The website for the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University has useful information for current and prospective students, lists of departmental faculty and research projects, and interesting news items.
Explore an interactive map of research projects currently underway by faculty, students, and research associates in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.
Media coverage of Epps lab research
Bighorn sheep research:
Atlas Obscura. “When bighorn sheep decide to cross a highway.” 18 June 2018.
Oregon State University. “Desert bighorn sheep are crossing Interstate 40 in California.” ScienceDaily, 6 June 2018.
KTVZ News. “Wildlife in central Oregon: Oregon’s bighorn sheep revival.” 18 July 2017.
Oregon State University Extension Service. “OSU bighorn sheep research sheds light on path of killer disease.” 6 April 2017.
Oregon State University Agricultural Experiment Station. “Counting sheep.” Oregon’s Agricultural Progress, Winter 2015.
Use of lead ammunition:
Journal of Mountain Hunting. “Lead Bullets: Hunting for clarity in a controversy.” November 2017.
American beaver draft genome, sequenced by Oregon State University’s Center for Genome Research and Biocomputing (Epps Lab members contributed):
Oregon State University Extension Service. “OSU researchers release first analysis of complete beaver genome.” 13 January 2017.
Potential effects of proposed US-Mexico border wall on wildlife:
BBC News. “What would Trump’s wall mean for wildlife?” 1 September 2016.
BBC World Service. Science in Action. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p045103p 26 August 2016.
Nature News. “Trump’s border wall pledge threatens delicate desert ecosystems“. 16 August 2016.
Marten habitat use and movement:
“Study shows forest thinning changes movement patterns, habitat use by martens.” 7 April 2016
Pika – climate change and landscape genetics:
Mountain West News Bureau. “What’s fluffy, squeaky, and interbreeding in the Rockies? Pikas.” 19 July 2018
University of Washington. Conservation magazine. “Pikas have some fight in them yet.” 3 February 2016.
Oregon Public Broadcasting. EarthFix. “Alpine pikas may survive climate change – depending on where they live.” 29 January 2016
Temporal considerations in landscape genetics:
The Molecular Ecologist. “The biggest problem in landscape genetics and how to fix it.” 11 December 2015
OSU Fisheries and Wildlife mammal collection:
The Corvallis Gazette Times. “Skin and Bones.” 27 March 2017
