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 abstract: Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist with the Fort Collins Science
   Center
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 abstract: Kate Schoenecker is a Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist at the Fort
   Collins Science Center.
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 abstract: "Dr. Kate Schoenecker has been studying the ecology of ungulates for 26\
   \ years as a Research Wildlife Biologist at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)\
   \ Fort Collins Science Center, Colorado. She received a Master\u2019s degree from\
   \ the University of Arizona, Tucson studying desert bighorn sheep and a PhD from\
   \ Colorado State University on bison and elk grazing ecology in the Great Sand\
   \ Dunes National Park & Baca National Wildlife Refuge ecosystem. She currently\
   \ leads the Ungulate Ecology Research team, focusing on science to support bison\
   \ conservation and wild horse and burro research across the west. She\u2019s been\
   \ studying the ecology of wild horses and burros since 1999, when she was first\
   \ hired as a USGS field technician recording group composition of horse harems\
   \ in the Pryor Mountain Wild Horse Range, Montana. Her current work includes investigating\
   \ free-roaming horse competition with mule deer, and assessing mountain lion predation\
   \ on free roaming horses in Nevada, as well as assessing fine scale foraging behavior\
   \ of bison on the North rim of Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, and the Great\
   \ Sand Dunes National Park ecosystem of southern Colorado."
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email: schoeneckerk@usgs.gov hasCredential: - '@type': EducationalOccupationalCredential

 name: PhD, Colorado State University

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 name: MS, University of Arizona

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   name: Fort Collins Science Center
   url: https://www.usgs.gov/centers/fort-collins-science-center
 roleName: Supervisory Research Wildlife Biologist
 startDate: '2024-05-10T20:47:42.387961'

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 name: Research Wildlife Biologist, USGS, Fort Collins Science Center

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 name: Horse

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 name: Burro

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 name: Bison

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 name: Elk

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 name: Mule deer

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 name: Bighorn sheep

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 name: Ungulate

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 additionalType: self-claimed expertise
 name: Mountain lion

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   name: U.S. Geological Survey
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name: Kate Schoenecker, PhD url: https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kate-schoenecker