WAG Quarterly Meeting

Our guest speaker is Scott Summers. Scott was born/raised in central Texas-Copperas Cove. He attended Southwest Texas State-San Marcos, earning a B.S. in Wildlife Biology focusing on field biology. Scott began career in south Texas managing a private quail hunting retreat where he focused his work conserving native grassland habitat with fire, brush control, food plots and flash grazing cattle. He came to Fort Cavazos as a Natural Resources Branch seasonal black-capped vireo field biologist in 1997, was promoted (1999) to a permanent field biologist focused on trapping nest parasitic brown-headed cowbirds and working for their prescribed fire program.
Scott was promoted again in 2015 to outreach coordinator for the Natural Resources Branch. The year (a reduction in force year) he earned that promotion; his old position was combined with the duties of outreach. Scott remains a cowbird trapper and advanced wildland firefighter helping with fires to help maintain Army training lethality by saving time/money protecting expensive target arrays from wildfires while enhancing fire dependent grasslands and protection of late succession woodland habitat, a necessity for Army training realism.
Program Title: Cowbird Control: Delisting, delisted, and post-delisting. Where do we go