Nate Hooven (he/him)

Mammal ecologist & PhD student @MSEC_WSU studying forestry impacts on snowshoe hares. Interested in wildlife habitats and movement. Science should be for all!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

Bunny release timeline cleanse

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

Haven’t been posting here much but if you want an abundance of hare photos/release videos I keep current over on Instagram! https://t.co/Img6ppLphY

[Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife @WDFW]

Hemorrhagic disease confirmed in wild rabbit in Island County
https://t.co/UnYksQA4RX

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@GSouchay @MustelidMay I believe it! There are a lot of tiny ones out there

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

This is the cutest thing that I’ve ever trapped (baby snowshoe hare)

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@GSouchay @MustelidMay I did not, guessing it was around 250 grams based on some other similar sized ones that we’ve handled!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@cooperjab4 @RaysBaseball Isaac’s Isthmus

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

Mid-June snow from last week. I’ll miss it when it’s in the 80s up there this week

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@KeevilMatthew They’re unstoppable

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

Can anyone confirm that this looks like porcupine damage? About 5 feet up a young lodgepole pine. I’ve never seen a single porcupine at my field sites and hear from everyone that they’re exceedingly rare, so this is a bit of a mystery.

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@MarvinGunz Pronouns are an important part of speech MARVIN

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@BeekeeperEric I didn’t know that! Surprised not to see this damage more often with the squirrel population we’ve got. Makes way more sense than a ghost porky!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@KeevilMatthew Wow, they definitely stripped most of the bark off!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@KrisSabbi That’s good to know!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@crwinsor That makes sense!

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@dave_keiter It totally could, this instance was pretty isolated aside from a fee other nearby trees.

[Michel T. Kohl, PhD @micheltkohl]

PLEASE SHARE: Come study swamp bears in S. GA and the Okefenokee NWR! We are hiring a black bear PhD student (Aug | Jan Start) to be part of a multi-student/postdoc effort to estimate spatial distribution/abundance of bears. Plenty of opportunity for student-led questions.

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

I'm hiring technicians to help catch/monitor snowshoe hares again this summer! Join the crew and work in a beautiful place and with an amazing species. Please share with anyone who may be interested. #WildlifeJobs

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

Back at it catching snowshoe hares for my PhD!

[USFWS News @USFWSNews]

Big news for imperiled wildlife!

Over $62 million in Inflation Reduction Act funding will be used to address recovery planning for over 300 threatened and endangered species. https://t.co/CUTHKivq2e

#EndangeredSpeciesDay

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

@BenCAugustine I like that! Haha

[Nate Hooven (he/him) @NDHooven]

NEW PAPER: Led by (Twitterless) Kate Williams, we document a case of spinal malformation in a newborn elk calf from KY; to our knowledge this has never been reported in this species before. A thread 1/ (CW: dead animal)