Jack is a semi-retired biobehavioral scientist with over fifty years of experience studying canid species, domesticated dogs and wolves in the wild.

Jack Stewart PhD

John M. Stewart, Emeritus Professor of Psychobiology and Director, Northland College Wolf Research Team. Formerly at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, the National Institutes of Health, and The Jackson Laboratory, Jack is a semi-retired biobehavioral scientist with over fifty years of experience studying canid species, particularly domesticated dogs and wolves in the wild.

Heather Stricker-Orlovsky has spent the past 15 years working as a wildlife and conservation biologist, with specialties in forest ecology, large carnivores, GIS, and biodiversity.

hstricke@uwsp.edu

Heather Stricker-Orlovsky M.S.

Heather Stricker-Orlovsky has spent the past 15 years working as a wildlife and conservation biologist, with specialties in forest ecology, large carnivores, geographic information systems, and biodiversity. Heather has worked for various state and tribal agencies, and is currently in a joint research position between the UW-Stevens Point College of Natural Resources and the U.S. Forest Service.

She received a Master’s Degree in Conservation Biology from Central Michigan University where her research focused on wolf recolonization of the northern Lower Peninsula and GIS modeling of den habitat and travel corridors throughout the Upper and Lower Peninsulas.

Heather received her Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Ecology from Iowa State University and has spent much of her career working with predators, including work on a bobcat project in Iowa, the lynx reintroduction project in Colorado, and the ongoing predator-prey research still underway in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Noticing a disconnect between scientific research and society, Heather began to search for stronger meaning in her work to find ways to foster relationships between people and the natural world.  

She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point, focusing on the socio-ecological components of wildlife conservation and the cultural ties that relate people to their environment. 

Dr. Adrian Treves’ research focuses on how to balance human needs with wildlife conservation. In 2007, he founded the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

atreves@wisc.edu

Adrian Treves PhD

Adrian earned his B.A. in 1990 in Biology and Anthropology from Rice University and his PhD in 1997 in Behavioral Ecology and Biological Anthropology from Harvard University. In 2007, he founded the Carnivore Coexistence Lab at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Adrian’s research focuses on how to balance human needs with wildlife conservation. To study this question, he explores people’s conflicts with large carnivores, particularly livestock predation in the USA and abroad. This line of inquiry includes livestock husbandry, wildlife management, human and carnivore behavior, and methods for mitigating human-carnivore conflicts.

Adrian and his students conduct fieldwork in Wisconsin (wolves and other large carnivores) with a variety of collaborators. Click here for links to his recent research articles on carnivores, compensation, hunting, mitigating human-wildlife conflicts, and co-management.