Oklahoma State University Extension specialists and members of the Disaster Assistance Response Team have gathered data over the past month to grasp the impact of 16 fires that burned within three days in Oklahoma and Texas panhandles in late February.
OSU's Department of Natural Resource Ecology & Management has partnered with Feather Friendly, a company that designs collision deterrent window markers, in one of the largest bird-window collision mitigation projects undertaken by any university.
Karen Hickman, professor of natural resource ecology and management and director of the environmental science program in the Oklahoma State University Ferguson College of Agriculture, is the new president of the Society for Range Management.
Recent annual surveys from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation suggest a decline in Oklahoma turkey populations, and observations made by wildlife enthusiasts confirm these results, said Kurt Kuklinski, ODWC wildlife diversity and research supervisor.