of Montana - Ph.D. Student in Wildlife Biology - Projected to Graduate 2024 | Modeling Migration and Habitat Use of Elk on the Blackfeet Nation Indian Reservation (Montana, USA) and the Surrounding Landscape
University of Montana - PhD - Projected to Graduate 2021 | Integrated ecology of a reintroduction: Missouri elk restoration/ ecology and management of the restored elk population in Missouri
University of Montana - Masters - 2010 | Summer diet of wolves in Northwestern Montana
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