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Phone:  662-325-2219
Email:  jjones@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Rm# 275, Thompson Hall
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Box 9690
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9690

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Education:

• Mississippi State University Ph.D., Wildlife Ecology
• Mississippi State University M.S., Major - Wildlife Ecology
• University of Southern Mississippi B.S., Major - Biology
• University of Arizona Illustration Training, Scientific Illustration/Photography

Research Interests:

• Habitat evaluation and management
• Reclamation and vegetative succession on ecologically-disturbed lands
• Ecological impacts of agronomic plant species on native plant diversity and community development
• Management and restoration of ecosystems with emphasis on conservation of native biological diversity, icluding protected and listed species
• Ecotourism and economic values of game and nongame wildlife and "un-perturbed" ecosystems

Teaching Areas:

• Wildlife Habitat Management

Honors / Professional Activities:

• 2006 Mississippi Wildlife Federation Wildlife Conservationist of the Year
• 2005 Integrated Natural Resources Management Team Group Achievement Award, John C. Stennis Space Center
• 2004 Mississippi CASE professor of the year

Research / Extension Websites:

• Agro-wildlife ecology and management
• Forest and Wildlife Management
• Non-game Management
• Waterfowl and Wetland Ecology and Management
• Wildlife Habitat Restoration/Monitoring

Graduate Students

• Jerry Brashier
• Katherine Edwards
• Heather Fleming
• Dawn Manning
• Aaron Posner
• Clinton Smith
• Nathan Stukey

2008
Prevost, J.D., D.L. Grebner, J.C. Jones, S.C. Grado, K.L. Belli, J.D. Byrd. 2008. Evaluation of cogongrass control techniques for nonindustrial private landowners in Mississippi. Pages 188-193 in Proceedings of the Southern Forest Economics Workshop 2007: Global Change and Forestry: Economic and Policy Implications. Download

2008
Sumerall, D.C., D.L. Grebner, J.C. Jones, K.L. Belli, S.C. Grado, R.P. Maiers. 2008. Measuring the biological and economic effects of wildlife herbivory on afforested carbon sequestration sites in the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley. Page 207 in Proceedings of the Southern Forest Economics Workshop 2007: Global Change and Forestry: Economic and Policy Implications. Download abstract

2007
Hamrick, R., L.W. Burger Jr., J. Jones, B. Strickland. 2007. Native warm season grass restoration in Mississippi. Mississippi State University Extension Service, Publication 2435. Download

2007
Hussain, A., I.A. Munn, S.C. Grado, B.C.West, W.D. Jones, J.Jones. 2007. Hedonic analysis of hunting lease revenue and landowner willingness to provide fee-access hunting. Forest Science 53(4):493-506.

2007
Munn, I.A., A. Hussain, J.D. Byrd, S.C. Grado, J.C. Jones, W.D. Jones, E.K. Loden, J.E. Miller, B.C. West. 2007. Landowner involvement and attitudes: Fee access wildlife and fisheries recreation. Forest and Wildlife Research Center, Research Bulletin FO332, Mississippi State University. 30 pp. Download