Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management
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Robert Giles, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, retired from Virginia Tech in 1998. He worked there for 35 years, teaching courses in wildlife techniques, systems ecology, integrated vertebrate pest management, and man and environment (College of Architecture). His curriculum vitae and list of graduate student theses for which he was major professor is available. While there, he won the Wine Award for teaching successes.
He began wildlife work as a teenager, winning national awards then. He attended Virginia Tech and obtained a degree in forestry. As an undergraduate he was president of the Corps of Cadets, edited the forestry club annual, started and edited a student agricultural magazine, and was named campus man of the year. He worked for the US Forest Service in Oakridge, Oregon in the summer of 1952. He received a MS in wildlife biology under Dr. Jim Lindzey. In that project he began computer analyses of his data using the wired-board computers of the day.
After basic infantry officers training and qualifying as an Army Ranger at Ft. Benning, he joined the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries and was responsible for a wide variety of activities throughout four wildlife management units and cooperatively with two Districts of the George Washington National Forest out of Covington, Virginia. Dissatisfied with his knowledge and abilities he left Virginia and attended The Ohio State University working on an Atomic Energy Commission-funded project under Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit Leader Dr. Tony J. Peterle on the effects of radio-sulfur labeled Malathion insecticide on a forested area of the Muskingum Watershed Conservancy, Dover, Ohio.
After graduation he joined the faculty of the University of Idaho, College of Forestry, Wildlife and Range Science, Moscow Idaho. There he taught wildlife techniques, big game management, and notable graduate seminars and began work with computer applications beyond statistical analyses.
He edited one edition of the Wildlife Society "techniques manual", wrote a principles textbook (1978), and another principles textbook translated into Chinese (1994). He has been a consultant to the US Wildlife Refuge System, author of WRAP (a major wildland software unit for TVA, Norris, Tennessee), author of the first non-game plan for Virginia, chairman of the Blacksburg Planning Commission, chairman of a citizens' taskforce commenting on a National Forest plan, and (with graduate students and staff) developed the first geographic information system and first wildlife information system for the state.
He is married (50 years, 2006) and has two daughters, one in Radford, Virginia, the other in Blacksburg. In retirement he works on his web sites www.LastingForests.com and www.RuralSystem.com and continues to add to and edit this course, Modern Wild Faunal Resource System Management ... and gardens.
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