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Gizmodo cites a study by Dr. Viorel Popescu, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences at Ohio University, in a story headlined “A Fight Over Killing Bobcats Is Raging Across the Midwest.” During the impassioned debate in Ohio over whether to allow trapping, proponents argued that a 60-bobcat cap wouldn’t put the animal’s numbers […]

Ohio University researchers were awarded close to $50,000 through the Ohio University 1804 Fund to set up a freshwater research facility that will enable graduate and undergraduate research and experiential learning. Humans and fish and wildlife alike depend on clean freshwater. Southeastern Ohio is not particularly famous for clean, healthy […]

By Tyler Stewart Biological Sciences student interning at the Wayne National Forest When I was offered the opportunity to work at the Wayne National Forest as an intern for the summer, I was ecstatic. Last summer, two students from Ohio University’s wildlife biology program partnered with the Wayne National Forest […]

  Editor’s Note: Nicole Dake and Tyler Stewart are Environmental Biology and Wildlife Biology majors interning at the Wayne National Forest. This summer two Biological Sciences students, Nicole Dake and Tyler Stewart, participated in an internship through the Wayne National Forest. Tasked with surveying a future prescribed burn site (the Long […]

From Research News Dr. Viorel Popescu, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences in Ohio University’s College of Arts & Sciences, will be the featured guest on the Party Line talk show with Dave Palmer on WATH radio from 9 to 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 23. Listeners can tune in to […]

by Kristin Distel Ten Ohio University students are spending their summer gaining invaluable hands-on experience as they intern at Wayne National Forest. The majority of the interns’ time will be spent assisting with two major Wayne National Forest initiatives—the Bailey’s Mountain Bike Project, where student interns are “integral” to the […]

The Ohio Wildlife Council indefinitely tabled a proposal to allow bobcat trapping in Ohio, citing a four-year Ohio University study just under way on the state’s the bobcat population. As reported in the Columbus Dispatch Friday morning, the chair of the advisory council, Dr. Paul Mechling II explained at the meeting why the panel […]