Amanda Cheeseman
Assistant Professor
Natural Resource Management
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
McFadden Biostress Laboratory 141A, Box 2140B
Brookings, Sd 57007
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I work to tease out the relationships between wildlife and their habitats in order to inform species management and conservation. 

Lab News

Student
​Awards & Honors

Amara Roland receives the 2026-2028 Dehaan Endowed Program Award
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Ashley Fazekas receives the 2026 Ducks Unlimited Scholarship in Natural Resources
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Victor Piñeiro receives the 2026 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
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Maya Pendleton recieves the 2026 Lloyd and Alice Fredrickson Memorial Scholarship

Current Projects

The Wood Rabbit Project

New England cottontails (aka wood rabbits) are threatened with extinction.  The Wood rabbit Project is engaged in research habitat conservation to recover this imperiled species

Great Plains Otter Project

Assessing distribution and habitat of Great Plains River Otter

South Dakota Bats

Surveying and mapping the present distribution and habitat needs of bats across South Dakota
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