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Rocky Barker is a former environmental journalist for the Idaho Statesman and author of Scorched Earth: How the Fires of Yellowstone Changed America (Island Press).

[…] the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the National Audubon Society, and the American Fly Fishing Trade Association Fisheries Fund. Whitney also authored two books, Flora of the Yellowstone and Game on, A Bird Hunter’s Table, Reloaded. He currently manages the Paradise Valley Working Lands Group and directly supports and coordinates PERC’s field projects in […]

[…] destination in the leading world trade fairs. The flagship of this destination is the world famous wildebest migration. Samson was also involved in a collaboration initiative between Yellowstone National Park and the Mara-Serengeti where several exchange programs presented managers of the two largest leading world conservation areas to visit and exchange knowledgeable experience. As […]

[…] team that piloted this work for their client—a $500M foundation —analyzing the partner capacity, potential conservation projects and community goals for a keystone landscape within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Based on assessments, Beartooth Capitol proposed a portfolio of 14 projects, ranging from creating a community crane refuge to conservation easement auctions, that would connect […]

[…] States and seeks to evaluate the public’s awareness of these issues. Jim has been the director of two Environmental Education facilities — Breteche Creek Ranch located near Yellowstone National Park and Cornell’s Nature Center on Long Island, NY– and an educator in several other programs. He has a keen interest in international environmental issues […]

[…] member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and has written movie reviews for Show Business Weekly and BigPictureBigSound.com, among other publications. – See more at: https://www.perc.org/articles/ yellowstone-bison-separating-fact-fear#sthash.cwtgtugG.dpuf Lexi Feinberg served as the deputy opinions editor of Forbes and was a 2010 PERC media fellow. She is a member of the Alliance of Women […]

[…] Award and the 1992 Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Award. A revised edition of the book was published in 2001. Leal also is the co-editor of The Yellowstone Primer: Land and Resource Management in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. A volume in the Political Economy Forum Series, Government vs. Environment, published in 2002, is co-edited […]

[…] livestock losses caused by wolves. In 1997 he created a similar program for grizzly bears. Fischer was a leader in the ten-year effort to restore wolves to Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho, chronicled in his 1995 book, Wolf Wars. More recently, he led a collaborative effort between conservationists, the timber industry and organized […]

[…] reintroduce and graze bison, and manage the land to maintain and enhance ecological integrity. If it reaches that goal, it will have created a reserve larger than Yellowstone National Park. What makes American Prairie different from many other environmental groups is that it seeks to pay for conservation rather than demand it from others […]

[…] a decade solving a problem that has vexed bison managers for the past century. Barfield studies animal reproduction, and the bison she works with descend directly from Yellowstone National Park’s wild herd. They also carry brucellosis, the disease that could threaten cattle if infected bison wander outside the park. Working with the U.S. Department […]