D. Mac Wilson,

Thesis:

Bird, bee, and bat community composition on licensed cannabis farms in Humboldt County, California and responses to hedgerow habitat enhancements

I graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN in 2017, and later worked on several wildlife projects, gaining interest in wildlife and working landscape in general, and the impacts of cannabis cultivation in particular. I joined the lab in 2022, and I am interested incorporating more community ecology and additional taxa (especially bees and bats) into group's research. Collaborating with farmers and the NGO Cannabis for Conservation, I'll be examining how these taxa respond to wildlife enhancements installed on small-scale sustainable cannabis farms in the Emerald Triangle.