Speaker Larry Carlile

Larry has been a Wildlife Biologist for the Department of Defense at Fort Stewart / Hunter Army Airfield for the past 27 years. Larry is Chief of the Fort Stewart/Hunter Army Airfield Fish and Wildlife Branch and supervises a staff of 25 wildlife biologists, technicians, and contractors. He’s responsible for the management and monitoring of state and federally protected rare, threatened, and endangered species including; the smooth coneflower, bald eagle, wood stork, eastern indigo snake, frosted flatwoods salamander, and red-cockaded woodpeckers, as well as game species and sport fish within an active and dynamic military landscape. Larry's presentation will discuss the recovery of the Fort Stewart red-cockaded woodpecker population and management activities that support other rare species on the Installation.