Annie Farrell Email & Phone Number

Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska

• Deliver the NWTF's conservation mission to "conserve the wild turkey and preserve our hunting heritage" as the District Biologist covering Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska
• Manage all aspects of habitat conservation, enhancement and hunter access projects and monitor existing agreements, contracts, and grants
• Assist state (TPWD, ODWC, KDWP, and NGPC) and federal agencies (USFS, USFWS, and NRCS) wild turkey management efforts and Hunter R3 efforts through management planning and assistance, program delivery, and habitat.
• Work with TX, OK, KS and NE NWTF Board of Directors and wild turkey technical representatives to seek out or develop habitat and shooting sports projects to be funded through the NWTF Super Fund
• Serve as conservation policy lead in TX, OK, KS and NE and spend time working with state agency and conservation partners to monitor legislation that may impact the NWTF's mission
• Provide technical assistance to landowners and NWTF volunteers pertaining to wildlife and habitat management for wild turkeys

Texas

• Manage habitat enhancement and hunter access projects across East and North-Central Texas
• Monitor existing agreements, contracts, and grants that enable continued service to our partners
• Work closely with state and federal agencies, NGOs, private consulting companies, contractors, and private landowners to accomplish goals of conserving habitat and preserving hunting heritage
• Assist District Biologists with wild turkey management efforts and Hunter R3 efforts through management planning and assistance, program delivery, and habitat project design and implementation

Pinedale, Wyoming

• Conducted belt transect surveys for pygmy rabbits around energy development sites
• Performed data entry using Trimble GPS unit
• Deployed and reviewed trail cameras
• Navigated using paper maps and GPS, worked alone and hiked 10-16 miles/day in sagebrush ecosystem

Starkville, Mississippi

• Planned and executed a research project examining the landscape ecology of eastern wild turkeys in Mississippi
• Constructed a statewide habitat suitability assessment and evaluated landscape-abundance relationships for wild turkey using ArcGIS v10.2, Biomapper 4.0, Maximum Entropy, Program R, and FRAGSTATS 4.2
• Collected and genetically analyzed tissue samples from hunter-harvested turkeys using DNA extraction, polymerase chain reaction, and gel electrophoresis
• Performed statewide genetic analyses using programs GeneMarker, GENALEX 6.4, GenePop v1.2, and Circuitscape v4.0
• Worked cooperatively with state and federal agency biologists, other universities, private stakeholders, and industry partners
• Supervised 1 employee

Atlanta, Georgia

• Conducted threatened and endangered species surveys, water quality surveys, and general ecology surveys in urban and rural environments
• Wrote Protected Species Survey Reports, Environmental Resources Survey and Assessment of Effects Reports, and Compensatory Mitigation reports
• Reviewed Protected Species Survey Reports for Indiana Bat, Gray Bat, and Northern Long-eared Bat, and Environmental Resources Survey and Assessment of Effects Reports

Jeffrey City, Wyoming

• Performed avian, reptile, small mammal, and Greater Sage-grouse pellet line transect surveys
• Searched for songbird nests in sagebrush steppe ecosystems
• Recorded field logs of work, daily data entry in Excel
• Conducted vegetation sampling with line transects and adjacent to songbird nests

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Fisheries And Wildlife

Master Of Science (Ms), Wildlife, Fisheries, And Aquaculture Science