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MISSION

Our mission is to provide science-based research, instruction, and extension that supports ecologically and economically sustainable
wildlife conservation and management in working landscapes.

 

 

THE LAB

scientist in the field trapping a grouse

Research

Our research addresses questions regarding space use and demography of free-ranging animals in response to habitat manipulation and human land use. 

 

A cracked eggshell

Teaching

Lance McNew teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in wildlife and rangeland ecology and management.​ 

 

man and woman in the field doing research

People

Profiles of current and past Wildlife Habitat Ecology Lab members.

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Our study systems are diverse and include animals with a wide range of life histories and ecosystems that differ in seasonality and patterns of resource availability. We use both experimental and observational approaches and employ a variety of techniques including mark-recapture, radio-telemetry, surveys, stable isotopes, and quantitative modeling to answer questions about wildlife-habitat relationships.

 

 

"Nothing could be more lonely

and nothing more beautiful

than the view at nightfall

across the prairies to

these huge hill masses,

when the lengthening shadows

had at last merged into one

and the faint after-glow of the red sunset

filled the west."

                ― Theodore Roosevelt

“One swallow does not make a summer,

but one skein of geese,

cleaving the murk of a March thaw,

is the spring.”

                            ― Aldo Leopold

“The nation behaves well

if it treatsits natural resources

as assets which it must turn over

to the next generation increased,

and not impaired, in value.” 
                                                               
              ― Theodore Roosevelt