What have we been up to?

Fall 2025

• The Heffelfinger Research team attends the annual The Wildlife Society (TWS) Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• Dr. Heffelfinger, Ashlyn, and Bailey attend CKWRI Partners Meetings in Dallas and Ft. Worth to share more about the North Texas Research Program.
• Katie and Bailey kick off the Rolling Plains deer project by deploying cameras at Matador WMA.
• The Heffelfinger Research team attends the annual TPWD Mule Deer and Pronghorn Technical Meeting.
• Ashlyn attends the Wildlife Disease Association Conference in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Ashlyn won the WDA Terry Amundson Presentation Award!

Summer 2025

• Katie and Bailey go to Utah to kick off the Grass Valley trail camera project.
• Calvin, Ashlyn, and Dr. Heffelfinger attend the Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) Deer and Elk Workshop in B.C. Canada.

Spring 2025

• Katie Pennartz (PhD) and Austin Ibarra (MS) join the lab.
• Dr. Heffelfinger, Bailey, and Celine attend the last adult pronghorn helicopter capture for the Oklahoma pronghorn project.
• The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the second adult mule deer captures for the Oklahoma mule deer project.
• The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the inaugural CWD project captures by catching mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk in the Texas Panhandle and mule deer in the Trans-Pecos.

Part of the Heffelfinger Research Team with Jim Heffelfinger at TWS in Edmonton, AB, CA.

Calvin Ellis (PhD) presenting his poster at WAFWA Deer and Elk Workshop.

Fall 2024

• Bailey, Ashlyn, Miranda, and Calvin attend The Wildlife Society conference in Baltimore, Maryland.​
• Bailey, Ashlyn, Miranda, and Calvin assist TPWD with desert bighorn sheep translocation efforts.
• Miranda kicks off her dissertation field work.

Summer 2024

• The North Texas Research Program officially opens in Lubbock.
• Bailey Kleeberg, Ashlyn Halseth-Ellis (PhD), and Miranda Hopper (PhD) join the lab.
• Celine has a very successful pronghorn fawning season in Oklahoma.
• The Heffelfinger Research Team attends the TPWD Pronghorn & Mule Deer Technical Meeting.

Spring 2024

• Calvin starts his PhD.
• Celine Rickels (MS) joins the lab.

Calvin, Bailey, Miranda, and Ashlyn assisted TPWD on a Desert Bighorn translocation effort in the Trans-Pecos in 2024.

2023

• Calvin successfully defends his MS thesis. Congratulations!
• Calvin wins TAMUK Outstanding Range & Wildlife Science Graduate Student.
  
• Calvin Ellis (MS) is awarded the 2023 Boone & Crockett Fellow Outstanding Achievement Award.