My name is Daniel Wilcox. I have been hunting and fishing with my father for so long that my first experiences pre-date my earliest memories. I have always been able to rely on the outdoors for not only recreation, but for therapy and guidance as well. Hunting is an incredibly important conservation tool and has several beneficial influences to our state’s wildlife – both directly and indirectly. I want to spend my career analyzing these contributions to our ecosystems as to promote a long-term assurance that this pastime will persist through generations. With this sentiment, I pursued an undergraduate degree in wildlife, sustainability, and ecosystem science from Tarleton State University and became heavily involved with The Wildlife Society. I am fortunate to have found myself under the impression of these two institutions as they offered many opportunities to refine my interests and skillsets in the wildlife ecology domain. I developed an interest in ecology of large mammals, particularly questions regarding the “how, when, and why” they select habitat. I graduated from Tarleton in June 2019 and accepted a graduate research assistantship with Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University the following August. Here, I am investigating similarities in habitat associations between aoudad, desert bighorn sheep, and mule deer in Texas. Encroaching aoudad populations across Texas threaten a deleterious impact to desert bighorn and mule deer populations. Niche overlap between the three species and available niche space of recipient communities will influence the intensity of such impacts. These processes are difficult to quantify, however, investigating habitat use and survival between aoudad, desert bighorn, and mule deer in a co-occupied community will shed light on native species’ response to this invader.