Native American Research Assistantships

The U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Premier Partner of The Wildlife Society, is sponsoring a research assistantship program for Native American students.

Potential project topics include:

1. Assessment of camera trap surveys to estimate wild pig and white-tailed deer density
2. Integrating wildlife habitat into non-conventional forest management
3. Evaluating regional and landscape-scale movement patterns of wood turtles
4. Long term monitoring of treated and untreated Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) territories on tribal lands
5. Space use, survival, and nesting ecology of avian cavity excavators in prescribed burns
6. Woodpecker Surveys in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming

The deadline for applications is Oct 18, 2017.  Contact Mariah Simmons if you have any questions about the program.

Click here for the application.