Tina Brunjes, Ph.D. will present the 2012 Maurice Brooks Lecture, “Elk Restoration in Kentucky,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday March 21. The lecture will be held in 316 Percival Hall on West Virginia University’s Evansdale Campus.

Brunjes has been with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources since November 2005. As the Deer and Elk Program coordinator, Brunjes is responsible for all aspects of deer and elk management statewide. Her lecture will provide an overview of the reintroduction of elk in 1997 and the management goals and challenges the Kentucky Department of Fish a Wildlife Resources faces with a herd estimated at over 10,000 individuals spread across four million acres.

She earned bachelor and master’s degrees in wildlife management from the University of Georgia and a doctorate at Texas Tech University, where she studied mule deer and white-tailed deer. She enjoys hunting ducks, turkeys, and deer.

The lecture honors the late Maurice Brooks, a professor of wildlife management in the WVU Davis College’s Division of Forestry and Natural Resources who was described by peers as a “renaissance naturalist” of the Appalachian region.

The Maurice Brooks Lectureship Series was established through gifts to the WVU Foundation, a private, non-profit corporation that generates, receives and administers private gifts for the benefit of WVU. The lecture is hosted by the Division of Forestry and Natural Resources, the Mountaineer Chapter of the Audubon Society, the Old Hemlock Foundation and the Friends of Maurice Brooks.

The lecture is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served following the presentation.

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CONTACT: David Welsh; Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design
304-293-2394, dwelsh@wvu.edu

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