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Jim Garry, M.S. (Bechler Backpack; The Autumn Wildlife Show; Wolves of the Past, Present, and Future; A Tropical Species in Yellowstone’s Winter; Coyote and Raven: Two Full of Facts and Folklore)
is a naturalist and folklorist who works in the area where natural history, human history, folklore, and myth overlap—the rich soil that grows stories. He’s spent a good bit of the last four decades in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, collecting stories from people and critters. His books include This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke Us Yet and The First Liar Never Has a Chance.
Kerry A. Gunther, M.S. (Pelican Valley Grizzly Bear Basecamp)
is the Bear Management Biologist for Yellowstone National Park, where he has worked in grizzly bear and black bear research and management for more than two decades. He has published papers on bear management, grizzly bear-human interactions, bear inflicted human injuries, and grizzly bear predation on elk calves, bison calves, and spawning cutthroat trout. He is the recipient of the 1997 Sigurd Olsen Environmental Achievement Award and the 2005 U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Project of the Year Award.
Alan Kesselheim (Writing Retreat: The Wild Shore of Yellowstone; Words Inspired by Wilderness)
is a wilderness adventurer, accomplished paddler, freelance writer, and workshop leader. Adventures in wild places have fueled much of his writing. He has written hundreds of magazine pieces and nine acclaimed books, including Water and Sky: Reflections of a Northern Year and Threading the Currents: A Paddler’s Passion for Water. He has taught popular writing classes at the Buffalo Ranch and on the shores of Yellowstone Lake since 2001.
Dan Stahler, Ph.D. student (Autumn Wolf and Elk Backpack)
student has studied wolves since 1996. He earned his master’s degree studying the relationship between Yellowstone’s ravens and wolves, and is now researching wolf social dynamics and genetics for his doctorate. He is the project biologist for the Yellowstone Wolf Project where he helps coordinate and direct research on wolves, their prey, and scavenger communities.
Nathan Varley, Ph.D. (Autumn Wolf and Elk Backpack; Watching Wolves in Autumn; Watching Wolves in Autumn ; Exciting Horizons for Wolves; Fang and Flesh: Hunter and Hunted in Yellowstone)
is a natural and cultural historian specializing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where he has lived almost his entire life. As a wildlife biologist, he has studied many of Yellowstone’s large mammals, including elk, wolves, bears, and bison. His doctoral research at the University of Alberta focused on the effects of wolf restoration on the park’s Northern Range elk herd.
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