Yellowstone Wolf Biologist Doug Smith
WILDERNESS & WILDLIFE
English - September 19, 2019 18:00 - 14 minutes - 9.92 MBHow To Education Science Nature wilderness wildlife wildlands endangered threatened conservation environment whales predators marine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Doug Smith talks about wolves. He is Wolf Conservation Manager for Yellowstone National Park and has been with the National Park Service for nearly forty years. He has been in Yellowstone since 1994 and is currently project leader for the Yellowstone Grey Wolf Restoration Project. Doug was heavily involved in the wolf reintroduction in 1995. He is a Senior Wildlife Biologist in Yellowstone National Park and supervises the wolf, bird, and elk programs, formerly three jobs now combined into one. He has been with the program since its inception in 1994. Prior to Yellowstone, Doug worked on wolf programs in Isle Royale National Park from 1979 to 1992.