The Winter Sourcebook Volume VI is here
Directly from the field, the Winter 2025 NRI Sourcebook is here—each season, we publish a digital collection of the recently published peer-reviewed scientific publications, research reports, and resources developed to support the improvement of conservation, natural resource management, and private land stewardship. This collection is for you, your partners and community to use and share where we can collaborate to create resilient landscapes.
We collaborated on such a wealth of knowledge in 2024 that we decided to create another Sourcebook edition with a diverse body of work including findings on toxicant use to control red imported fire ants threatening native species, machine learning methods used to categorize grazing cattle behaviors, assessing hurricane impacts on habitat of the endangered Key deer, genome-data on the relationships of earless lizard species, comparisons on the morphology and vocalizations of the Houston toad and dwarf American toads, studies to better understand how mammal species react to humans, two studies assessing site selection for ocelot reintroduction and the viability of said reintroduction, and research on imperiled freshwater mussels including on their growth and longevity, annulus validation, and the creation of conservation and management frameworks to protect the species.
We are also releasing reports and landowner resources that provide an overview of the permitting and regulatory process surrounding living shorelines in four coastal states, updates on landowner demographics and their relationship to wildlife management, and an evaluation of the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program in 2024. Each item featured in the Sourcebook can be accessed on the NRI website under Research.
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Abigail joined the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute in April 2017 as a student assistant. She currently works as a Project Coordinator for a variety of projects, but she was instrumental in creating resources for the Reversing the Quail Decline Initiative (RQDI), a conservation program which sought to address the decades-long decline of quail populations in Texas through research, education, and outreach. Abigail provides educational resources for County Extension agents and landowners, creates scientific reports, and writes about wildlife ecology and management.
She received a Bachelors of Science in Wildlife & Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University in 2018, with a concentration in wildlife ecology.
In her free time, Abigail enjoys birding, reading, and camping.
As a program manager for partnerships for the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Brittany works with our partners to build strategies to grow the recognition and use of sound science, expanding conversations around conservation and how we work with private landowners in Texas.
Brittany joined NRI in 2017 with a background in agency strategy in the nonprofit, transportation, energy and higher education sectors. She received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Communications and Journalism from Texas A&M University. Today, she works with students in the department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management to ensure they are prepared to meet the challenge to connect the right research and solutions to natural resource managers.
She and her husband both come from families with working ranches in Texas where they spend their weekends with their two sons. She enjoys coffee, landscape photography, bow hunting and practicing ranch management methodologies in and out of the office.
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