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>Contributor-J. Raymond Kessler, Jr. >Contributor-Joe Kemble >Contributor-Charles C. Mitchell
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Jim Armstrong
Jim Armstrong is an Alabama Cooperative Extension System wildlife specialist and associate professor in the Auburn University School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences who specializes in wildlife damage management and the human dimensions of wildlife management. A native of North Carolina, Jim earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Freed-Hardeman College in Tennessee (1976), his master’s in wildlife biology from Abilene Christian University in Texas (1979), and his Ph.D. in educational research and evaluation from Virginia Polytechnic and State University (1989). He joined the AU faculty as an assistant professor in 1990, working previously as a wildlife technician and wildlife biologist with the Georgia Game and Fish Division. He was promoted to associate professor in 1995. “In Alabama, wildlife damage issues are as varied as deer eating ornamental plantings around a house to coyotes killing livestock, bats in the attic to lizards in the kitchen,” he says. “Any or all of these problems may seem trivial or insignificant to one person yet extremely traumatic to another individual.” Through his research and extension efforts, Armstrong strives to help people and wildlife live in greater harmony with one another. In addition to his professional work at Auburn, which includes working with the 4-H natural resources education program, Jim raises pigeons and sometimes raises the roof as a bluegrass musician. |
