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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, economic and social factors.
The use of YouTube videos “ensures cats were behaving in cat-typical ways and gives the conclusions a sense of reality, since these are situations and expressions people may typically encounter with cats,” said Dr. Kristyn R. Vitale, w...
In particular, dogs followed human pointing better than other animals. Dr. Wynne and Dr. Monique Udell, an animal behaviorist at Oregon State University, expected to confirm Dr. Hare’s findings.
In many rangelands, the problem isn’t too many cattle, it’s that the cattle aren’t using the land evenly, says Leticia Henderson, a livestock and range science professor at Oregon State University.
Kristyn Vitale is a woman on a mission: She's out to dispel at least part of the bad rap about cats — that they're aloof and independent, that they only care about their humans because we feed them and so forth. Any cat person who's go...
When the first dead bull turned up at the end of July, it didn’t raise an alarm at the Silvies Valley Ranch. Cattle sometimes die suddenly on the ranch’s 140,000 acres in Harney County — struck by disease or felled by a broken leg and...
