Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences Graduate Research Facilities
The Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences provides well-equipped office space for faculty and graduate students in close proximity to the Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Building for research and teaching laboratories, classrooms and computer facilities.
The Thomas Baskett Wildlife Research and Education Area, formerly known as the Ashland Wildlife Research Area, is a 2,252-acre facility located five miles east of Ashland Missouri on Highway Y. In use since 1938, Baskett has become an integral part of the School of Natural Resources mission of teaching, research and extension. The Baskett Wildlife Area is used as an outdoor laboratory for several classes including dendrology, ornithology, and wildlife research techniques, and has been the source of over 150 research publications. For more information see: www.aes.missouri.edu/baskett/.
The University has also established the Gaylord Memorial Wildlife Research Laboratory near Puxico, Missouri. Located on the Missouri Department of Conservation's Duck Creed Wildlife Area and next to the Mingo National Wildlife Refuge, the laboratory is in the last of the Missouri Swamps.
The Missouri Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit is affiliated with the School of Natural Resources (SNR). The unit, operated through a cooperative agreement among the University of Missouri system, the Missouri Department of Conservation and the United States Department of Interior, is staffed with three department of interior scientists. These scientists are members of the University faculty, offering graduate-level courses and directing graduate student research.
SNR also maintains an extensive teaching and research collection of the vertebrate animals of Missouri and surrounding states. The bird and mammal collections contain more that 7,000 specimens. The Glen Smart waterfowl collection consists of more that 200 species of mounted waterfowl of the world. The fish collection contains about 25,000 preserved specimen, including fishes from Missouri and the Midwest; saltwater fishes from the Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coasts; and about 3,000 freshwater and saltwater fishes from Thailand.
