By Jay Shell
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Karen Garthwait is Acting Public Affairs Specialist for Canyonlands. Karen has been an Interpretation park ranger with the NPS since 2004 and stationed here in Moab for 18 years, starting out as a Park Guide giving walks and talks, then supervising Park Guide teams and interns, and now overseeing the park’s media work and exhibit projects. Canyonlands National Park is in Southeastern Utah. Established in 1964, it preserves over 500 square miles of high-desert country through which flow the Green & Colorado rivers. This is Part 2 of a one-hour interview.
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Karen Garthwait, is Acting Public Affairs Specialist for Canyonlands. Karen has been an Interpretation park ranger with the NPS since 2004 and stationed here in Moab for 18 years, starting out as a Park Guide giving walks and talks, then supervising Park Guide teams and interns, and now overseeing the park’s media work and exhibit projects. Canyonlands National Park is in Southeastern Utah. Established in 1964, it preserves over 500 square miles of high-desert country through which flow the Green & Colorado rivers.
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Denver Holt is Founder & President of Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, about 20 miles south of Flathead Lake. Today, it is one of the premier owl research centers in the world. Denver has published numerous scientific papers and is a widely published author who has been featured in many articles from National Geographic to the New York Times, as well as in many television programs. He has educated and entertained people from all walks of life. This the the second half of our one hour interview.
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Denver Holt is Founder & President of Owl Research Institute in Charlo, Montana, about 20 miles south of Flathead Lake. Today, it is one of the premier owl research centers in the world. Denver has published numerous scientific papers and is a widely published author who has been featured in many articles from National Geographic to the New York Times, as well as in many television programs. He has educated and entertained people from all walks of life.
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Ryan Trimbath, a Biologist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park where he has worked for the last eight years. Prior to working for the NPS, Ryan got a degree in Wildlife & Conservation Biology from Ohio University (2007) then traveled around the country working as a field biologist on various research projects. During this time, he honed his skills as a field biologist and pursued his interests in forest and avian ecology. Ryan has the honor of being the only Ornithologist to ever hold a living Northern Parula x Cerulean Warbler hybrid which he discovered at Deep Lock Quarry in 2014, with a second bird found at Oak Hill in 2015. You can read more about this discovery in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology “Evidence for hybridization between Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) and Cerulean warbler (S. cerulea)” (Trimbath et al. 2019).
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Ryan Trimbath, a Biologist at Cuyahoga Valley National Park where he has worked for the last eight years. Prior to working for the NPS, Ryan got a degree in Wildlife & Conservation Biology from Ohio University (2007) then traveled around the country working as a field biologist on various research projects. During this time, he honed his skills as a field biologist and pursued his interests in forest and avian ecology. Ryan has the honor of being the only Ornithologist to ever hold a living Northern Parula x Cerulean Warbler hybrid which he discovered at Deep Lock Quarry in 2014, with a second bird found at Oak Hill in 2015. You can read more about this discovery in the Wilson Journal of Ornithology “Evidence for hybridization between Northern Parula (Setophaga americana) and Cerulean warbler (S. cerulea)” (Trimbath et al. 2019).
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Jay interviews Jihadda Govan, the Monument Manager of Sand to Snow National Monument in Southern California which encompasses 154,000 acres and is co-managed by the Bureau of Land Management (83,000 acres) and U.S. Forest Service (71,000 acres). Jihadda holds a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic University, Humboldt, where she studied wildlife management with an emphasis in ornithology, botany, and environmental planning. She grew up in the Pasadena/Altadena areas, where she spent time hiking and exploring in the San Gabriel Mountains which sparked her love of the outdoors. Jihadda has previously worked as a wildland firefighter, wildlife biologist, and wildlife refuge and preserve manager.
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Jay talks to Jessica Karjala about Footloose Montana and her efforts to end trapping in Montana. Mrs. Karjala served in the Montana Legislature in the House of Representatives for 8 years. The first bill she sponsored defined capture, spay/neuter, return programs from trapping, and Footloose Montana supported the bill. She fought alongside other Democrats against legislation to increase wolf quotas, bills to allow silencers on rifles when hunting, spotlight hunting, hound hunting, to name a few. At the end of her first term, Jessica was selected by House leadership to represent Montana at the National Conference of State Legislatures at a National Summit. In her 3rd session, Jessica passed legislation to appropriate millions of dollars to provide grant funding for suicide prevention for which she was honored alongside Senator Tester with the Impact Award by the Montana Conference on Suicide Prevention. Jessica was also selected as one of 20 lawmakers nationwide to participate in a fellowship with The Lawmaker Network. Prior to serving in the Legislature Jessica worked in the finance and investment industry, as a small business owner, and in the nonprofit sector. Jessica has a B.A. in English Literature from the University of Montana with minor studies in Spanish and Nonprofit Administration. She resides in the Bitterroot Valley with her husband and 2 dogs who all hope to live within the city of Missoula within the next year. Jessica enjoys spending time with her daughters, stepsons, and grandson and enjoys hiking, camping, floating and skiing.
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Jay is joined by Rick McIntyre, a Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park. No one has spent more time observing and documenting wild wolves than retired National Park Ranger Rick McIntyre, who has watched wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-six of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, and the just published Alpha Female Wolf. He is currently at work on a fifth book titled Thinking Like A Wolf, due out in October 2024. He is the recipient of numerous book awards, including an Amazon Best Science Book of the Year. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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Jay is joined by Rick McIntyre, a Wolf Researcher in Yellowstone National Park. No one has spent more time observing and documenting wild wolves than retired National Park Ranger Rick McIntyre, who has watched wolves in America’s national parks for more than forty years—twenty-six of those years in Yellowstone, where he has accumulated over 100,000 sightings. McIntyre is the author of the ongoing “Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone” series, including The Rise of Wolf 8, The Reign of Wolf 21, The Redemption of Wolf 302, and the just published Alpha Female Wolf. He is currently at work on a fifth book titled Thinking Like A Wolf, due out in October 2024. He is the recipient of numerous book awards, including an Amazon Best Science Book of the Year. He lives in Silver Gate, Montana, just outside of the NE Park entrance.
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The podcast currently has 157 episodes available.