Contact Information

Education

BS, Oklahoma State University - Zoology/Wildlife Ecology;

MS, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Wildlife Biology and Management;

PhD, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University - Wildlife Biology and Management.

Area of Specialization

• Wildlife Ecology and Management, Forest Resource Policy.

Research Areas

Ecology and management of wildlife populations, especially in parks and urban/suburban areas; predator ecology and management; wildlife damage management; physiology, nutrition, and genetics in wildlife management.

Courses Taught

FORS / MARS 1100 Natural Resource Conservation

FORS 4320/6320 - Wildlife Physiology and Nutrition

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OVERVIEW OF FERTILITY CONTROL IN URBAN DEER MANAGEMENT - pdf

Professional Society Membership

• The Wildlife Society (Certified Wildlife Biologist, 1982)
• Wildlife Damage Management Working Group of The Wildlife Society
• Urban Wildlife Working Group of The Wildlife Society
• Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society
• Georgia Chapter of The Wildlife Society
• American Society of Mammalogists

Recent Professional Service:

Elected to the Executive Board of The Wildlife Society (4-year term: Vice-President, 2000-2001; President-Elect, 2001-2002; President, 2002-2003; Past-President, 2003-2004).

Program Chair and Editor, Proceedings of the First National Bowhunting Conference, American Archery Council, 2001-2002.

Associate Editor, Proceedings of the Second International Wildlife Management Congress, The Wildlife Society, 1999-2000.

Southeastern Section Representative (1997-2000) to The Wildlife Society Council (elected office).

Editorial Panel Member (1996-2000), The Wildlife Society Bulletin

Recent Professional Awards:

Special Award for outstanding service as President of The Wildlife Society, 2003.

Distinguished Senior Faculty Award, University of Georgia Chapter of Gamma Sigma Delta, 2001

Selected as a recipient of the University of Georgia’s Josiah Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000.

Special Award for outstanding service as Section Representative to The Wildlife Society Council, Southeastern Section of The Wildlife Society, 1999.

1998 Communication Award, Jack H. Berryman Institute, Utah State University for exemplary work focused on enhancing human-wildlife relationships through the resolution of human-wildlife conflicts by editing the special 387-page, Summer 1997 issue of The Wildlife Society Bulletin on deer overabundance.

Special Achievement Award for Outstanding Natural Resources Research, U.S. Department of Interior, National Park Service, 1997.

External Review or Expert Panel Service

Invited Member, Scientific Advisory Panel, Berryman Institute-East, College of Forest Resources, Mississippi State University; 2003-present.

Invited External Program Reviewer, Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, South Dakota State University, USDA Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; co-authored a 24-page report; 2001.

Invited Committee Member, Blue Ribbon Committee to Review Science and Technology in the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Columbia, South Carolina; co-authored a 16-page final report; 2000.

Invited External Academic Program Reviewer, Wildlife Program, Louisiana Tech University; 1998.

Books and Professional Publications, 2000-2007

Goodloe, R. B., R. J. Warren, D. A. Osborn, and C. Hall. 2000. Population characteristics of feral horses on Cumberland Island, Georgia and their management implications. J. Wildl. Manage. 64(1):114-121.

Mayer, K. E., R. C. Lund, L. P. Hansen, R. J. Warren, and H. L. Gladfelter. 2000. Review of archery equipment regulations for big game hunting in the United States. Trans. North American Wildl. Nat. Resour. Conf. 65:109-118.

Henderson, D. W., R. J. Warren, J. A. Cromwell, and R. J. Hamilton. 2000. Responses of urban deer to a 50% reduction in local herd density. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 28(4):902-910.

Henderson, D. W., R. J. Warren, D. H. Newman, J. M. Bowker, J. A. Cromwell, and J. J. Jackson. 2000. Human perceptions before and after a 50% reduction in an urban deer herd’s density. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 28(4):911-918.

Warren, R. J. 2000. Basic reproduction in male and female deer. Proc. Ann. Conf., Society for Theriogenology 2000:225-232.

Warren, R. J. 2000. Overview of fertility control in urban deer management. Proc. Ann. Conf., Society for Theriogenology 2000:237-246. (Available online at: http://www.forestry.uga.edu/warnell/faculty/html/warren.html)

Warren, R. J. 2000. Fertility control in urban deer: questions and answers. Archery Manufacturers and Merchants Organization, Comfrey, Minnesota, USA. (Available online at: http://www.archerytrade.org/publications/images/DeerFertility.pdf)

Bond, B T., M. I. Nelson, and R. J. Warren. 2000. Home range dynamics and den use of nine-banded armadillos on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 54:414-424.

Osborn, D.A., M. I. Nelson, and R. J. Warren. 2000. Armadillo diets among seasons and between habitats on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 54:282-291.

Nesbit, S. M., B. Brown, R. Bailey, and R. J. Warren. 2000. Law enforcement trends affecting Georgia’s conservation rangers. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 54:460-468.

Field, R., R. J. Warren, H. Okarma, and P. R. Sievert, editors. 2001. Wildlife, land, and people: priorities for the 21st century. Proceedings of the Second International Wildlife Management Congress. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA. 403pp.

Warren, R. J. 2001. An overview of deer control programs used in urban and suburban communities in the USA. Pages 220-223 in R. Field, R. J. Warren, H. Okarma, and P. R. Sievert, editors. 2001. Wildlife, land, and people: priorities for the 21st century. Proceedings of the Second International Wildlife Management Congress. The Wildlife Society, Bethesda, Maryland, USA.

Baker, L. A., R. J. Warren, D. R. Diefenbach, W. E. James, and M. J. Conroy. 2001. Prey selection by reintroduced bobcats (Felis rufus) on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Amer. Midl. Nat. 145:80-93.

Waddell, R. B., D. A. Osborn, R. J. Warren, J. C. Griffin, and D. J. Kesler. 2001. Prostaglandin F2%-mediated fertility control in captive white-tailed deer. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 29(4):1067-1074.

**Scofield, C. L., R. J. Warren, W. A. Flick, and D. H. Newman. 2002. A survey of urban deer policies in four southeastern states. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 56:412-420. (** - Award for Best Paper in Wildlife Policy and Law, Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies)

Warren, R. J., editor. 2002. Proceedings of the first national bowhunting conference. Archery Manufacturers and Merchants Organization, Comfrey, Minnesota, USA. 142pp.

Maehr, D. S., J. J. Larkin, K. J. Alexy, R. J. Warren, N. W. Seward, J. W. Day, T. Toman, J. J. Cox, and M. A. Orlando. 2002. Response to West et al. 2002: Graduate education should not count more toward TWS certification. Wildl. Soc. Bull. 30(3): 979-982.

Bond, B. T., R. J. Warren, and M. I. Nelson. 2002. Winter Mortality of adult nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) on Cumberland Island, Georgia. Georgia Journal of Science 60:209-215.

Jones, D. D., L. M. Conner, R. J. Warren, and G. O. Ware. 2002. The effect of supplemental prey and prescribed fire on success of artificial nests. J. Wildl. Manage. 66 (4):1112-1117.

Bowker, J. M., D. H. Newman, R. J. Warren, and D. W. Henderson. 2003. Estimating the economic value of lethal versus non-lethal deer control in suburban communities. Society and Natural Resources 16(2):143-158.

Miller, B. F., L. I. Muller, T. N. Storms, E. C. Ramsay, D. O. Osborn, R. J. Warren, K. V. Miller, and K. A. Adams. 2003. A comparison of carfentanil/xylazine and Telazol®/xylazine for immobilization of white-tailed deer. J. Wildl. Dis. 39:851-858.

Warren, R. J. 2003. The Wildlife Society and wildlife damage management professionals. Proc. Wildl. Damage Manage. Conf. 10:1-6.

Godbois, I. A., L. M. Conner, and R. J. Warren. 2003. Bobcat diet on an area managed for Northern bobwhite. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 57:222-227.

Godbois, I. A., L. M. Conner, and R. J. Warren. 2003. Habitat use of bobcats at two different spatial scales in southwestern Georgia. Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies 57:228-234.

Godbois, I. A., L. M. Conner, and R. J. Warren. 2004. Space use patterns of bobcats relative to supplemental feeding of Northern bobwhite. Journal of Wildlife Management 68(3):514-518.

Jones, D. D., L. M. Conner, T. H. Storey, and R. J. Warren. 2004. Prescribed fire and raccoon use of longleaf pine forests: possible implications for managing nest predation. Wildlife Society Bulletin 32(4):1255-1259.

Miller, B. F., L. I. Muller, T. Doherty, D. O. Osborn, K. V. Miller, and R. J. Warren. 2004. Effectiveness of antagonists tiletamine-zolazepam/xylazine immobilization in female white-tailed deer. J. Wildl. Dis. 39:147-151.

Godbois, I. A., L. M. Conner, B. D. Leopold, and R. J. Warren. 2005. The effects of diet on mass loss of bobcat scat after exposure. Wildlife Society Bulletin 33(1):149-153.  

Diefenbach, D. R., L. A. Hansen, R. J. Warren, and M. J. Conroy.  2006.  Spatial organization of a reintroduced population of bobcats:  Implications for population regulation.  J. Mamm. 87(2):394-401.

Mathiason, C. K.,  J. G. Powers, S. J. Dahmes, D. A. Osborn, K. V. Miller, R. J. Warren, G. L. Mason, S. A. Hays, J. Hayes-Klug, D. M. Seelig, M. A. Wild, L. L. Wolfe, T. R. Spraker, M. W. Miller, C. J. Sigurdson, G. C. Telling, and E. A. Hoover.  2006.  Infectious prions in the saliva and blood of deer with chronic wasting disease.  Science 314 (5796):133-136.

D’Angelo, G. J., J. G. D’Angelo, G. R. Gallagher, D. A. Osborn, K. V. Miller, and R. J. Warren.  2006.  Evaluation of wildlife warning reflectors for altering white-tailed deer behavior along roadways.  Wildl. Soc. Bull. 34 (4):1175–1183.

Killmaster, C. H., D. A. Osborn, D. A., R. J. Warren, and K. V. Miller.  2006.  Effect of roads and traffic on deer movements in a Georgia park.  Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies  60: (In Press).

Meares, J. M., B. P. Murphy, C. R. Ruth, D. A. Osborn, R. J. Warren, and K. V. Miller.  2006.  A quantitative evaluation of the Severinghaus method for estimating age of white-tailed deer.  Proc. Ann. Conf. S.E. Assoc. Fish & Wildl. Agencies  60: (In Press).

Killmaster, C. H., D. A. Osborn, D. A., R. J. Warren, and K. V. Miller.  2007.  Deer and understory plant responses to a large-scale herd reduction on a Georgia state park.  Natural Areas Journal  27(2):161-168.

D’Angelo, G. J., A. R. De Chicchis, D. A. Osborn, G. R. Gallagher, R. J. Warren, and K. V. Miller.  2007.  Hearing range of white-tailed deer as determined by auditory brainstem response.  J. Wildl. Manage. 71:1238–1242.