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 – 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

University of Montana – Ph.D. in Forestry – 1999 – Field Testing the Accuracy and Generality of Selected Wildlife-Habitat Models

Michigan State University – Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Completed 2020 - An Agent-Based Approach for Surveillance and Management of Chronic Wasting Disease

Texas A&M University – Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences – 2014 - Empowering All Who Dwell Here: Natural Resource Management and Public Participation

University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point – B.S. in Wildlife Ecology – 2012 - Impact of Edge Effects on the Success of Artificial Northern Bobwhite Nests

MISSOULA, Mont. (May 5, 2022) – In late April, the Judges Panel for the Boone and Crockett Club’s 31st Big Game Awards completed the official scores on 71 of the top trophies in 32 categories from 26 distinct species or subspecies that were taken through fair chase hunting or were picked up and entered into the B&C Record Book over the last three years. The mounts that were panel…

Hunters can now learn to score North American big-game species for $5 per trophy type. For the first time, individual chapters of the official Boone and Crockett Club scoring manual are being offered as electronic PDF files.

Previously, only complete published copies of "Measuring and Scoring North American Big Game Trophies" were available.

A Voice and an Artist for Conservation — In the early 1930s, the Bureau of Biological Survey was so poorly reputed that there were calls for its dissolution. One man saved it, a man who was a most unlikely candidate. He had no prior administrative experience, had never worked in a bureaucracy, had never run for public office, and was not even a biologist. He was, amazingly, a political…