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[image:] Mark Ford Mark Ford

Title: Research Wildlife Biologist
Unit: Ecological and Economic Sustainability of the Appalachian Forest in an Era of Globalization
Previous Unit: Sustainable Forest Ecosystems in the Central Appalachians
Address: Northern Research Station
P.O. Box 404
Parsons, WV 26287
Phone: 304-478-2000, ext. 111
E-mail: Contact Mark Ford

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Education

  • Ph.D. Forest Resources, University of Georgia
  • M.S. Wildlife Ecology, Mississippi State University
  • B.S. Wildlife and Fisheries Science, University of Tennessee

Civic & Professional Affiliations

Certified Wildlife Biologist, The Wildlife Society

Current Research

My current research projects and collaborations:

  1. Ecology and management of the endangered Virginia northern flying squirrel and links to adaptive
  2. management strategies within HCP and Safe Harbor arenas
  3. Landscape modeling of declining Allegheny woodrats in the Appalachians
  4. Roosting and foraging ecology of bats (esp. the endangered Indiana bat) in managed and semi-wild forest blandscapes
  5. Landscape modeling of endangered Cheat Mountain salamander
  6. Woodland salamander responses to prescribed burning and overstory removal
  7. Woodland salamander response to silvipasture management
  8. Aquatic salamander habitat characteristics
  9. Use of localized management to control white-tailed deer herbivory
  10. White-tailed deer as environmental risk assessment targets
  11. Snowshoe hare habitat use and home range characteristics
  12. Red spruce restoration and enhancement
  13. Oak savanna creation

Future Research

  • I will be expanding my ongoing bat research activities to encompass a greater habitat management/forest manipulation component with the aim of creating documentable Indiana bat habitat that is linked to ongoing oak management/regeneration research efforts.
  • I am exploring avenues to use the Safe Harbor and HCP processes to foster a line of both single-species and community level wildlife research activities.

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Last Modified: 11/19/2008