Steve Winter
Office: 467 Ag Hall
Address: 008c Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74075
Phone: (405) 744-8533
Fax: (405) 744-3530
Email: stephen.winter@okstate.edu
Degree Program
  Ph.D. Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Specialization in Rangeland Ecology and Management
Research Topic:
  The Interaction of Fire and Grazing in Oklahoma Grasslands
Education
BS: University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1994
MS: Kansas State Universtiy, 1999
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Curriculum Vitae  
Research Interests:
The ecology, management and restoration of Great Plains grasslands.
Presentations:
Winter, Doxon, Fuhlendorf, Davis and Leslie. 2008. Patch-burn grazing research in sand sagebrush prairie of northwest Oklahoma. Paper presented at the 2008 joint Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Society for Range Management and the Oklahoma Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Lawton, OK.
 
Winter, Fuhlendorf, Davis and Leslie. 2008. Patch-burn grazing in Oklahoma Sand Sage Prairie. Paper presented at the Patch-burn Grazing Working Group Annual Meeting; Aurora, NE.
 
Winter, Hickman, Fuhlendorf and Leslie. 2007. Biomass allocation of a prairie forb in a 
patch-burn landscape. Paper presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the 
Southwestern Association of Naturalists; Stephenville, Texas.
 

Winter, Fuhlendorf, Davis and Leslie. 2007. Effects of prescribed fire on sand sagebrush at the Hal and Fern Cooper Wildlife Management Area. Paper presented at the Bollenbach Wildlife Symposium and Annual Meeting of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Wildlife Society; Woodward, OK.
 

Winter and Fuhlendorf. 2007. Density and structure of Oklahoma sand sagebrush in a patch-burned landscape. Paper presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Range Management; Reno, Nevada.

Winter and Fuhlendorf. 2009. A new patch burn-grazing study in Nebraska. Presentation at the Patch Burn-grazing Working Group Annual Meeting; Lamoni, IA.
Winter. 2009. An introduction to patch burn-grazing. Presentation at the Southeast Nebraska Plant Identification Workshop; Steinauer, NE.

Winter. 2009. Invasive species research at Oklahoma State University. Presentation at the 5 Rivers Weed Management Area meeting; Tecumseh, NE.

Recent Publications (since 2000)
Winter, S. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2007. Burrowing owl associations with black-tailed prairie dog colonies in southwest Kansas and southeast Colorado. Prairie Naturalist. 39:69-75.

Winter, S. L. and J. F. Cully, Jr. 2005. Lack of brown-headed cowbird nest parasitism in a short grass region. Prairie Naturalist 37:43-45.

Winter, S.L, J. F. Cully, Jr. and J. S. Pontius. 2003. Avian communities of prairie dog colonies and non-colonized areas in shortgrass prairie. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science. 106(3-4):129-138.

Winter, S.L, J. F. Cully, Jr. and J. S. Pontius. 2002. Vegetation of prairie dog colonies and non-colonized shortgrass prairie. Journal of Range Management 55:502-508.

Winter, S. L. and R. E. Charlton. 2000. Rediscovery of Wooly Milkweed, Asclepias Lanuginosa Nutt. (Asclepiadaceae), Saline County, and Management Considerations. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 103:185-190.

Winter, S. L., R. E. Charlton and J. F. Cully. 2000. A new county breeding record for black-billed magpies: symptom of habitat changes in a grassland landscape. Bulletin of the Kansas Ornithological Society 51:25-28.

Cully, J. F. and S. L. Winter. 2000. Evaluation of land condition trend analysis on a Kansas military training site. Environmental Management. 25:625-633.

Winter, S. L., J. F. Cully, Jr., and J. S Pontius. 1999.  Influence of prairie dogs on vegetation in Kansas shortgrass prairie. Pp 375-379 In:  J. Thorpe, T. Steeves, and M. Gollop (eds.). Proceedings of the Fifth Prairie Conservation and Endangered Species Conference, Saskatchewan. Natural History Occasional Paper No. 24. Provincial Museum of Alberta.

Griebel, R. L., S. L. Winter, and A. A. Steuter. 1998. Grassland birds and habitat structure in sandhills prairie managed using cattle or bison plus fire. Great Plains Research 8:255-268.

Ekstein, J. D., K. A. Hansen, and S. L. Winter. 1993. Cowbird parasitism of red-winged blackbirds in prairie and riparian forest locations. Prairie Naturalist 25:276.