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Phone:  662-325-5769
Email:  djones@cfr.msstate.edu

address:

Room #263, Thompson Hall
Department of Wildlife and Fisheries
Box 9652
Mississippi State, MS 39762-9652

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Education:

• Mississippi State University Ph.D., Public Policy and Administration
• Old Dominion University M.S., Biological Oceanography
• Mississippi State University M.B.A., Economics
• Mississippi State University B.S., Major - Plant Pathology

Research Interests:

• Fee-based wildlife and fisheries recreation on private lands
• Natural resources policy formulation and implementation
• Wetlands ecology, regulations and permitting, functional assessment, and mitigation
• Watershed conservation management and planning
• Coastal resources management and program development
• Agency ecological and performance Indicator development

Teaching Areas:

• Fish and Wildlife Policy and Law Enforcement

Research / Extension Websites:

• Human Dimensions and Conservation Law Enforcement Laboratory
• Natural Resource Enterprises
• Wildlife and Fisheries Economic Enterprises
• Wildlife and Fisheries Extension

Graduate Students

• Jerry Brashier
• Paul Glissen
• Adam T. Rohnke

2009
Liao, X., C. Sun, W.D. Jones, S. Pokharel. 2009. Case outcome for recreational incidents on private forest and rural land and the determinants of litagation time span. Journal of Legal Aspects of Sport 19(2):153-183.

2008
Jones, W., K.M. Jacobs, G. Yarrow, R. McPeake. 2008. Using workshops to educate landowners about developing natural resource enterprises to diversify income on the family farm. Journal of Extension 46(5). Download

2008
Pokharel, S., C. Sun, W.D. Jones, S.C. Grado, D.L. Grebner. 2008. Patterns of liability insurance coverage and incidents related to hunting and fishing in Mississippi. Pages 70-79 in Proceedings of the Southern Forest Economics Workshop 2006: Emerging Issues in Forest Economics. Download

2008
Strickland, B.K., R. Kaminski, A.T. Pearse, W.D. Jones. 2008. Catfish-duck ponds for the Mississippi Delta. Mississippi State University Extension Service Publication 2482. 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.