Sarah Lantz
SLANTZ@uwyo.edu

Background:

I am a former Sonoran-Desert native, and more recently a fly-fishing, backcountry-skiing ex-patriot in Laramie, Wyoming. I received my B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Science from the University of Arizona, and have worked on research projects in Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska, and Mexico. At present, I am a research assistant in the Wyoming Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, University of Wyoming, advised by Dr. Stanley Anderson. We are collaborating with Dr. Conway on a demography study of Burrowing Owls in Wyoming, and I am working on her Master’s thesis: “Nest-Site Selection by Burrowing Owls in Plague-Affected Colonies of Black-Tailed Prairie Dogs in Northeastern Wyoming.” My research interests include testing the assumptions of models of resource selection in animals, examining how changes in land use affect the distribution and survival of animal populations through time, and exploring effective methods of cooperation with private landowners to promote conservation.

• Lantz, S. J., C. J. Conway, and S. H. Anderson.  2007.  Multi-scale habitat selection by burrowing owls in black-tailed prairie dog colonies.  Journal of Wildlife Management 71:in press.

• Lantz, S. 2005. Nesting ecology and habitat selection of western burrowing owls (Athene cunicularia hypugae) in the Thunder Basin National Grassland, Northeastern Wyoming. MS Thesis, Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY.