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Title: State Wildlife Specialist
Location: Columbia, La, with statewide duties
Strategic Goal Focus: Provide programming and solutions to strengthen rural communities and ensure economic prosperity, a healthy population and flourishing institutional structures.
Based in rural Northeast Louisiana’s Caldwell Parish, Stamper travels throughout Louisiana implementing a dynamic statewide wildlife extension program. His work includes holding wildlife field days, forestry and wildlife stewardship seminars and workshops, as well as interagency and/or multi-institution collaborations, reaching stakeholders where they live and giving them the tools to manage habitats and deal with both animal and vegetative invasive species encroaching on their land.
Stamper’s mission is to create better land stewards, wildlife managers and wildlife habitat managers through research and education that will have a lasting impact on Louisiana’s natural resources.
“There’s a lot of interest in habitat management and food plots, whether it’s for whitetail deer or waterfowl. On the vegetation side, we want to train landowners on management techniques that they can eventually do themselves.”
Forestry is more than a $3 billion industry in Louisiana, and the value of wildlife and fisheries enterprises across the state exceeds $800 million annually. Stamper extension programs can grow to have global impact.
