Austin Ibarra, M.S. Candidate

Austin is a current M.S student from Steamboat Springs, Colorado. His youth was spent hiking, snowmobiling, and camping in the mountains of Northwest Colorado where he developed his passion for wildlife and the outdoors. He received his bachelors degree in Natural Resources Management from Texas Tech University in 2024. During his undergrad he had the opportunity to work in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Oklahoma. This work covered a range of species including mule deer, pronghorn, white-tailed deer, and white-winged dove. Austin’s masters work focuses on species interactions of elk, mule deer, and white-tailed deer in the Elk and deer spatial interactions in the Southern Great Plains.