Twenty Years of Yellowstone Wolves: Reintroduction to Recovery

Douglas Smith

Monday, 03 Nov 2014 at 8:00 pm – Great Hall, Memorial Union

Douglas Smith is a senior wildlife biologist with the National Park Service and has been involved with wolves in Yellowstone since their controversial reintroduction to the park in 1992. He joined the Yellowstone Gray Wolf Restoration Project in 1994 as a research technician and now serves as the project leader, supervising research on ecosystem responses to the predator and educating people on wildlife conservation and endangered species preservation. Prior to Yellowstone, Smith worked with wolves on Michigan's Isle Royale and in Minnesota. He is the author of Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone. 50th Anniversary Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture
Douglas Smith received his BS in wildlife biology from the University of Idaho, an MS in biology from Michigan Technological University, and his PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, in the program of Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology.

Cosponsored By:
  • Agronomy
  • College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
  • College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Program
  • Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
  • Fish, Wildlife and Biology Club
  • Iowa Cooperative Wildlife Studies Unit
  • NREM Graduate Student Organization
  • Natural Resource Ecology and Management
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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