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CORVALLIS - Dan Edge, head of the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife at Oregon State University, has been confirmed as a new member of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission.

Edge is an internationally recognized wildlife ecologist and national award-winning teacher. He conducts a research program on the population and habitat ecology of animals in forest and agricultural ecosystems that has attracted more than $5 million in funding, and was the Extension wildlife specialist at OSU for 10 years.

Edge has also served as president of the Oregon Chapter of the Wildlife Society, and has worked at the Smithsonian Institution training foreign nationals, and for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Pakistan.

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission forms general state programs and policies about the management and conservation of fish and wildlife resources, and also establishes seasons, methods and bag limits for recreational and commercial harvests.