Anna Caldwell
Dry Prong,LA
Overview
2
2
years of professional experience
Work History
Student Worker
Joshua Adams
Louisiana Tech University
07.2024 - Current
- Cruising sweetgum stands- measuring live crown heights for research
- Collecting leaf samples of different white oak species for research
- Maintenance, such as cutting and removing fallen trees and weedeating
- Cleaning/organizing the labs
- Driving the university vehicles to lab locations and other student events
- Grading leaf collections for Dendrology classes
- ARU song meter maintenance
Intern
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
Shirey Bay Rainey Brake WMA
05.2025 - 08.2025
- Feral hog trapping
- Mixing herbicide and spot spraying woody/undesirable species in upland and lowland field systems and moist soil units
- Laying polypipe for moist-soil unit irrigation.
- Wood duck and Canada goose banding.
- Clearing fallen trees using a chainsaw and tractor
- Pulling and backing trailers
- Moist soil plant identification.
- Bush hogging levees.
Summer Project: Plant survey of three different habitat types on the WMA (Early successional upland, moist soil unit, and green tree reservoir) comparing the diversity between each habitat type using Shannon’s Diversity Index.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Forestry- Wildlife Habitat Management
Louisiana Tech University
Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La05-2026
Skills
- Prescribed burning (5 different burns assisted with)
- Southeastern tree/plant species identification
- Southeastern wildlife species identification
- Habitat assessment
- White-tailed deer jawbone aging
- CWD testing
Equipment
- Loggers tape
- Clinometer
- BAF prism
- Compass
- Drip torch
- Densiometer
- Robel pole
- 145 hp tractor
- ATV
- UTV
- Chainsaw
- Weedeater
- ARU song meter
- Game camera
- Boom and boomless sprayer
- Trailers
Volunteer Work
- Wood duck box set up with Quail Forever at Lincoln Parish Park
- Wood duck box check and maintenance with Quail forever at Lincoln Parish Park
- Booth working for Red River National Wildlife Refuge wildlife celebration event
- Deer management at the LEAF Center in Florien, La
- Women in the Woods forestry education program
- Beaver trapping for nuisance control on Louisiana Tech South Campus
- Prescribed burn with LDWF private lands biologist at the LEAF Center in Florien, La
- Briarwood Bay Garden Restoration Project at Briarwood Nature Preserve in Saline, La
- Booth working for National Hunt and Fish Day at Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge in Monroe, LA
- Deer check station with Arkansas Game and Fish Commission in Pollard, Ar
References
Tristan Bulice
Shirey Bay Rainey Brake WMA Biologist 2
Lynn, Arkansas 72440
(501) 516-9259
tristan.bulice@agfc.ar.gov
Dr. Joshua Adams
Director of the School of Agricultural Sciences and Forestry
Ruston, Louisiana 71270
(318) 257-4457
adamsj@latech.edu
Dr. Heidi Adams
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Habitat Management
Ruston, Louisiana 71270
(318) 257-2947
hadams@latech.edu
Timeline
Intern
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission
05.2025 - 08.2025
Student Worker
Joshua Adams
07.2024 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Forestry- Wildlife Habitat Management
Louisiana Tech University