David Stoner

Wildland Resources

Extension Assistant Professor in Human-Wildlife Interactions


David Stoner

Contact Information

Phone: 435-797-9147
Email: david.stoner@usu.edu

Educational Background

PhD, Ecology, Utah State University, 2011
MS, Wildlife Biology, Utah State University, 2004
BA, Geogrpahy, (English), University of California, 1992

    Publications | Book Chapters

  • Thacker, E., Dahlgren, D., Stoner, D., (2023). A Perspective on Rangeland and Wildlife Disciplines: Similarities Over Differences: Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation. Springer International Publishing
  • E., Dahlgren, D., Stoner, D., Clayton, M., (2023). A perspective on rangeland and wildlife disciplines: Similarities over differences. In Rangeland Wildlife Ecology and Conservation.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Fact Sheets

  • Stoner, D., (2024). You can lead a horse to water: Mapping seasonal water resources to predict wild horse movements and reduce conflict on Utah Rangelands. USU Extension

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Journal Articles

Academic Journal

  • Stoner, D., (2025). Acute drought desiccates highly used habitat and drives herbivores into irrigated croplands.
  • Stoner, D., Manlove, K., (2025). Desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni) home range and disease transmission risk responses to environmental variation in a desert landscape. Journal of Wildlife Management
  • Stoner, D., (2025). Differential effects of environmental predictability on ungulate movement behavior in disparate ecosystems.
  • Stoner, D., (2025). Dynamic riskscapes for prey: disentangling the impact of human and cougar presence on deer behavior using GPS smartphone locations.
  • Stoner, D., (2025). Long-term benefits of burns for large mammal habitat undermined by large, severe fires in the American West. Ecography
  • Stoner, D., (2025). Wild canids and felids differ in their reliance on reused travel routeways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122:40, doi: 10.1073/pnas.2401042122
  • Randolph, J., Young , J., Stoner, D., (2024). Impacts of management practices on habitat selection during juvenile mountain lion dispersal. Ecology and Evolution, doi: DOI: 10.1002/ece3.70097
  • Stoner, D., (2024). The influence of dog-friendly open spaces on wildlife habitat use and sightings: A multi-species assessment in northern California. Wildlife Biology
  • Stoner, D., (2024). Unraveling the impact of dog-friendly spaces on urban–wildland pumas and other wildlife. Wildlife Biology, doi: doi: 10.1002/wlb3.01290
  • Iacono, P., Schoemaker, K., Manlove, K., Jackson, P., Stoner, D., (2024). Evaluating Potential Mountain Lion Prey-Switching After Feral Horse Removal in a Semi-Arid Environment. Ecosphere, doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4919
  • Stoner, D., (2023). Dark roads aid movement but increase mortality of a generalist herbivore in the American Southwest. Ecosphere
  • Stoner, D., (2023). Navigating the wildland-urban interface: sensory pollution and infrastructure effects on mule deer behavior and connectivity. Basic and Applied Ecology, 73, 62-71.
  • Stoner, D., (2021). Assessing the vulnerabilities of vertebrate species to light and noise pollution: expert surveys illuminate the impacts on specialist species. Integrative and Comparative Biology, doi: doi:10.1093/icb/icab091
  • Stoner, D., (2019). Environmental Dierences between Migratory and Resident Ungulates—Predicting Movement Strategies in Rocky Mountain Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus) with Remotely Sensed Plant Phenology, Snow, and Land Cover. Remote Sensing, 11:1980, 1-15. doi: doi:10.3390/rs11171980
  • Stoner, D., (2017). Variable terrestrial GPS telemetry detection rates: Addressing the probability of successful acquisitions. Wildlife Society Bulletin, 41:2, 329-341. doi: 10.1002/wsb.758
  • Stoner, D., Roads as dynamic stressors: Physiological response of mule deer to roads differs during range residency and migration. Landscape Ecology

Professional Journal

  • Stoner, D., (2025). Refurbishing used GPS transmitters improves performance for subsequent deployments on greater sage-grouse.

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Publications | Other

An asterisk (*) at the end of a publication indicates that it has not been peer-reviewed.

Teaching

WILD 4500 - Principles of Wildlife Management, Spring 2026
WILD 4500 - Principles of Wildlife Management, Spring 2025
WILD 2400 - Wildland Resource Techniques, Fall 2024
WILD 4500 - Principles of Wildlife Management, Spring 2024
WILD 4950 - Field Techniques for Wildlife Management , Summer 2021
WILD 4750 - Monitoring and Assessment in Natural Resource and Environmental Management, Fall 2019
WILD 4750 - Monitoring and Assessment in Natural Resource and Environmental Management, Fall 2018
WILD 4750 - Inventory and Monitoring of Natural Resources, Fall 2017

Extension

Free Roaming Equid and Ecosystem Sustainability Network, 2025 - Ongoing

Graduate Students Mentored

Camille Wright, Wildland Resources, August 2025
Hannah Klugman, Wildland Resources, January 2024
Kent Hersey, Wildland Resources, March 2024 - August 2024
Melissa Chelak, Wildland Resources, June 2023 - March 2024
Peter Iacono, Wildland Resources, May 2021 - May 2023