Prescribed burns are used in forests and prairies across the nation to simulate the natural fires that commonly occurred in the early days of the United States. The usage of fire stimulates many things for an ecosystem. Fire will help promote new growth and in some cases fire is needed…

“In urban areas, parks and pieces of green are typically isolated from each other. Wild animals that might be in these natural areas have no way of reaching other animals and other food. They are all trapped in their tiny pieces of land. This is called habitat fragmentation.” — Eleanor…

“We don’t know what future issues we won’t be able to deal with, because we’ve lost the species and genetic variation that would have given us the resources to deal with it. …

In 1973, the 108th Congress passes the Endangered Species Act which officially set into law the protection of wildlife in the United States. The Endangered Species Act (ESA) finally put into motion the tools necessary for conservationists to begin saving species in the United States that were on the verge…

Many outdoorsman and hunters make food plots on their property to draw in and observe the wildlife. Food plots are a useful investmentment for hunters to draw in deer and other wildlife for the hunting seasons. …

As April is rapidly approching, many outdoorsman are awaiting the arival of spring morel mushrooms. In Missouri, we have three different speicies of edible morel mushrooms. All morel mushrooms have a similar honeycome top and a hollow base. Morel mushrooms are a delicacy to many and are one of the…

When a paper has a tight word limit, it is easy to cut method details, mentions of pilot studies or measures that ‘didn’t work,’ or even references. Missing method details are a source of nonreplicability. — Barbara A. Spellman Scientific studies have been effected by limited outlets and resources of…

Assumptions, when not made explicit, do not simply cease to exist. Rather, they influence the direction of inquiry, the choice of measurements, the way the data is collected and transformed, and the conclusions that are drawn. — Nick Barrowman Nick Barrowman, a Senior Statistician at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern…

Aging white-tailed deer is useful knowledge for researchers and landowners both. Knowing the age of deer that have been killed will help determine the number of deer that are reaching maturity in the herd and will show trends for age classes around the area of the harvest. When deer are…