Agricultural Division Staff: Russell Stevens
Stevens is a regional manager and a wildlife and fisheries consultant in the Agricultural Division's consultation program. His areas of interest include wildlife habitat improvement, wild turkey management, white-tailed deer management, range management, prescribed fire, brush sculpting, plant identification, feral hog impacts and waterfowl issues. Stevens joined the Noble Foundation in 1989. He has authored The Feral Hog in Oklahoma, Collecting and Interpreting White-tailed Deer Population Data, Quality of Native Plant Forage Species Important to White-tailed Deer and Goats in South Central Oklahoma and How Much Does it Cost to Burn? He co-authored Grasses of Southern Oklahoma and North Texas: A Pictorial Guide as well as Trees, Shrubs and Vines: A Pictorial Guide. Stevens is a certified wildlife biologist by The Wildlife Society, a certified range management consultant by the Society for Range Management and a certified professional in rangeland management by the Society for Range Management. Stevens was raised on a cow-calf operation in south-central Oklahoma.
• Master of Science in animal science, 1989, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas
• Bachelor of Science in biology, 1986, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Okla.
Distribution of Feral Hog in Oklahoma
The Future of Hunting Is In Danger
Fish Pond Water Quality: As Simple as Chemistry 101
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Are We Seeing the Return of the Bobwhite?
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Plant Identification: Is It Worth the Effort?
Plant of the Month: February, 2001
WBDMA -Walnut Bayou Deer Management Association Five Year Report 1996-2000
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Ten Years of Prescribed Fire on a Cross Timbers Woodland Community
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The Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery
Plant of the Month: December, 1999
Where, Oh Where, Are the Quail?
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Property Tax Exemption for Wildlife Management
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Spotlight and Daylight Cruise Survey of Deer: Collecting and Interpreting Data
How Much Does it Cost to Burn?
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Funds for Wildlife: Government Programs Update
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Think About the Possibility of Recreational Leasing