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Wolves often prompt an emotional response, from those who contend with the challenges of their presence to those who see them as an integral part of a healthy ecosystem.Perhaps no one understands this better than wolf biologist Diane Boyd, who has spent more than four decades studying the animals, reflecting on their role throughout history, and the stories that surround them. For the inaugural talk in the 24th annual John White Series, Boyd shares her experience as a researcher and her wonder for the natural world. “Instead of just talking about wolf ecology,” she says. “I talk about perceptions, why I wrote the book.”
Her memoir, A Woman Among Wolves: My Journey Through Forty Years of Wolf Recovery (Greystone Books, 2024), made a splash and put her on a busy lecture circuit, including an hours-long interview on The Joe Rogan Experience (“I found him to be very pleasantly reasonable,” Boyd says).
From the moment Boyd started work up in the North Fork in 1979 with one collared wolf to study to an age when wolves not only have reintroduced themselves across the West but also in Europe, she has in her lifetime witnessed “the most remarkable endangered species recovery story ever, not due to our brilliance but more their resilience and cleverness.”
About the presenter: Through decades in the field, Dr. Diane K. Boyd developed expertise in behavior, conservation, and management of wild wolf populations. She moved to Montana from the Midwest to study gray wolf recovery in the Rocky Mountains, from the first natural colonizer to approximately 3,000 wolves today in the western U.S. Her work has focused on wolf ecology, dispersal, habitat use, prey selection, genetic relationships, and social dimensions of wolf-human conflicts. She also has collaborated on wolf research in British Columbia, Alberta, Ellesmere Island, Italy, and Romania.
More info on the series: https://www.nwmthistory.org/programs/john-white-speaker-series/
Order the entire four-talk series here: https://www.flatheadtickets.com/organizations/northwest-montana-history-museum/packages
All John White Series talks are followed by social time in Hollensteiner-Stahl Hall.
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Northwest Montana History Museum, 124 2nd St E, Kalispell, MT 59901-4994, United States
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