Alison Lund
Program Manager
alison.lund@ag.tamu.eduAs a program manager for the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Alison leads several initiatives spanning NRI’s programs including Private Lands & Trends and Military Land Sustainability & Policy. Her work focuses on the convergence of natural resources conservation, working lands and military training space, to promote the sustainability of key landscapes across the state and beyond. In addition to her programmatic efforts, Alison serves as a liaison for the newly redesigned Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management to ensure the next generation of land stewards have opportunities within the Institute to experience scientific research and Extension activities.
Before joining NRI in 2013, Alison earned a Bachelor of Science in renewable natural resources in 2010 and a master’s in natural resources development in 2013, along with certificates in leadership and military land sustainability, from Texas A&M University. While attending Texas A&M, she participated in the Corps of Cadets, the Texas A&M pistol team and Parsons Mounted Cavalry.
As a native Texan she was born and raised in Corpus Christi but now moves around the country with her husband who serves in the U.S. Army. In her free time, she enjoys horseback riding, leatherworking and spending time outdoors with her kids.
Publications
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Florida Key Deer Presence on Outer Islands Following New World Screwworm and Hurricane Irma
May 2020
Parker, I.D., J. Parker, A.E. Montalvo, R.R. Lopez, N.J. Silvy, A.A. Lund, E. Barham, D.S. Finn and M. Crawford. 2020. Florida Key Deer Presence on Outer Islands Following New World Screwworm and Hurricane Irma. Southeastern Naturalist 19.
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Florida Key Deer Abundance and Recovery Following New World Screwworm Infestation
Apr 2020
Parker, I.D., R.R. Lopez, N.J. Silvy, B.L. Pierce, K.G. Watts, E.P. Myers, S.E.J. Gibbs, D.S. Davis, J.T. Beaver, A.A. Lund. 2020. Florida Key Deer Abundance and Recovery Following New World Screwworm Infestation. Southeastern Naturalist. 19(2):179–191.
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A Simple Method for Estimating Plant Biomass Used in Grazing Management
Dec 2018
Research Reports
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Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program: 2024 evaluation report
Sep 2024
Lund, A.A., L.A. Smith, R.R. Lopez. 2024. Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program: 2024 evaluation report. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Research Report Number 2024-1. College Station, Texas, USA.
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Economic Values of White-tailed Deer in Texas: Part II
Dec 2023
Texas A&M University Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute. 2023. Economic values of white-tailed deer in Texas: 2022 Survey-Part II. College Station. TX.
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Economic Values of White-tailed Deer in Texas: Part I
May 2023
Texas A&M University Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management and Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute. 2023. Economic values of white-tailed deer in Texas: 2022 Survey - Part I. College Station, TX.
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Conserving Texas: Quantifying Ecological Return on Investment
Jan 2023
Smith, L.A., A.A. Lund, R.R. Lopez. 2023. Conserving Texas: Quantifying Ecological Return on Investment. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Research Report Number 2023-1. College Station, Texas, USA.
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Threatened and Endangered Species Forecast
Nov 2021
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Military Land Use Compatibility in Texas: 2021
Sep 2021
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Texas Military Airspace & Land Use Projections
Sep 2021
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Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program: 2020 Evaluation
Nov 2020
Lund, A.A., G.W. Powers, R.R. Lopez, L.A. Smith, L.M. Olson, and L.F. Gregory. 2020. Texas farm and ranch lands conservation program: 2020 Evaluation report. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Research Report Number 2020-1. College Station, Texas, USA.
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Status Update and Trends of Texas Working Lands 1997 - 2017
Dec 2019
Smith, L.A., R.R. Lopez, A.A. Lund, B.N. Wegner, J.C. Cathey, A. Lopez, R.E. Anderson, G.W. Powers, K.L. Skow, M.A. Crawford. 2019. Status Update and Trends of Texas Working Lands. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute (NRI), College Station, TX, USA.
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Trends in Land Ownership Along Texas Borderlands
Jun 2019
Lopez, A., A.A. Lund, M.A. Crawford, L.A. Smith, K.L. Skow, J.G. Cross, L.A. Harveson and R.R. Lopez. 2019. Trends in Land Ownership Along Texas Borderlands. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute. College Station, TX, USA.
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Conservation Easements in Texas
Jan 2019
Lund, A.A., L.A. Smith, A. Lopez, R.R. Lopez and J.H. Leibowitz. 2019. Conservation Easements in Texas. Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute. College Station, TX, USA.
Field Notes
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NRI expands web tools to help protect military training spaces from incompatible development
Jul 23, 2025
With funding from DOD's Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation, NRI developed the new Texas Compatible Use Zones (TCUZ) Viewer (tcuz.nri.tamu.edu), the first centralized web tool to display military compatible use zones (using DOD AICUZ and ICUZ data) for active-duty installations across the state. The TCUZ Viewer helps anyone considering development near a military installation in Texas identify whether their location of interest may conflict with military operations in that area.
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Texas A&M AgriLife leaders offer New World screwworm experience
Jul 21, 2025
Veterans of 2016 Florida outbreak reflect on lessons learned, share insight to protect Texas livestock and wildlife
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Farm and ranch lands program safeguards millions in water conservation, flood prevention and ag productivity
Oct 11, 2024
NRI released the 2024 evaluation report today for the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program (TFRLCP) publishing key findings to support the program’s efforts to help safeguard the public benefits derived from working lands.
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Investing in Conservation: Quantifying ecological return on investment
Apr 10, 2023
Conserving Texas: Quantifying Ecological Return on Investment was developed to better understand the current benefits and needs for financial investment in our state's natural resources to best support our growing state population, the stewards of the land, our thriving economy, and healthy landscapes.
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Texas airspace planning and forecasting to combat encroachment on military preparedness
Jan 14, 2022
NRI’s latest web tool, the Texas Airspace Planning and Forecasting Tool, provides a comprehensive solution for planners. Employing easy-to-navigate functionality, the tool combines those military installation fence lines on the ground and airspace boundaries over head with forecasted land development data up to year 2050.
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New military land use compatibility tools to shape the future of action plans across the nation
Jan 3, 2022
NRI developed several reports and web tools to assist installation personnel and community stakeholders in addressing various aspects of encroachment issues facing Texas installations from airspace, land and threatened and endangered species forecasting.
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TxMAP: A new way to map with conservation data
Oct 16, 2021
Creating your individualized, conservation-minded map of Texas just became the bee's knees.
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Financial, ecological benefits of conservation easements on working lands
Jan 11, 2021
A recent report by the Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Texas Water Resources Institute and Texas Land Trust Council shows state-funded conservation easements in Texas provide numerous financial and ecological benefits.
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Texas farm and ranch land conservation program publishes evaluation report
Nov 12, 2020
The goal of this report was to examine the conservation easements executed under the Texas Farm and Ranch Lands Conservation Program, evaluating ecological and economic values secured through the protection of these properties as well as the fiscal efficiency of state funds to protect working lands with high agricultural value at a relatively low cost for state residents.