Bexar Audubon South Central Texas: The Equivocal Nature of Change

The Southern High Plains was the last region of the continental US that was settled. This was because of tribal people preventing settlement until the late 1870s. This also prevented any detailed understanding of the biological communities on the prairie grasslands. Once the Comanche War ended, settlement occurred so rapidly that little meaningful biological information was obtained before dramatic landscape and ecological changes took place. He will discuss what was known or can be surmised for raptor communities pre-settlement, then examine how raptor communities have changed regionally to what we see today.

Clint Boal received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Arizona and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Minnesota. He has been a US Geological Survey wildlife biologist since 2000, stationed at Texas Tech University where he holds a joint appointment as Professor of Wildlife Ecology. He supervises graduate students and has authored or co-authored over 130 journal papers, co-authored the award winning book Raptors of Texas, and co-edited 3 books. He is a past-president of The Raptor Research Foundation and has received multiple research recognitions including the Barney Rushing Jr. Outstanding Researcher Award from Texas Tech University, the Fran and Frederick Hamerstrom Award from the Raptor Research Foundation, and the Excellence in Science Award from the US Geological.

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