Natural Resources University

For as long as people have been interacting with wild animals, they have been manipulating the places where wild animals live. So, is habitat management the oldest job in the world? Join Adam and Jarred as they chat about the history of wildlife habitat management, dig deep into the central premise of habitat management – plant succession – and introduce the five tools for habitat management that Aldo Leopold described in his 1933 book, Game Management. Learn more about plant succession and its relationship to wildlife habitat by checking out the resources below: Iowa's Forest Birds - https://store.extension.iastate.edu/Product/15963 Managing Your Woods for White-Tailed Deer - https://edustore.purdue.edu/item.asp?Item_Number=FNR-596-W Grassland Successional Chart - https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/GrasslandSuccession_wFNR.png Wildlife Habitat Education Program - https://fwf.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2020/07/1_2020-WHEP-Intro-Acitivites.pdf

Fire and herbivory have always been important disturbances in grasslands and their interaction may be particularly important for wildlife habitat. In this week's episode, we talk to Dr. Sam Fuhlendorf of Oklahoma State University and Bob Hamilton of The Nature Conservancy about using patch-burn-grazing to mimic that natural process. Strategic use of prescribed fire and cattle may lead to habitat improvements for wildlife while increasing cattle production. Related peer-reviewed papers: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234983 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378112719318821 https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/1365-2435.13083

Knowing where to get information, training, experience, and help is critical to success in prescribed burning. In this episode of Fire University, Marcus Lashley talks with fire professionals Zach Prusak and Andy Rappe to discuss the tools and resources available to fire practitioners and private landowners no matter where you are and why collaboration throughout the fire community is imperative to everyone's success.

Some hunters think Chronic Wasting Disease is no big deal, some hunters even think CWD is good for a state wildlife agency because the disease will bring with it an abundance of federal funding. Our interview with Jason Sumners of the Missouri Department of Conservation, and Cory Gray of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will fully explain the issues this disease brings to wildlife management agencies.

In this episode of Fire University, Dr. Marcus Lashley visits old friends and colleagues Dr. Craig Harper, John Gruchy, and Jordan Nanney and discusses burning in upland hardwoods. The conversation focuses on habitat improvement for white-tailed deer and wild turkey, as well as implementation strategy to maximize success. Enroll now in our free wildland fire course. Available to all! This podcast is supported by listener donations - thank you for being a part of this effort. For more information, follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube!

What do you picture when you hear "habitat"? Habitat is one of the most important concepts in wildlife management, but what does it actually mean? Join Adam and Jarred as they define "habitat" and discuss why its use is a "panchreston problem." We'll explain what the heck "panchreston" means and discuss why we should be careful about how we talk about habitat to minimize confusion and clarify objectives. Jarred and Adam will also explore why defining and using habitat correctly is important in helping landowners and managers construct and achieve their management objectives. Learn more about habitat as a panchreston problem in (Kirk et al. 2018. Our use, misuse, and abandonment of a concept: Whither habitat.Ecology and Evolution 8:4197–4208). https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5916312/

Welcome to the second episode of Pond University! In this episode, we talk with Purdue Extension Educator David Osborne. Dave has been helping landowners manage their ponds for over 20 years and has a wealth of knowledge on many pond management topics. Today, he talks about how your pond changes during winter and things that you can do to prevent negative impacts on fish populations. Please see below for useful links: Dave's profile page: https://extension.purdue.edu/Ripley/profile/osbornda Dave's video recommendation "Great Small Waters": http://www.rayscott.net/sales/gsw.php Mitch's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mzischke&intDirDeptID=15 Mitch's twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAussieWahoo Megan's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mlgunn&intDirDeptID=15 Megan's twitter: https://twitter.com/_TFFP Pond and wildlife management website: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/ Natural Resources University website: https://naturalresourcesuniversity.libsyn.com/ Purdue's Department of Natural Resources website: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/default.aspx Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website: https://iiseagrant.org/ Contact us! https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/contact-us/

Just when are deer most attracted to acorns? You might think - all the time! And hey, you may be right. In this episode with former MSU Deer Lab graduate student Moriah Boggess, we review his research where he monitored deer acorn use throughout the year and see that deer can be attracted to acorns much later in the year than you might expect. This can have important implications when hunting during the post rut.

Where do bucks go during hunting season? Does hunting pressure change where bucks spend time? In this episode Bronson, Steve, and former MSU Deer Lab graduate student Colby Henderson, review research findings from a 2-year study where about 50 bucks were marked with GPS-enabled collars and we monitored their movements throughout a hunted landscape over the hunting season. First, what is habitat "selection"? Selection is a measure of how much time an animal spends in a particular vegetation type relative to how much of that vegetation type exists on the landscape. For example, if hardwood forest is only 5% of a property and deer spend 50% of their time there, then selection for hardwood forest would be very high – deer are differentially selecting for hardwood forest relative to the amount available to them on the landscape. We compared not only what vegetation types bucks selected, but also what hunters selected, and how that changed over the hunting season. Twitter: https://twitter.com/MSUDeerLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/msudeerlab/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/msu.deerlab YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDOZeiPref8vhAHkULM3IGg

Welcome to the very first episode of Pond University! Pond University is hosted by Mitchell Zischke and Megan Gunn from Purdue University and Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant. In this first episode, we talk with Purdue Aquatic Sciences major Logan Halderman about all the different parts of the pond ecosystem. Please see below for useful links: Mitch's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mzischke&intDirDeptID=15 Megan's profile page: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/Profile.aspx?strAlias=mlgunn&intDirDeptID=15 Pond and wildlife management website: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/ Purdue's Department of Natural Resources website: https://ag.purdue.edu/fnr/Pages/default.aspx Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant website: https://iiseagrant.org/ Logan's book recommendation "The Founding Fish": https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374528836 Mitchell's Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheAussieWahoo Megan's Twitter: https://twitter.com/_TFFP Contact us: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/contact-us/

Welcome to Habitat University! In this introductory Episode, Habitat University co-hosts Jarred Brooke and Adam Janke discuss the vision for the podcast and how it fits into the new collaborative science-based podcast series called Natural Resources University. Jarred and Adam share information about their background, what they do as state wildlife extension specialists, and where they plan to take this new podcast exploring the in's and out's out of wildlife habitat management and conservation in the U.S. Learn more about Jarred and his work here: https://extension.purdue.edu/pondwildlife/wildlife/ Learn more about Adam and his work here: https://naturalresources.extension.iastate.edu/wildlife Twitter: https://twitter.com/Habitat_U Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/habitatuniversity/

Fire University is a science-based podcast covering the latest research in fire ecology and how it relates to management of wildlife and plant communities. In this first episode, Dr. Marcus Lashley sits down with communications specialist Charlotte Nowak to introduce this series on fire ecology. Twitter: https://twitter.com/UFDEERLab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ufdeerlab/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ufdeerlab YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5orPZezH2fNGe97ZHAb9Hg

In this first episode, meet the team of researchers and extension specialists that make up the Natural Resources University network! Subscribe to NRU for all episodes or join an individual series on its respective podcast feed. Fire University | Dr. Marcus Lashley Deer University | Dr. Bronson Strickland & Dr. Steve Demarais Habitat University | Adam Janke & Jarred Brooke Pond University | Dr. Mitchell Zischke & Megan Gunn Twitter: https://twitter.com/NR_University Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nr_university/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Natural-Resources-University-101131418502616 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ-uehW5nyQ8uZMDSHG_low