Office: 103 Walster Hall
Phone: (701) 231-8386
E-mail: donald.kirby@ndsu.edu

Research interests:
Grazing Management
Noxious Weed Control
Wetland Ecology

Training/Education:
PhD, Range Science-Texas A&M University, 1980
MS, Natural Resources Management-Humboldt State University, 1976
BS, Range and Wildlife Management-Humboldt State University, 1974

Courses taught:
RNG 456/656 Range Habitat Management
RNG 458/658 Grazing Ecology

Recent publications (last five years):

Hargiss, C.L.M., E.S. DeKeyser, D.R. Kirby, and M.J. Ell. 2008. Regional assessment of wetland plant communities using the index of plant community integrity. Ecol. Indicators 8:303-307.

Mita, D., E. DeKeyser, D. Kirby, and G. Easson. 2007. Developing a wetland condition prediction model using landscape structure variability. Wetlands 27:1124-1133.

Erickson, A.M., R.G. Lym, and D.R. Kirby. 2006. Effect of herbicides for leafy spurge control on the western prairie fringed orchid. Rangeland Ecol. and Manage. 59:462-467.

Roger, W.M., D.R. Kirby, P.E. Nyren, B.D. Patton and E.S. DeKeyser. 2005. Grazing intensity effects on northern plains mixed-grass prairie. The Prairie Naturalist 37:73-83.

Kirby, D.R., R.G.Lym, J.J. Sterling and C. Sieg. 2003. Leafy spurge control in western prairie fringed orchid habitat. J. Range Manage. 56:466-473.

DeKeyser, E.S., D.R. Kirby and M.J. Ell. 2003. An index of plant community integrity: Development of the methodology for assessing prairie wetland plant communities. Ecol. Indicators 3:119-133.