When: Wednesday, Oct. 16, 3:30-5 p.m.
Where: Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery,
1155 Q St.
Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 7, 2002 -- Research on conditions for three big game species in western Nebraska will be the topic of the next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
W. Sue Fairbanks, assistant professor of biology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, will present "Conservation Research on Deer, Bighorn Sheep and Pronghorn Antelope in Western Nebraska" from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Oct. 16 in the Great Plains Art Collection in the Christlieb Gallery, 1155 Q St. Her lecture and a 3 p.m. reception in the gallery are free and open to the public.
Fairbanks will discuss several current field research studies that are designed to contribute to broad knowledge of conservation biology as well as provide information on three issues that she said are important to wildlife management in Nebraska.
She will describe a study of pronghorn antelope in northwest Nebraska that looks at the effects of changes in vegetation composition on a population near the edge of the species' range, a second study in northwest Nebraska that focuses on habitat selection by a reintroduced population of bighorn sheep in the Pine Ridge, and a third study at Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge that looks at interactions between native mule deer and relatively recent arrivals, white-tailed deer.
The Olson seminars are presented by the Center for Great Plains Studies at UNL.
Contact: Linda Ratcliffe, Great Plains Studies, (402)
472-3965 (lratcliffe1@unl.edu)
For questions regarding these releases, contact:
tsimons1@unl.edu
(402) 472-8514, Fax: (402) 472-7825