can draw, paint, describe, and teach about all aspects of Yellowstone National Park’s ecology. He has a degree in wildlife ecology and experience teaching field biology, ornithology, dendrology, mammalogy, drawing, and field journaling. His art and writing have appeared in popular and scientific publications. His bronze sculptures can be found in collections across the United States, Europe, and in the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson, Wyoming.

has studied arctic and alpine plant ecology in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem since 1973. He is a professor of biology at Northwest College, located immediately east of Yellowstone National Park, and has published an extensive review of North American alpine ecosystems.

weaves together natural history, human history, folklore, and myth into spell-binding stories. A naturalist and folklorist, he has spent a good part of the past four decades in the Yellowstone ecosystem. Since 1980 he has directed Great Plains Lore and Natural History, Inc. His books include This Ol’ Drought Ain’t Broke Us Yet and The First Liar Never Has a Chance.

is the Bear Management Biologist for Yellowstone National Park, where he has worked in grizzly bear and black bear research and management for more than two decades. He has published papers on bear management, grizzly bear-human interactions, bear inflicted human injuries, and grizzly bear predation on elk calves, bison calves, and spawning cutthroat trout. He is the recipient of the 1997 Sigurd Olsen Environmental Achievement Award and the 2005 U.S. Department of Agriculture Conservation Project of the Year Award.

is a wilderness adventurer, accomplished paddler, freelance writer, and workshop leader. Adventures in wild places have fueled much of his writing. He has written hundreds of magazine pieces and nine acclaimed books, including Water and Sky: Reflections of a Northern Year and Threading the Currents: A Paddler’s Passion for Water. He has taught popular writing classes at the Buffalo Ranch and on the shores of Yellowstone Lake since 2001.

is Field Director for Keystone Conservation. He has conducted field research, and worked on projects involving community-based conservation and backcountry food storage. Steve has published articles on carnivore conservation and ecosystem management in Conservation Biology and Policy Sciences, and contributed chapters to the book, Co-existing with Large Carnivores: Lessons from Greater Yellowstone.

has taken many trips to Yellowstone from his home in Livingston, Montana, to capture the park’s varied landscapes in luminous paintings. His art has been featured in The Montana Quarterly, The Pastel Journal, and Artist’s Magazine. His work has been shown with the Pastel Society of America, at the C.M. Russell Auction and Exhibition, and in galleries throughout the West.

student has studied wolves since 1996. He earned his master’s degree studying the relationship between Yellowstone’s ravens and wolves, and is now researching wolf social dynamics and genetics for his doctorate. He is the project biologist for the Yellowstone Wolf Project where he helps coordinate and direct research on wolves, their prey, and scavenger communities.

is a natural and cultural historian specializing in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, where he has lived almost his entire life. As a wildlife biologist, he has studied many of Yellowstone’s large mammals, including elk, wolves, bears, and bison. For his Ph.D. at the University of Alberta, he focused on the effects of wolf restoration on the park’s Northern Range elk herd.