Jon D. Bates Rangeland Ecologist U.S. Department of Agriculture, ARS Range Ecology Research

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Bates is a Rangeland Ecologist with U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service in Burns, Oregon. He received his BS (1984) in Agricultural Business Management at Cornell, his MS (1989) in Agricultural Economics from Oregon State University, and PhD (1996) in Rangeland Management from Oregon State University. He served a two year post-doctoral at Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center from 1997 to 1999. He joined the research group at the Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center in 1999 . Current research is focused in three general areas; response of sagebrush steppe to altered precipitation patterns, management and plant community restoration in juniper woodlands, and native seed production dynamics and harvesting.