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About the Oklahoma Unit

Unit Staff (from back row left): Sheryl Lyon (Sr. Admin.), Jim Long (AUL-F), Chip Leslie (UL-W), Shannon Brewer (AUL-F), Joyce Hufford (Admin.)

The Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit has three facets to its mission: (1) Graduate Education, (2) Research, and (3) Technical Assistance.

The Unit consists of 3 federal scientists (a Unit Leader and 2 Assistant Leaders) and 2 administrative specialists. The Unit Leader provides oversight to all Unit activities. Federal scientists hold faculty rank at their home institution, teach courses and workshops for graduate students and cooperators, and conduct research on a wide variety of natural resource topics. Research projects typically support graduate students and post-docs.

The Oklahoma Unit has been a part of Oklahoma State University since 1948 and a part of the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management since its inception in 2007.

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Current Staff

Federal Staff: 3

Masters Students: 8

Phd Students: 3

Post Docs: 1

University Staff: 3

5 Year Summary

Students graduated: 10

Scientific Publications: 71

Presentations: 86

 

Contact Us

Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Stillwater, OK 74078-3051 Phone: (405) 744 - 6342 Fax: (405) 744 - 5006 Our University Web Site

Unit Leader

David Leslie
Unit Leader, Chip Leslie, with grandson Donovan.

After spending the first 18 years of my life bird hunting and fishing in the northland prairies and forests of Minnesota (going to school too), I moved west and received my B.S. in Arizona, M.S. in Nevada, and Ph.D. in Oregon—the latter while studying elk and deer on the Olympic Peninsula in western Washington. Ever on the road in those days, my family and I moved cross-country to Maine where I taught in the Wildlife Department at the University of Maine–Orono. In 1985, we moved to Stillwater America, as they say, where I joined the Oklahoma Unit as an Assistant Unit, becoming Unit Leader in 1989.

Links

  1. 2008-2009 Biennial Report

Oklahoma Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Cooperators

  1. Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation
  2. Oklahoma State University
  3. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
  4. U.S. Geological Survey
  5. Wildlife Management Institute