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Project Coyote, a North American coalition of wildlife scientists, educators, predator- friendly ranchers and community leaders, promotes compassionate conservation and coexistence between people and wildlife. As a national non-profit organization based in Northern California, Project Coyote works to change negative attitudes toward coyotes, wolves and other native carnivores by replacing ignorance and fear with understanding, respect and appreciation. All of our work ó through education, science, and advocacy ó strives to create fundamental and systemic changes in the ways wild carnivores are viewed and treated in North America.
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As the Executive Director of Project Coyote and a wildlife consultant, Camilla assists communities, agencies, wildlife managers, and non-governmental organizations in creating innovative solutions to help people and wildlife coexist. A frequent speaker on these issues, Camilla has authored more than 60 publications and is co-author of Coyotes in Our Midst: Coexisting with an Adaptable and Resilient Carnivore and co-editor and lead author of the book, Cull of the Wild: A Contemporary Analysis of Trapping in the United States. Her work on behalf of wildlife has been featured in several national and international media outlets including the German documentary, Coyote: The Hunted Hunter, two North American documentaries: American Coyote- Still Wild at Heart, and On Nature’s Terms, as well as The New York Times, the BBC, NPR, Orion, USA Today magazine, and Bay Nature magazine. Camilla holds a Master’s degree in Environmental Studies with a focus in Wildlife Conservation, Policy, and Ecology from Prescott College and a Bachelor’s degree from Boston University where she graduated magna cum laude in 1991. She has served as an appointed member on the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture's National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee and currently serves on several national and local advisory boards. In 2006, Camilla received the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Marin Humane Society and the Christine Stevens Wildlife Award from the Animal Welfare Institute.
Kelly now lives on an 80-acre horse farm with her husband, two dogs, two cats and one horse. They share the farm with a resident pack of coyotes. She sees them often, listens to their songs, and finds co-existence easy by simply supervising her dogs carefully and keeping her cats indoors. She originally learned about the plight of coyotes in a college course when the professor showed Doug Hawes-Davis' film ìKilling Coyoteî that outlined their misdirected wholesale slaughter. Shocked by what she learned, and having been unaware of the war on native wildlife, she became involved with Project Coyote in order to make a difference. Kelly strongly believes in non-lethal coexistence and that education will change not only public misperceptions about coyotes but also their barbaric treatment.
Striking the balance between art and commerce, Deb possesses an MBA (Marketing) as well as degrees in Graphic Design and Visual Arts. Deb uses her extensive creative skills to assist Project Coyote with branding as well as creating marketing and communications collateral materials. She believes that well considered designs are an asset in educating and motivating a community of supporters.
Stacey writes and speaks on a variety of animal related issues including legislation, policy, and laws impacting wildlife and companion animals. Her work on behalf of animals has been featured in major national media outlets including NPR that interviewed her on the dissent in the highly publicized Maryland Court of Appeals case impacting pit bull-type dogs in Maryland, Tracey v. Solesky. Her work on the coyote/fox penning issue with Project Coyote has been published in the ABA-TIPS-Animal Law Committee Newsletter. Stacey earned her Juris Doctorate from Tulane University and her bachelor's degree from George Mason University. Her interest in proactively promoting coexistence between people and canids grew out of her experience rescuing and adopting her American Eskimo dog, Louis Luigi who is the love of her life. She works with Project Coyote on legislative and policy strategies.
Randi initiated the successful ban on city funds being used for trapping coyotes in her community - the city of Calabasas, California. Working with Project Coyote, the city adopted a proactive and humane Coyote Management Plan and Educational Outreach Program, shifting the focus from killing to an emphasis on education and the reduction of wildlife attractants. Randi believes that concerned citizens can speak up and make changes in local policy that protect wildlife. As Project Coyote's Southern CaliforniaRepresentative, Randi coordinates community efforts that promote compassionate coexistence between people and coyotes and empowers citizens and policy makers to implement proactive change for America's native Song Dog.
Keli and her husband, rancher Dean Spinelli, live and work on the 500 acre Bar C R Ranch in Petaluma, California. Dean has spent the last 20 years managing the cow calf operation for the ranch, which currently runs 300 head of mother cows. Coyotes, eagles, badgers and other wildlife peacefully share the pastures with the livestock on the Bar C R. Recently retired from horse training, Keli is excited to have the time to give back, volunteering for Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue and rehabilitating abused and neglected horses for the Sonoma Change Program, where she also sits on the board of directors. A lifelong advocate for predators, Keli was often at odds with the lethal management practices she saw being used. She feels that it is time to replace long held fears with newer, better practices regarding our stewardship of the land and its wildlife inhabitants. She is excited to work with Project Coyote and believes that ranchers and wildlife can learn to share the land without conflict.
The author of Borderlines, a memoir, Caroline holds a Masters of Arts in Film and Media Studies from The New School in New York City, and and Bachelor's of Arts in English from The College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, VA.
John's love for the environment, wildlife, and ecology has driven him to become a strong advocate for America's Song Dog and conservation issues. He has worked collaboratively with many organizations and researchers throughout New England on policy related issues and field research while advocating for better treatment of coyotes and all wildlife. John's passion and engaging personality have been instrumental in helping to foster educated coexistence and compassionate conservation throughout New England. His ability to distill information from scientists, researchers and biologists and present it in a way that is meaningful and memorable has earned him recognition throughout the North East.
McComb produces weekly webisodes for his YouTube channel on environmental and wildlife conservation issues along with potential solutions so that these ideals transcend borders. Early last year he received a certificate in plant based nutrition from Cornell University and continues to study and learn about ways to protect the planet. To date he has publicly spoken on a variety of environmental issues including the California Fish and Game Commissionís approach to predator management. He is confident that we can bring about systemic change in the way we treat not only predators, but also the entire California environment providing a model for the rest of the nation. Trying to balance advocacy work with a full school load is a challenge, but Grant is dedicated to making this a better world for all: ìIf I donít stand up and say something for my generation who will?î He plans on entering politics with an environmental background and base to bring about changes and aid in the effort to save this planet from those who would destroy it for personal gain or lack of foresight.
She was shocked to learn that retired greyhound racers are often handed off to hunters for chasing and killing rabbits and coyotes. Her efforts to bring attention to this cruel practice have been featured in national media outlets including the New York Times. Living in New Mexico, Paulsen encounters anti-coyote/predator sentiment and believes that education is critical and policy change is necessary to shift the way coyotes are viewed and treated in the West. She works to promote Project Coyote's "Coyote Friendly Communities" program and to raise awareness about the important ecological role that coyotes play in maintaining healthy ecosystems. She is also actively involved in efforts to prohibit coyote killing contests in her home state. Judy's love for all things canine and her belief that the abuse perpetrated against greyhounds parallels the abuse perpetrated against their wild cousins fuels her passion to make this a better world for all canids- domestic and wild. In her spare time Judy photographs coyotes and collects and analyzes their scat. Her work in the medical field for 23 years and her love of analytics, scatology, tracking and animal behavior "has created in me an ardent pursuit of facts to help others appreciate the importance in preserving the balance of nature."
Becky became interested in the plight of America’s native song dogs, upon hearing them nightly in the woods surrounding her home in Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains and has studied them extensively. She helps Project Coyote in its political and public outreach strategy as well as on state campaigns. Becky divides her time between Florida and Virginia, after her long career in media and public affairs in Washington D.C.
Beginning in the early 1990's, Chris taught Conservation Issues and Wolf Ecology at the University of New Hampshire, receiving many teaching excellence and student recognition awards. She continues to instruct and mentor adult degree candidates in the UNH System at Granite State College. While wolf recovery was the focus of her early work, Chris' attention shifted to the eastern coyote when she moved to New England. She chose a farm with known coyote problems to raise sheep and train her border collies. Using sound livestock management and common sense, she has avoided any predation for nearly two decades. A peaceful co-existence between coyote and livestock has grown an attentive audience for humane management. Chris continues her work of the last 30 years. She divides her time between teaching on the New Hampshire Seacoast, and working on her book "Becoming Wolf: The Eastern Coyote in New England". Between presentations she can be found at camp in northern New Hampshire tracking coyotes, howling for wolves or leading treks into Canada to study wild canids.
ADVISORY BOARD
As Sierra Club President, Larry spoke in more than 30 states and territories from Puerto Rico to above the Arctic Circle with the Gwich’in People in Alaska. He appeared on local and national news media such as NPR, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, advocating for wilderness and wildlife protection, environmental justice and renewable energy expansion. In the Spring of 2004, Larry addressed over one million people, mostly women, at the March for Women’s Lives on the National Mall in Washington D.C. He served as a Sierra Club delegate to the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen, Cancun, and Durban. In 2013 he spearheaded an initiative at Sierra Club to strengthen its wildlife policy by banning the use of body gripping-traps for fun or profit. During his years with As You Sow, he pioneered shareholder initiatives to publicize the presence of mercury in certain fish species, lead in consumer products and portable classrooms, and phthalates in children's toys. Among other accomplishments As You Sow spearheaded the campaign that resulted in Home Depot removing old-growth redwood from its wood products. A political activist and strategic campaigner, Larry has worked on scores of ballot measures and citizens’ initiatives in California on a wide array of environmental and wildlife issues including Prop 197 to ban mountain lion hunting and Prop 4 which prohibited the use of specific poisons and body-gripping traps for recreational or commercial trapping. He helped lobby successfully to enact California legislation ending the sale of shark fins and the barbaric practice of hunting bears with packs of dogs. Larry received dual undergraduate degrees in Environmental Science and Rhetoric from UC Davis and a JD from University of California Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. He resides in Mill Valley, California with his dog Suzie.
Gina brings her considerable skills and talents to Project Coyote from the for-profit world. During her 30 years as a consultant and corporate professional, she co-managed the Corporate Trust Department for the Bank of America; designed products for Charles Schwab and Stanford University; and created the decision model for the development of affordable housing in Sonoma County, CA. Gina's passion is for wildlife and wild places. She is an experienced wildlife rehabilitator, is medically trained as a Wilderness First Responder, and is an accomplished audio naturalist. She serves on the board of the Nature Sounds Society, is a sought after public speaker, and trains environmental advocates in effective communications for the Environmental Forum of Marin.
Protecting coyotes from abuse, harassment and habitat destruction is close to Edís heart and he is delighted to be a member of the advisory board at Project Coyote.
Since leaving the firm to the next generation in 2010, she has established a solo practice. In addition to serving on Project Coyote’s Advisory Board, Ms. Lamphier is also involved with several environmental organizations as a long term volunteer including the Golden Gate Raptor Observatory (Hawkwatch), Farallones Marine Sanctuary (Beach Watch), Point Reyes National Seashore (Seals, Tule Elk Docent), Marin Agricultural Land Trust, Audubon Canyon Ranch (Heron Nesting Survey). These long term commitments provide the opportunity to contribute to long term data monitoring of specific species.
SCIENCE ADVISORY BOARD Shelley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Calgary,Canada. She has conducted field carnivore research in the Canadian Rockies since 1990, and worked briefly with captive wolves and coyotes at Dalhousie University's Animal Research Station in Nova Scotia. There, she also collaborated with Acadia University researchers studying non-lethal deterrents to coyote depredation on sheep. In 2002, Shelley completed her Ph.D. at the University of Calgary, examining highway traffic effects on 13 species (including coyotes and wolves). The research identified optimal sites for placing wildlife crossing structures along the Trans-Canada Highway. Shelley established the Calgary Coyote Project in 2005, which has examined coyote diet relative to perceived conflict, urban and rural diet and parasitism, print media portrayal of coyote interactions with people and pets (1998-2010), and spearheaded the on-line, Living with Coyotes. Shelley's research currently serves as the most comprehensive study of contemporary urban coyote issues in Canada. Shelley's other research collaborations since 2001 have included: modeling swift fox critical habitat, studying road effects on large carnivores in the Yucatan, MX, and developing species-environment models with Painted Dog Conservation in Zimbabwe. Shelley enjoys time with her three dogs and is an avid horse-woman.
Her 2006 paper, Carnivore-Livestock Conflicts: Effects of Subsidized Predator Control and Economic Correlates on the Sheep Industry was part of the basis for a recent petition encouraging the Environmental Protection Agency to ban the use of toxicants for predator control. Kim has done field work in Alaska, Norway, Argentina, Namibia, Mongolia, and Wyoming, and has studied species ranging from caribou, moose, pronghorn, and saiga antelope, to coyotes, wolves, and snow leopards. She completed her PhD at Utah State University where her research focused on the impact of wolves on coyote/pronghorn interactions and pronghorn fawn survival in southern Greater Yellowstone.
A native of Chicago, Brad fostered his love of nature through the area's famous museums and zoos and frequent field excursions while pursuing his Eagle Scout. An avid and accomplished birder, Brad is a long-time member of the American Birding Association's "700 Club" and has birded all 50 states, most Canadian provinces, and 21 countries. He conducts breeding and wintering bird surveys for USGS, National Audubon Society, and the states of Florida and Georgia. He is also a long-time environmental activist, having served on numerous boards and steering committees for local, state, regional, and national environmental organizations. Brad is winner of the 1991 Special Achievement Award from the Georgia Environmental Council, and the 2012 American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) Presidential Special Award, for his work on wetlands conservation and mammalian species conservation, respectively. Dr. Bergstrom has chaired the ASM Conservation Committee since 2007. As a result of his researching and shepherding policy positions for the Society during this time, he has developed a research interest in public policy related to conservation of rare, endangered and otherwise important species of mammals. His committee sponsored a public forum with four officials from USDA Wildlife Services in 2012 and a symposium on predator control in 2013, both of which seek to explore alternative wildlife management paradigms that will facilitate human-wildlife coexistence.
Dr. Bruskotter earned a M.S. from Utah State University in Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Science and Management, and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Natural Resources Science and Management. He joined the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Ohio State University as an assistant professor in 2007, where he is a member of the School's Terrestrial Wildlife Ecology Lab - a partnership between the School and the Ohio Division of Wildlife. Generally, Dr. Bruskotter's research is concerned with bringing the tools and techniques of the social sciences to bear on pressing issues in wildlife conservation and management. Current research efforts involve understanding and predicting attitudes and behaviors related to wildlife conservation, especially tolerance for large carnivores. Follow Jeremy's blog about wildlife policy.
Dr. Camenzind is also well-respected wildlife cinematographer and has produced films for ABC, Turner Broadcasting and National Geographic and a film on coyotes for PBS-Nature. He was the first person to film giant pandas in the wilds of China. He has also produced films featuring wolves, grizzly bears, pronghorn antelope and black rhinos, and has filmed major segments on the California condor, black-footed ferret, and red wolf and Mexican gray wolf captive breeding programs. Franz recently announced his retirement as the Executive Director of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, a position he will have held for 13 years when his retirement takes effect in 2009. Previous to that he served as a board member for 13 years. He has also served on the boards of Keystone Conservation (Formerly, Predator Conservation Alliance), Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Wyoming Conservation Voters.
His seminal work on coyotes in central Washington (1984 thru 1988) and on Yellowstone's northern range (1989 thru 2009) formed the basis for a new understanding of coyote ecology and population demography. He has defined numerous mechanisms regarding the powerful demographic and behavioral response coyotes have to human exploitation and wolf impacts. From a scientist's viewpoint he has challenged the ecological and economic validity of indiscriminate killing of coyote (and carnivore) populations. He has also conducted studies on wolves, foxes, bears, felids, mustelids and raptors and has specialized in the analysis of long-term time-series data sets on many vertebrate species populations. He began working on research projects in Yellowstone National Park immediately after the Great Fires of 1988. His primary focus at that time was predator-prey relations, population modeling, and carnivore behavior. Soon after becoming established in Yellowstone with a variety of ecological research projects, he founded YERC based on three pillars: (1) long-term research and monitoring, (2) large spatial scale landscape ecology, and (3) building collaborative partnerships with decision-makers. Increasing the role of science at the decision-making table and seeking innovative ways to bridge the gap between scientists and practitioners has been a primary concern in his career. This has led to his interest in spatio-temporal predictive modeling of species populations and ecological forecasting of communities. The bio-political atmosphere at Yellowstone along with his 4-year appointment with the Department of Energy in Washington has certainly molded his career track. He continues to strive to 'translate' the results of ecological research into informed decision-making and on-the-ground conservation action. Bob's continued long term research in Yellowstone led to expansion into remote sensing applications in ecology to provide scientists and decisions makers access to landscape scale evaluations, ecosystem assessments, and important variables to understand change in species populations from climate and other environmental impacts. He also began parallel studies to understand the long-term effects of the wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone and has taken full advantage of similar natural and policy experiments such as land-use activities, fire, floods, drought, beetle kill, and extreme weather events - all with a 'systems' approach. He worked with colleagues at the University of Montana to design and form a new Systems Ecology graduate program. He has recently worked on developing Adaptive Impact Models (AIM) with the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed publications, has crafted over 50 MOUs and cooperative agreements with federal and state agencies, and obtained funding on 80 grants that have led to another 100+ publications on collaborative projects in Yellowstone and other benchmark ecosystems. Rick Hopkins is co-owner and Senior Conservation Biologist at Live Oak Associates, Inc. (LOA), an ecological consulting firm based in California. LOA provides public and private clients with science-based solutions to complex natural resource questions. Rick holds a Ph.D. in Wildlands Resource Ecology from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in Biology at San Jose State University. His graduate research involved a 12-year study on the spatial ecology of the cougar in the Diablo Range. While Rick is a broadly trained ecologist with experience with several threatened and endangered wildlife species, he has dedicated the last 35 years to the study of mammalian carnivores. His research and interest with large carnivores has focused on conservation biology; population ecology; spatial ecology, and human/predator conflicts. Rick is currently President of the Board at the non-profit Cougar Fund due to his strong interest in advocating science-based conservation for cougars. He also serves on the board of Conservation Science Partners, an applied research collective whose goals are to provide innovative analytics to solve today's conservation questions. Rick spends his free time cycling, speed skating, hiking, skiing and generally enjoying all things outdoors. Michael P. Nelson, is an environmental scholar, writer, teacher, speaker, consultant, and professor of environmental ethics and philosophy at Oregon State University. He currently holds the Ruth H. Spaniol Endowed Chair of Renewable Resources in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society in the College of Forestry. At OSU he also serves as the Lead-Principle Investigator for the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research program, and as a Senior Fellow with the Spring Creek Project for Ideas, Nature, and the Written Word. He is a collaborator with, and the philosopher in residence for, the Isle Royale Wolf-Moose Project in Lake Superior (www.isleroyalewolf.org), the longest continuous study of a predator-prey system in the world. Michael is the co-founder and co-director (with John A. Vucetich) of the Conservation Ethics Group, an award-winning environmental ethics consultancy group fusing ethics with social and ecological science (www.conservationethics.org). Michaelís research and teaching focus is environmental ethics and philosophy: from the concept of wilderness to topics in the philosophy of ecology, from hunting ethics to theories of environmental education, from topics in wildlife ecology and conservation biology to questions about science and advocacy and the philosophical work of Aldo Leopold. He works closely at the interface of ethics, social science, and ecology. He is the author of many professional and popular articles, and the author or editor of four books, in and around the area of environmental ethics, including The Great New Wilderness Debate (1998), The Wilderness Debate Rages On: Continuing the Great New Wilderness Debate (2008), and American Indian Environmental Ethics: An Ojibwa Case Study (2004), all with J. Baird Callicott, and the award-winning book Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril (2010) with Kathleen Dean Moore. Michael is called upon regularly by various government agencies and conservation organizations to address and assist with understanding the ethical implications of natural resource management decisions. Michael holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Lancaster University, England. He lives in Corvallis, Oregon with his old cat Bear, his getting old dog Oliver, and forever young wife Heather.
Dave’s interests include the ecology and conservation of large carnivores, protection and conservation of biodiversity, and wildlands conservation at scales that fully support ecological and evolutionary processes. He is the vice-chairman and a science fellow of The Rewilding Institute (a conservation think tank) and is the Institute’s Carnivore Conservation Biologist. Dave was a graduate advisor in the Environmental Studies Master of Arts Program at Prescott College, Arizona from 2002-Spring 2008. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and serves on several regional steering/advisory committees for organizations and coalitions advocating for wolf recovery and landscape-scale conservation in the Southwest. In 2001, Dave was a co-recipient of the New Mexico Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s annual “Professional Award.” In April 2007 at the North American Wolf Conference, Dave received the 2006 “Alpha Award” for his “outstanding professional achievement and leadership toward the recovery of Mexican wolves.” In May 2008 Dave received the “Outstanding Conservation Leadership Award” from the Wilburforce Foundation and the “Mike Seidman Memorial Award” from the Sky Island Alliance for his conservation achievements. Dave is the owner of Parsons Biological Consulting, which provides technical services, information, and policy advice on matters relating to wildlife biology and ecology, and wildlife and wildlands conservation to conservation-minded clients. He enjoys wildlife viewing and wilderness backpacking and lives in Albuquerque, NM, with his wife, Noralyn.
He worked as a biologist for the Canadian Wildlife Service for many years. Now, he is Senior Ecologist with the Conservation Biology Institute and Raincoast Conservation Foundation, an international consultant and lecturer. Paul is a long-time fellow of World Wildlife Fund Canada. He was one of the architects of the World Wide Fund for Nature and European Union’s Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe. He is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary, where he supervises graduate student research. He is a member of several government, industry, and NGO advisory committees concerned with the conservation of large carnivores. Dr. Paquet has written more than 100 scientific articles and reports and published several books on the behaviour, ecology, and management of wolves. His current research focuses on conservation of large carnivores and effects of human activities on their survival.
Dr. Purcell currently holds an adjunct fellowship with the University of Western Sydney whilst teaching undergraduate students. He is an advisory member of the National Dingo Preservation and Recovery Program and works with the Blue Mountains World Heritage Institute on research projects. Brad also represents his local community on sustainability and water quality monitoring advisory committees for his local government.
Hope is the recipient of many distinguished awards for her writings and work on behalf of coyotes and other wildlife including the Art and Literary Award 2002 from New York State Outdoor Education Association; the Outstanding Achievement Award from Augustana College; the Humane Excellence Award ASPCA; the Joseph Wood Krutch Award from the Humane Society of the United States; the Animal Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Animal Protection Institute of America ; the Humanitarian of the Year Award from the American Horse Protection Society; the Who's Who of American Women and the Who's Who in the East.
Michael was a founder and first President of the Society for Conservation Biology and The Wildlands Project (also the current President). He has written and edited 9 books on biology, conservation biology, and the social and policy context of conservation. He has published more than 170 articles on population and evolutionary biology, fluctuating asymmetry, population genetics, island biogeography, environmental studies, biodiversity policy, nature conservation, and ethics. He continues to do research on ecosystem regulation by highly interactive species. He is a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, is the sixth recipient of the Archie Carr Medal, was named by Audubon Magazine in 1998 as one of the 100 Champions of Conservation of the 20th Century, is a recipient of the National Wildlife Federation’s National Conservation Achievement Award for science, the recipient of the Conservation Medal for 2007 from the Zoological Society of San Diego and in the first class of recipients of The Edward O. Wilson Biodiversity Technology Pioneer Award. Now living in Colorado, Michael speaks and writes on ethics and conservation, and serves on the boards of several conservation organizations, including the Wildlands Network, and consults internationally on nature protection. He is completing a book about the origins and evolution of sin and how it can inform our understanding of human nature can guide conservation and related life-affirming movements. To read more about Michael’s work and publications, visit: www.michaelsoule.com.
In 2007, he founded the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Adrian’s research focuses on how to balance human needs with wildlife conservation. To study this question, he explores people's conflicts with large carnivores, particularly livestock predation in the USA and abroad. This line of inquiry includes livestock husbandry, wildlife management, human and carnivore behavior, and methods for mitigating human-carnivore conflicts. In the field, he measures the behavior of problem carnivores using spatial predictive models and people's responses to and perceptions of conflicts. Adrian and his students conduct fieldwork in Wisconsin (wolves), Ecuador (Andean spectacled bears), and East Africa (lions and hyenas) with a variety of collaborators. For links to his recent research articles on carnivores, compensation, hunting, mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, and co-management, see www.nelson.wisc.edu/people/treves/Publications.htm
Weed is nationally recognized for her efforts in Predator Friendly ranching and was featured in Time Magazine in their series on "Heroes for the Planet" in 2000. As an outspoken proponent for human-predator coexistence, Weed advocates for dialogue with both consumers and producers through the Predator Friendly program. Weed is trained as a geologist, and worked in that field for many years before becoming involved in agriculture. She has been involved with carnivore conservation issues for several years, and currently serves on the Board of the Wild Farm Alliance and the Conservation & Science Board of Lava Lake Land & Livestock, a very large Idaho ranch with a dual mission for conservation and economically viable ranching. She is a member of the Montana Board of Livestock.
Her research focuses on metropolitan sprawl, physical activity and urban design, urban environmental justice and political ecology, and society-animals relations. She has also investigated problems of urban poverty, homelessness, and human service delivery, and the evolution of state-civil society relations. With Jody Emel, she edited Animal Geographies: Place, Politics and Identity in the Nature/Culture Borderlands (Verso, 1998), and has published articles and book chapters on population diversity and attitudes toward animals, racialization and animal practices, and the place of animals in the city.
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Camilla H. Fox, MA - Founder & Executive Director
Kelly Edwards - Communications Associate
Deb Etheredge - Creative Associate
Stacey Evans, Esq. - Legislative & Policy Associate
Randi Feilich - Southern California Representative
Keli Hendricks - Predator Friendly Ranching Coordinator
Caroline Kraus - Multimedia Producer
John Maguranis - Massachusetts Representative
Grant McComb - Youth Outreach Associate
Judy Paulsen - New Mexico Representative
Becky Bailey Pomponio - Florida & Virginia Representative
Chris Schadler, MS, MA - New Hampshire & Vermont Representative & Wild Canid Ecologist
Peter Coyote
Larry Fahn, Esq.
Gina Farr - National Coyote Educator & Communications Advisor
Edward Goodman, Esq.
Joan Lamphier, MCP
Gloria McCary, Esq.
Shelley M. Alexander, PhD
Marc Bekoff, PhD
Kim Murray Berger, PhD
Bradley J. Bergstrom, PhD
Jeremy Bruskotter, PhD
Franz J. Camenzind, PhD 
Robert (Bob) L. Crabtree, PhD
Rick Hopkins, PhD
Michael P. Nelson, PhD
David R. Parsons, MS
Paul Paquet, PhD
Brad V. Purcell, PhD
Hope Ryden
Michael Soulé, PhD
Adrian Treves, PhD
John Vucetich, PhD
Becky Weed
Jennifer Wolch, PhD