Dr. William Stone Biography

Stone, W.E. and K. Naka. 2021. 1890’s Land Grant Institutions Wildland Fire Consortium: Expanding Wildland Fire-Fighting Teams at Historically Black Colleges & Universities. 1890’s LGI Wildland Fire Consortium: Wildfire in Wildland Urban Interface A Virtual Training Summit  Mar 16, 2021 

Stone, W.E. and K. Naka. 2021. Prescribed Burn Training at AAMU featuring videos of a fire at WTARS Feb 24, 2021. 1890’s LGI Wildland Fire Consortium: Wildfire in Wildland Urban Interface A Virtual Training Summit  Mar 17, 2021 

J. M. Nemati and W. E. Stone. 2021. BAT COMMUNITY SPECIES RICHNESS, DIVERSITY, AND CONDITION TRENDS AT STREAM SITES IN BANKHEAD NATIONAL FOREST FROM 2009 TO 2019. Annual STEM Day at AAMU April 2021. 

Knight, Patience, H.A. Czech, and W.E. Stone. Re-submitted 2020. Changes in Feral Swine Activity in Response to Prescribed Burning in the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama. 

  MANUSCRIPT to Journal of Wildlife Management 

Stone., W.E. 2019. Review of Status of Alabama Bats. Annual Meeting of Alabama Bat Working Group, Dec 12, 2019, AAMU Campus, Normal, AL. 

Knight, Patience, H.A. Czech, and W.E. Stone. submitted 2019. Changes in Feral Swine Activity in Response to Prescribed Burning in the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama. 

  MANUSCRIPT to Journal of Wildlife Management 

Stone, W.E. 2019. Activities of the AAMU FireDawgs. Fire Diversity Summit, Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA. Feb. 25, 2019 

Stone, Matthew J. and W.E. Stone. 2018. Response of Body Condition Index for Eastern Red Bat (Lasiurus borealis) to Arrival of a Mortality Agent of Commensal Cave Bat Species on the Bankhead National Forest. Annual Meeting of Alabama Bat Working Group, Dec 4, 2018, Decatur, AL Wheeler NWR. 

Stone, William E. 2017. Eastern Small-Footed Bat: Myotis leibii. Pages 333-334 In: Alabama Wildlife: Conservation Status and Life Histories of Rare, Threatened and Endangered Nongame Wildlife in Alabama 2004-2014 Volume 5. (Edited by Ericha Shelton-Nix). ALDCNR Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries Division. Montgomery, Alabama. University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa. 

McGinnis, Jazmin A., William E. Stone and Helen A. Czech. 2017. Diets of River Otters (Lontra candaensis) in northern Alabama determined from Stomach Contents Analysis. Poster Presentation. AAMU STEM Annual Conference, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL April 19, 2017. 

Billings Jessica. B., Helen Czech, Dr. William Stone. 2017.Surveys for the Appalachian Cottontail, the American Pygmy Shrew, and other uncommon small mammals in North Alabama and the Bankhead National Forest. Poster Presentation. AAMU STEM Annual Conference, Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL April 19, 2017. 2nd place poster prize. 

Stone, William E. 2016. Bat Community Responses to Upstream Forest Thinning and Burning.  

     Southeast Bat Diversity Network and Colloquium of Southeastern Mammalogists Annual  

     Conference. Guntersville, AL Feb. 18, 2016. 

Stone, William E. 2016. Population Responses of Small and Medium-sized Mammals in  

     Streamside Forest Buffers to Forest Thinning and Burning Treatments Conducted in  

     Upstream Watersheds. Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Conference.  

     Andalusia, AL April. 14-15, 2016. 

Stone, W.E., D. Lawson, J. Finklea, J. Isabelle, and C. Tucker. 2015. Alabama A&M  

     University FireDawgs: a Wildland Fire Fighting Team based at a Historically Black  

     University. Poster Presentation at the Society of American Foresters National Convention, 

     Baton Rouge, LA, Nov. 3-6, 2015. 

Lawhorn, A., H.A. Czech, A.B. Bohlman, and W.E. Stone. 2015. The Effects of Prescribed  

     Burning on Water Quality in Ephemeral Streams at Lake Guntersville State Park, AL. 

     Poster Presentation at the Society of American Foresters National Convention, 

     Baton Rouge, LA, Nov. 3-6, 2015. 

Burns, Kris, William E. Stone, and Jeanette Jones. 2016. IDENTIFICATION, ISOLATION,  

     AND CONTROL AGENTS OF PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS:  

     PRELIMINARY RESULTS. The Wildlife Society, Raleigh, NC, Sept. 2016. 

Burns, Kris, William E. Stone, and Jeanette Jones. 2016. IDENTIFICATION, ISOLATION,  

     AND CONTROL AGENTS OF PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS:  

     PRELIMINARY RESULTS. Southeast Bat Diversity Network and Colloquium of  

     Southeastern Mammalogists Annual Conference. Guntersville, AL Feb. 18, 2016. 

Burns, Kris, William E. Stone, and Jeanette Jones. 2016. IDENTIFICATION, ISOLATION,  

     AND CONTROL AGENTS OF PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS:  

     PRELIMINARY RESULTS. STEM Day, Alabama A&M University. Normal, AL Apr. 14,  

     2016. 2nd place prize 

Knight, Patience, H.A. Czech, and W.E. Stone. 2017. Changes in Feral Swine Activity in  

     Response to Prescribed Burning in the William B. Bankhead National Forest. The Wildlife  

     Society, 24th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM, Sept. 14-15, 2017. 

Knight, Patience, H.A. Czech, and W.E. Stone. 2016. Changes in Feral Swine Activity in  

     Response to Prescribed Burning in the William B. Bankhead National Forest, Alabama:   

     Preliminary results. Alabama Chapter of The Wildlife Society, Annual Conference.  

     Andalusia, AL April 14-15, 2016. 

Czech, H. A., A. A. Bohlman, W. B. Sutton, W. E. Stone SURVEYS IN NORTH ALABAMA  

     FOR THE AMERICAN PYGMY SHREW WITH NEW RECORDS FROM LAWRENCE  

     COUNTY, ALABAMA. Southeast Bat Diversity Network and Colloquium of Southeastern  

     Mammalogists Annual Conference. Guntersville, AL Feb. 18, 2016. 

Czech, H. A., A. A. Bohlman, W. B. Sutton, W. E. Stone New American Pygmy Shrew Records  

     on the Bakhead National Forest, Lawrence County, Alabama. Alabama Chapter of The  

     Wildlife Society, Annual Conference. Andalusia, AL, April 14-15, 2016. 

Stone, William E. and Sarah Springthorpe. 2013. Bats in China, ABWG meeting Bat Blitz” Oct. 7-11, 2013, 

Stone, William E. and M. Marowski, 2013. WNS Website Surveys. ABWG meeting Bat Blitz” Oct. 7-11, 2013, 

Stone, William E and David Morrill. 2014. Diet Composition of Wild Hogs using Stomach Contents Analysis in northern Alabama. Poster submitted to International Wild Hog Conference, Montgomery, AL 2014. 

Knight, Patience, and William E. Stone. 2014.  Wild Hog Sign            

Poster submitted to International Wild Hog Conference, Montgomery, AL 2014. 

List contracts or grants presently active or completed  

Exact Project Title (as submitted on proposal) 

Role  

(PI or CoPI) 

% Time 

Start/End Date 

Agency 

Environmental Biology at Alabama A&M University (EB@aamu)  David Morrill, Andrew Lawhorn, and Breanna Fields 

Co-PI 

5% 

Jan 2010-2016 

NSF-URM 

The Relationship of Forest Management Practice in the Bankhead National Forest 

PI 

16% 

April 2009-2015 

USDA McIntire Stennis 

The Relationship of Forest Management Practices to the Distribution of Wildlife Bioindicator Species and Feral Swine in the Bankhead National Forest 

PI 

16% 

April 2015-2020 

USDA McIntire Stennis 

USDA Forest Service Center of Excellence grant 

PI 

25% 

2015-2020 

USDA Forest Service, SRS 

Mentoring Future 21st Century Scientists in Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences -China 

Co-PI 

1% 

Aug., 2010-2016 

NSF-REU 

Strengthening the Education Pipeline for Minority Wildlife Students using Experiential Learning, Mentoring, and Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes 

PI 

16% 

March 2012-2015 

USDA-CBP 

1890’s Teaching 

Cahaba River Joint Venture (Phase VIII) 

PI 

1% 

Sep 2015 -2020 

USDA Forest Service, SRS 

Fish Gardening: 

Sustainable Aquaculture to Promote Food Production, Food Safety, Water Conservation and Water Quality on Small Farms and Limited-Resource Households 

PI 

10% 

August 2011-2015 

USDA- NIFA- Evans-Allen 

AAMU-FEWP Budget Administration 

Teaching, advisement, administration 

PI 

50% 

Aug 2014-20 

AAMU 

Targeted Infusion to Invert the Fish & Wildlife Classroom 

P.I. 

16% 

 Jan 1 2014-Aug 2017 

USDA-HBCU-UP 

Forest Research Apprenticeship 

PI 

0% 

March 2015 Aug 2020 

USDA Forest Service 

Distribution, life history, and status of Sorex hoyi (Pygmy Shrew) on the Southwestern Appalachian Escarpment  

P.I. 

1% 

 Oct. 2014- Sep 2015 

ALDCNR-USFWS 

Forest Research Apprenticeship $150,000 Phase III 

PI 

May 2020-Mar 2023 

Funded 

USDA Forest Service, Fire & Aviation Division 

1890s Land Grant Institution Wildland Fire Consortium $200,000/year for 3 years 

PI 

May 2020-Mar 2023 

Funded 

USDA Forest Service, , Fire & Aviation Division 

Effect of forest management on imperiled key habitats embedded within a forested landscape matrix ($100k) 

PI 

April 2021-2025 

@ Agency 

USDA McIntire Stennis 

Strengthening FANH Education, Research, and Extension in Forestry for Understanding and Reducing Impacts on Water Quality and Sensitive Ecosystems $600,000 

PI 

2020-2023 

Funded 

USDA NIFA CBGP