Surveyors seek species at southern Oklahoma WMA
Knowing what species are present in a particular area is important both now and in the future. To that end, a team from the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) is engaged in a yearlong species survey at the Cross Timbers Wildlife Management Area in Love County. The effort is being conducted by the Wildlife Diversity Program, which includes Mark Howery, a wildlife diversity biologist with ODWC. "We're not just going on bird-watching trips," Howery said. "The point is to document the presence or absence of species and their relative abundance in ways that can be repeated over time to detect broad changes in populations." He said surveyors ideally could return in 10 or 20 years to the same area to see whether they find any dramatic differences ...