Fire and Deer

Craig A. Harper, Ph.D.

Professor and Extension Wildlife Specialist, School of Natural Resources, University of Tennessee

Dr. Craig Harper is a Professor of Wildlife Management and the Extension Wildlife Specialist in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Tennessee, where he has worked since 1998. He is responsible for training and developing wildlife management programs for UT Extension and other natural resource professionals. Craig’s Extension programming is driven by information learned with his graduate students through his research program, which concentrates on the effects of and wildlife response to applied land management practices designed to improve habitat for various wildlife species. Craig has published more than 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, books, manuals, and Extension publications related to his work. Craig routinely gives seminars, participates with state wildlife agency inservice training, and provides land management recommendations for wildlife throughout the eastern US. Craig recently was honored with the Deer Management Career Achievement Award by The Deer Committee of the Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society.

Mark A. Turner, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor and Wildlife Extension Specialist, Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Oklahoma State University

Dr. Mark Turner is an Assistant Professor and Wildlife Extension Specialist in the Department of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Oklahoma State University. Mark received a B.S. in Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology from N.C. State University, an M.S. in Wildlife Sciences from Auburn University, and a Ph.D. in Natural Resources from the University of Tennessee. Mark’s research and Extension programming focuses on applied habitat management practices including prescribed fire, forest stand improvement, and nonnative species control.

Kip Adams

Chief Conservation Officer, National Deer Association

Kip Adams is a certified wildlife biologist and the National Deer Association’s Chief Conservation Officer.  Kip received his B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from the Pennsylvania State University and his M.S. in Wildlife from the University of New Hampshire. He worked as a wildlife biologist for the Florida Game and Fish Commission and as the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department’s deer and bear project leader prior to his employment with the Quality Deer Management Association (now NDA) in 2002.  Kip wrote the Whitetail Wisdom column for Quality Whitetails for 19 years, has authored chapters in five books, has given over 750 presentations on deer and habitat management, and has provided whitetail content for numerous television shows.  Kip is the vice-chairman of the Pennsylvania Prescribed Fire Council and has used prescribed fire for over 30 years.

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