Contributors

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Moriah Boggess

Moriah Boggess is a deer biologist and land management consultant who works with private landowners on habitat, deer population, and food plot management across the Mid‑South and Southeast. He has more than a decade of experience in land and habitat management, including work with state wildlife agencies and private consulting.  His past roles include Deer Biologist positions with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, where he focused on deer research, population monitoring, policy, and disease surveillance. He has also worked as a wildlife biologist and habitat technician in both university and research settings, as well as an aerial herbicide operations manager using spray drones for forestry and habitat work.

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Bonner Powell

Bonner Powell is a wildlife biologist who serves as a biologist on the Wildlife Investments team, working on land, wildlife, and habitat projects, including forest and food plot management.   Often appearing in Wildlife Investments’ outreach content, explaining how landowners can improve habitat quality and hunting opportunities.  Bonner has an extensive background as a wildlife biologist, including experience with state wildlife agency private-lands programs before joining Wildlife Investments.   His work and graduate research have involved food plot species, deer habitat, and old-field/early successional cover, which he now applies in consulting and media for Wildlife Investments. 

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Dr. Brady Self

Dr. Andrew Brady Self is an Extension Professor in the Department of Forestry at Mississippi State University. He specializes in hardwood and pine silviculture, forest herbicides, beginning forestry, and timber harvest practices.

https://www.forestry.msstate.edu/people/abs3
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Dr. Bronson Strickland

Dr. Bronson Strickland is a wildlife biologist who specializes in white‑tailed deer management and ecology. He works at Mississippi State University as the St. John Family Professor of Wildlife Management and serves as an Extension Wildlife Specialist, He co-directs the Deer Ecology and Management Lab (often called the MSU Deer Lab), which focuses on applied deer research.

https://extension.msstate.edu/directory/dr-bronson-strickland

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Dr. Marcus Lashley

Dr. Marcus Lashley is a professor of wildlife ecology and game management at the University of Florida, working extensively on deer, wild turkey, and habitat management. He focuses on how land and fire management practices affect game species and their populations.

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Dr. Mark McConnell

Dr. Mark McConnell is an upland game bird biologist and quail habitat specialist who serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Aquaculture at Mississippi State University, where he focuses on bobwhite quail ecology, habitat restoration, and conservation in working agricultural landscapes. He is widely regarded for his research on bobwhite quail and upland birds and for his outreach to landowners, hunters, and conservation organizations across the Southeast.

https://www.fwrc.msstate.edu/people/mdm380

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