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W. Mark Ford
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Academic Interests:
Wildlife habitat interactions (forest management and prescribed fire), white-tailed deer management, ecology and management of bats, non-volant small mammals and woodland salamanders, and high-elevation/relict forest management and restoration in the Appalachians.
Experience:
Post-doctoral Research Associate, University of Georgia and USDA Forest Service, Savannah River Site, 1994-1995
Wildlife Biologist and Ecosystem Research Forest Administrator, Westvaco Forest Resources, 1995-1999
Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 1999-2009
Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, 2009-2010
Professional Achievements:
Certified Wildlife Biologist, The Wildlife Society, 1998
Young Alumnus of the Year, School of Forest Resources, Univ. of Georgia, 2000
Associate Editor, Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2000-2002
USDA Forest Service Senior Leaders Program , 2005-2006
Editor (with M.T. Griep and B.C. Chapman), The Land Manager’s Guide to Mammals of the South. 2007. USDA Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy, Durham, NC. 546 p.
Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Best Paper Award (with M. R. Schimacher, S.B. Castleberry and K.V. Miller), 2007
Nongame Program Chair, the Wildlife Society Southeastern Section., 2009-present
Recent and Ongoing Activities:
Effects of a hierarchal and spatially differential disruption of roosts and roost areas on non-random assorting (social) dynamic in bats - Fernow Experimental Forest, West Virginia and Fort Knox, Kentucky
Assessing white-nose Syndrome impacts to a bat community using acoustical and radio-telemetry methodologies – Fort Drum, New York
Evaluating Ecological Threats Under Climate Change – CONUS Department of Defense Installations (Army emphasis)
Occupancy and detection modeling for the Virginia and Carolina northern flying squirrel – West Virginia and North Carolina
Experimental approaches to red spruce release and restoration – Monongahela National Forest, Kumbrabow State Forest and Canaan Valley NWR, West Virginia
Selected Publications:
Francl, K.E., W.M. Ford, D.W. Sparks and V. Brack. 2012. Capture and reproductive trends of summer bat communities in West Virginia: assessing the impacts of white-nose syndrome. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management (In Press)
Johnson, J.B., J.W. Edwards and W.M. Ford. 2012. Nocturnal activity patterns of northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) during the maternity season in West Virginia (USA). Acta Chiropterologica 13:391-397
Johnson, J.B., W.M. Ford and J.W. Edwards. 2012. Roost networks of northern myotis (Myotis septentrionalis) in a managed landscape. Forest Ecology and Management 266:223-231).
Kolodzinski, J.J., L.V. Tannebaum, D.A. Osborn, M.C. Conner, W.M. Ford and K.V. Miller. 2010. Effects of GPS sampling intensity on home range analyses. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 64:13-17.
Ford, W.M., E.R. Britzke, C.A. Dobony, J.L. Rodrigue and J.B. Johnson. 2011. Patterns of acoustical activity of bats prior to and following White-nose Syndrome occurrence. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 2:125-134.
Johnson, J.B., M.A. Menzel, J.W. Edwards, W.M. Ford and J.T. Petty 2010. Spatial and predictive foraging models for gray bats in northwest Georgia. Proceedings of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies 64:61-67.
Crimmins, S.M., J.W. Edwards, W.M. Ford, P.D. Keyser and J.M. Crum 2010. Browsing patterns of white-tailed deer following increased timber harvest and a decline in population density. International Journal of Forestry Research . doi:10.1155/2010/592034 7 p.
Johnson, J.B., W.M. Ford, J.W. Edwards, J.L. Rodrigue and C.L. Johnson. 2010. Indiana bat day-roosts in burned areas in the central Appalachians. Journal of Fish and Wildlife Management 1:111-121.
Ford, W.M., K.R. Moseley, C.W. Stihler and J.W. Edwards. 2010. Area occupancy and detection probabilities of the Virginia northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus fuscus) using nest-box surveys. Pages 37-47 in J.S. Rentch and T.M. Schuler (eds). Proceedings from the Conference on the Ecology and Management of High Elevation Forests in the Central and Southern Appalachian Mountains. USDA Forest Service General Technical Report NRS-P-64.
Johnson, J.B., W.M. Ford, J.W. Edwards and M.A. Menzel. 2010. Bat community structures within riparian areas of northwestern Georgia, USA. Folia Zoologica 59:192-202.
Rentch, J.S., T.M. Schuler, G.J. Nowacki, N.R. Beane and W.M. Ford. 2010. Canopy gap dynamics of second-growth red spruce-northern hardwood stands in West Virginia. Forest Ecology and Management 260:1921-1929.
Ford, W.M., J.L. Rodrigue, E.L. Rowan, S.B. Castleberry, and T.M Schuler. 2010.
Woodland salamander response to two prescribed fires in the central Appalachians. Forest Ecology and Management 260:1003-1009.
Miller, B.F., R. DeYoung, T.A. Campbell, B.R. Laseter, W.M. Ford and K.V. Miller. 2010. Fine-scale genetic and social structuring of a central Appalachian deer herd. Journal of Mammalogy. 91:681-689.
Miller, B.F., T.A. Campbell, B.R. Laseter, W.M. Ford and K.V. Miller. 2010. A test of localized management for reducing white-tailed deer herbivory in central Appalachian regeneration sites. Journal of Wildlife Management 74:370-378.
Email: wmford@vt.edu
Last updated February 1, 2012