Paulina Springs Books and the Wolf Welcome Committee are delighted to present an interview with Doug Smith, senior wildlife biologist in Yellowstone National Park and project leader for its unprecedented program to reintroduce wolves. Interviewing Doug will be WWC’s Sheree Gillespie, a seasoned Park wolf watcher.

Along with discussing some of the latest wolf research, Doug will be considering possible causes, effects and consequences of the dramatic increase of wolf killings outside the Park’s boundaries and, as he nears retirement, sharing some of the highlights of his career.

Doug Smith manages the wolf, elk, and bird programs and also studies beavers, in the Park. Before arriving in Yellowstone, in 1994, he worked on Isle Royale National Park and in Northeast Minnesota. He has a wildlife degree from the University of Idaho, a MS in Biology from Michigan Technological University, and a PhD from University of Nevada, Reno, in Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation Biology.Smith is coauthor of Decade of the Wolf: Returning the Wild to Yellowstone and co-editor of Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park.

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