2023 Wilderness Speaker Series
Speaker: Dr. Diane Boyd, Wolf Biologist, MT FWP Region 1 Wolf and Carnivore Specialist (Retired)
Topic: “What is it with Wolves?”
Location: Large Community Room (Room 139) in the Arts & Technology Building at FVCC from 7:00 – 8:15 pm.
Dr. Diane Boyd has four decades of applied expertise on behavior, conservation and management of wild wolf populations. She began her career in 1977 with Dr. L. David Mech’s wolf research project in Minnesota. She moved to Montana in 1979 to study gray wolf recovery in the Rocky Mountains from the first natural colonizer to approximately 2700 wolves today in the western U.S. Her work has focused on wolf ecology, dispersal, habitat use, prey selection, behavior, morphology, genetic relationships, and the social dimensions of wolf-human conflict resolution. Dr. Boyd has long pondered why people feel so strongly about wolves. They love them or they hate them, but few people are neutral. She will discuss the journey of wolves and humans through time, how wolves disappeared and returned, the science and sociopolitics, and where we are heading in this relationship. What can we do to conserve this remarkable and confounding species on an increasingly human-dominated landscape?
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Presented by: Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, Wild Montana Flathead-Kootenai Chapter, Northwest Montana Fire Lookout Association, and the Natural Resources Conservation Management Program at Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC).