The Healthy Trade Institute and UT partner to launch nationwide Herp Adoption Program
SNR, 4-H Center host National WHEP competition
Sixty students and from 13 different states competed in the National Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) at the Clyde York 4-H Center in Crossville from July 28–31. Tennessee placed first…
Step Outside: Riley Rines on summer roost selection for tricolored bats and Southeastern myotis
Master’s student and graduate teaching assistant Riley Rines spent the 2024 summer in the West Gulf Coastal Plain of Arkansas researching tricolored and Southeastern myotis bat roost selection for a…
Chytrid 101: Causes, Treatments, and Prevention from Dr. Matt Gray
Men Cook Too program teaches about wild game preparation
UT Extension Specialist Ronnie Cowan leads the Men Cook Too program. It teaches hunters how to prepare wild game for cooking. Cowan recently made his “retriever pie” with dove for…
Bear relocation study highlighted in Word from the Smokies column
Word from the Smokies: For bears, relocation is ‘no happily ever after,’ focuses on research by adjunct associate professor Joe Clark and research specialist Kristin Botzet.
SNR professor takes students to Smokies for salamander sampling
Professor Matt Gray took students in his Amphibian Ecology Conservation class to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to capture salamanders. The group disinfected their shoes to kill any pathogens…
SNR Extension specialists hold training on 4-H wildlife judging
Extension Specialists Chris Graves and Craig Harper held a training session on 4-H wildlife judging for the UT Extension Central Region. County agents and volunteers attended the in-service training on…
Step Outside: Adam Willcox on Sustainable Hunting Research
Data collected by SNR research associate Adam Willcox almost 30 years ago is part of a new extensive study that focuses on wild animal hunting patterns in African tropical forests.…
Three-peat: UTK Wildlife and Fisheries Society named Best Student Subunit Award
The Wildlife and Fisheries Society received the Best Student Subunit Award for the third year in a row at the Southern Division of the American Fisheries Society annual meeting. It…
