WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE

Barbara is author of the newly released book “Animals’ Best Friends: Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild”, Barbara discusses animal emotion and cognition, the ethics of our relationships with animals, and the evolutionary history of language, culture, and religion. Her book “How Animals Grieve” has been translated into 7 languages, and her TED talk on animal love and grief has now received over 3 million views.

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Jay talks with Lucas Rhoads. As a staff attorney within NRDC‘s Wildlife Division, Lucas works to protect bees and other pollinators from a wide range of threats, including pesticide use, habitat destruction, and climate change. He advocates at both the federal and state levels for policies that protect these vital species—while employing litigation to enhance and enforce existing protections. 

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Jay talks with Mitch Doherty, the conservation director for Vital Ground. Vital Ground’s Land and Conservation Program focuses on habitat protection and stewardship projects that encompass the Northern Continental Divide, Selkirk, Cabinet-Yaak, Bitterroot, Yellowstone and North Cascades ecosystems.

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As the Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator, Chris talks about coordinating all the research and management on grizzly bears in the lower 48 states and working closely with grizzly biologists in Alberta and British Columbia. Servheen wrote the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan and was the EIS Team Leader for the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Reintroduction EIS and was responsible for the delisting rule for the Yellowstone grizzly population in 2007, and he drafted the delisting rule in 2016 prior to his retirement.

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Justin Schwabedissen is the Bear Biologist for Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Here he talks about his work with Grizzlies and Black Bear in the Park. 

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Solar energy installations need to be located in places that will not interrupt wildlife habitat and movement. Michael Dax and Aaron Facka, scientists with Wildlands Network,  are working in the Four Corners area of the SW to identify locations that will not impact wildlife. 

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Derek Goldman is National Field Director and Northern Rockies Field Representative for the Endangered Species Coalition, based in Washington, D.C. Derek has worked with the Endangered Species Coalition since 2005. He has advocated and organized primarily around gray wolf and grizzly bear issues, in addition to other species issues in the region. 

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Hanem Abouelezz is Wildlife Biologist for Wide Ranging Species Conservation for the National Park Service. She is based in Colorado and recently transferred from Rocky Mountain National Park where for several years she had studied Elk and Beaver impacts on Vegetation.

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Catherine is a former national park ranger at Glacier, Mount Rainier, North Cascades, Voyageurs, and Yellowstone national parks. She earned a PhD in biology from Montana State University, holds degrees in zoology and botany from the University of Montana, and is a member of American Mensa and Sigma Xi. Her natural history essays have appeared in American Scientist, Journal of American Mensa, Montana Magazine, Narrative Magazine, and National Geographic Traveler.

Fox and I: an Uncommon Friendship was listed as one of 2021’s best books by the Christian Science Monitor.

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Stephen Capra describes the cruelty of trapping and his group's efforts to end trapping in Montana. 

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