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Service: Extension personnel statewide guide and support agricultural producers and land managers through workshops, publications and one-on-one meetings to translate research findings into management actions.
Innovation: Students have unique opportunities to train and conduct innovative research under exceptional faculty with diverse backgrounds and resources. Animal and Rangeland Science faculty have broad expertise in applied and discovery research.
Systems Approach: Rangeland Ecologists examine a multitude of components, interactions and controls in research to better understand proliferation and community dynamics of the invasive species Medusa Head.
Leadership: Effective leadership skills are integral to the growth and success of students. An abundance of opportunities exist for students to enhance leadership skills through clubs and various organizations within the department and the university.
Responsible Stewardship: A balance between meeting demand for livestock products and ensuring the long-term sustainability of rangelands can only be achieved through consideration of ecological, econonic and social factors.
Hiding somewhere in the sagebrush on a wide-open area were dozens of sage grouse. It was dark. So dark it seemed you can see nearly every star.
Study author Monique Udell, an animal behaviorist at Oregon State University, has another interpretation: ever-social dogs were simply more excited about the prospect of interacting with people than completing the task at hand.
The spread of western juniper and invasive grasses are major threats to the health of the sagebrush-steppe ecosystem, an Oregon State University researcher says.
“It was once thought that during domestication, dogs had evolved an advanced form of social cognition that wolves lacked,” said the report’s co-author Monique Udell, an animal scientist at Oregon State University. “This new evidence would suggest...
Though he retired from the ARS in 2016, Svejcar continues to work as a professor and senior researcher for Oregon State University at the research center.
