Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is a research communication competition. The 7th Annual East Foundation Three Minute Thesis competition will be held this year at the TWA Private Land Summit on July 11th, 2024. We hope to see you there!

The Texas Wildlife Association (TWA), our valued partner, celebrates 39 years of promoting effective habitat conservation and responsible hunting through private land stewardship at its annual convention, WildLife 2024, on July 11-14 in San Antonio.

No matter your brand or mission, chances are you will find your audience at The Wildlife Society’s Annual Conference. They regularly have attendees from all 50 U.S. states, several Canadian provinces, sovereign tribes, and beyond. Their attendees are researchers, executives, technicians, professors, land managers, decision-makers, policy analysts, statisticians, students, and more.

Competition occurs through resource exploitation and direct interference between individuals/species. We used deer GPS data around an experimental cattle introduction to separate these mechanisms. Evaluating deer movement for 30 days before/after, too brief for resource impacts, we used home range size as a proxy for habitat quality degradation beyond forage loss from cattle interference competition.

In this spring issue of our newsletter, read about the inauguration of the Tom Lea Trail Mobile Tour in Hebbronville, 10 years of Behind the Gates, our prescribed fire project on the El Sauz Ranch, and ocelot trapping efforts this year. 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the nonprofit East Foundation have reached an agreement that would allow for the release of endangered ocelots on private lands in South Texas. The safe harbor agreement allows landowners to continue with ranching operations in exchange for allowing recovery efforts on their land.