Triennial Report 2020 2022

Unit Staff

Dr. James M. Long

Unit Leader and Adjunct Professor.

Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 2000. Conservation ecology and fisheries science. longjm@okstate.edu; jmlong@usgs.gov

Dr. Lindsey A. Bruckerhoff

Assistant Unit Leader and Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Ph.D., Kansas State University, 2020. Stream and community ecology. Lindsey.bruckerhoff@okstate. edu; lbruckerhoff@usgs.gov

Dr. Robert C. Lonsinger

Assistant Unit Leader and Adjunct Assistant Professor.

Ph.D., University of Idaho, 2015. Wildlife ecology and conservation genetics Robert.lonsinger@okstate. edu; rlonsinger@usgs.gov

Cheryl McKnight

Senior Accounting Specialist. cheryl.mcknight@okstate.edu

Marcie Lemons

Senior Administrative Support Assistant marcie.lemons@okstate.edu

Renee Flasch

Administrative Support Specialist II renee.flasch@okstate.edu

Cooperators

OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY

Administration: Thomas Coon (Vice President), Scott Senseman (Associate Vice President); Agricultural Economics: Bhawna Thapa; Entomology and Plant Pathology: Bruce Noden, Wyatt Hoback; Natural Resource Ecology and Management: Jim Ansley (Head), Colter Chitwood, Craig Davis, Courtney Duchardt, Dwayne Elmore, Sue Fairbanks, Sam Fuhlendorf, Laura Goodman, Karen Hickman, Omkar Joshi, Scott Loss, Tim O’Connell, Dan Shoup, Rod Will; Integrative Biology: Jason Belden (Head), Kristen Baum, Elisa Cabrera-Guzmán, Andy Dzialowski, Tony Echelle, Stanley Fox, Ron Van Den Bussche, Shawn Wilder.

OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION

Administration: J.D. Strong (Director), Wade Free, Andrea Crews; Fisheries: Jory Bartnicki, David Bogner, Brandon Brown, Jim Burroughs, Ken Cunningham (Chief), Austin Griffin, Ashley Nealis, Tony Rodger, Jason Schooley, Richard Snow (Assistant Chief), Trevor Starks, Jon West, Doug Zentner; Wildlife: Curt Allen, Bruce Burton, Steve Conrady, Alex Cooper, Brett Cooper, Scott Cox, Jerrod Davis, Bill Dinkines (Chief), Craig Endicott, Colby Farquhar, Joe Hemphill, Melinda Hickman, Russ Horton (Assistant Chief),

Mark Howery, Ron Justice, Kurt Kuklinski, Mike O’Meilia, Scott Parry, JD Ridge, Mike Sams, Doug Schoeling, Rod Smith, Curtis Tackett, Rex Umber, Derek Wiley.

U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

Columbia Environmental Research Center: Patrick Braaten, Colt Holley; Cooperative Research Units: Dawn Childs, Shana

Coulby, Don Dennerline, Barry Grand, Elise Irwin, Amanda Maslowski, Sumina

Pokharel, Missy Thode; South Central Climate Science Center: Mike Langston.

WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE

Bill Moritz

U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE

Region 2: James Broska (Assistant Regional Director), Beth Ross, David (Randy)

Stewart; Tulsa Ecological Services: Ken Collins (Field Supervisor), Daniel Fenner, David Martinez, Kevin Stubbs; Oklahoma

Fisheries Resource Office: Brian Fillmore; Tishomingo National Fish Hatchery: Ralph Simmons; Wichita Mountains Wildlife

Refuge: Christine Fallon, Dan McDonald

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Kansas City District Office: Joseph Bonneau, Anthony Civiello, Todd

Gemeinhardt, Nate Gosch, Marcus Miller.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

US Forest Service: Robert Bastarache

OSAGE NATION

Frank Freeman, Jann Hayman

Oklahoma Wildlife Research Unit — the beginnings.

The OK Unit began in 1948 when Walter P. Taylor arrived on the campus of Oklahoma A&M College (now Oklahoma State University) in Stillwater that February. Dr. Taylor was the Unit Leader of the Texas Unit and for reasons unclear, needed to relocate the Unit elsewhere. In a memo from 1971, a secondhand story from Dr. Roy Jones, head of the Zoology Department at OSU at the time, mentioned, “the Texas Unit and Dr. Taylor would have to terminate in the late 1940’s.” In response, Congressman Tom Steed helped arrange for the Unit to be established in Oklahoma. At that time, 14 Cooperative Research Units were active throughout the country with an overarching mission to train the next generation of wildlife biologists, primarily through graduate-level research. That mission remains today with the Oklahoma Unit helping over 420 graduates obtain their MS and PhD degrees over its 75 years.