CFAES researchers Jeremy Bruskotter, Nicole Hengst, and Matthew Shumar, all of the School of Environment and Natural Resources, will be among the presenters at the 60th annual Ohio Wildlife Conference on Jan. 24 in Columbus.
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CFAES urban coyote expert: Bites on people ‘extremely rare’
NPR recently interviewed CFAES researcher Stan Gehrt in light of two recent attacks by coyotes on Chicagoans. Gehrt’s pioneering study of urban coyotes, started 20 years ago and still underway, is based in metro Chicago. Listen to the interview (3 minutes) or read the transcript.
SENR film series to host renowned wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen
The fifth Environmental Film Series, hosted by CFAES’s School of Environment and Natural Resources (SENR), starts on Tuesday, Jan. 21, with “A Life in the Wild,” an in-person appearance by and discussion with renowned wildlife photographer Tom Mangelsen timed to the opening of his traveling retrospective exhibit at COSI in Columbus (which opens Jan. 15 and runs to Jan. 3 of next year). He talks about the exhibit’s first appearance, at the Durham Museum in his home state of Nebraska, in the video above.
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CFAES alum Alan Wentz receives Aldo Leopold wildlife award
W. Alan Wentz, PhD, who earned his bachelor’s degree in agricultural and biological conservation from Ohio State in 1969 and is a 1999 recipient of CFAES’ Distinguished Alumni Award, was recognized with the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award for distinguished service to wildlife conservation in Reno, Nevada, on Oct. 1 at the joint meeting of The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society.
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Coming up: A day in the (fall) woods
The series called A Day in the Woods continues with “Woodland and Wildlife Research” on Oct. 11.
The event will feature research underway in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest near McArthur, including on subjects such as blue jays, rattlesnakes, and sustaining oak-hickory forests.
Just as important, the flier says, you can also just “enjoy the fall woods.”
CFAES’ OSU Extension outreach arm is one of the series sponsors.
What makes hemlock forests special—starting with hemlocks
Discover the Hocking Hills’ hemlock forests—and the things that make noise in the night in those forests—on the next A Day in the Woods (and part of a night). It’s this Friday, Aug. 9. (Photo: Hocking Hills State Park, Getty Images.)
One humdinger of a bird walk
On Saturday, Aug. 10, CFAES’ Secrest Arboretum in Wooster is holding a free public bird walk. You can see and learn to identify birds, such as the ruby-throated hummingbird shown here. And you can also see what the birds have to say about the arboretum’s plants and ecosystems. “One of the most useful things that birds can indicate,” an EnvironmentalScience.org webpage called “Birds as Environmental Indicators” says, “is overall habitat quality.” (Photo: Getty Images.)
Quoth the pewee: ‘There’s a lot of things about me you don’t understand’
A CFAES workshop on Aug. 16 will check out the Wildlife in Your Woods. Sign up by Aug. 9. (Photo: Eastern wood-pewee, Getty Images.)
Stuff your cheeks with wildlife knowledge
There’s lots of life—wild life—in southeast Ohio’s Vinton Furnace State Forest, and there’s a chance coming up to check it out (scroll down).
What do Americans think about wildlife?
By Mary Guiden, Science Writer and Senior Public Relations Specialist, Colorado State University
Abundant and healthy wildlife populations are a cultural and ecological treasure in the United States. Over time, however, decisions about how agencies manage wildlife have become highly contested: How should managers handle human-wildlife conflict, endangered species restoration, and predator control?
A new 50-state study called America’s Wildlife Values—the largest and first of its kind—describes individuals’ values toward wildlife across states. Leading the study were researchers from Colorado State and Ohio State, including Alia Dietsch and Jeremy Bruskotter of CFAES’ School of Environment and Natural Resources.