Our Directors
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Back row left to right (Jackson Whitman, Jeffrey Copeland, Clinton Long, Eric Lofroth, |
FOUNDING DIRECTORS
Jeffrey P. Copeland
United States Forest Service (Retired)
Driggs, Idaho, USA
Jeff Copeland was involved in wolverine research for 20 years as a research biologist for Idaho Fish and Game and the Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana prior to retirement in 2010. He has led efforts to develop wolverine detection methodology, and wolverine ecology studies in central Idaho, western Wyoming, Glacier National Park, and Yellowstone National Park. Jeff’s work is widely published in peer-reviewed journals and popular articles, and has been featured in the Discovery, Animal Planet, and PBS Nature television series.
Jeff’s current interest is in developing an improved understanding of wolverine ecology from an aspect of life history, biogeography, intraspecific sociality, semiochemistry, and habitat relationships, and how the species may be impacted by various human-related activities and the impacts of global warming. “The wolverine exists on the fringes of our environment, and our consciousness. Without an understanding of our impact on this special creature, it will disappear from the wild places it inhabits without our knowing it was even present.”
Clinton D. Long
The Wolverine Foundation, Inc.
Kuna, Idaho, USA
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
John A. Krebs
BC Hydro
Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Clinton D. Long
The Wolverine Foundation, Inc.
Kuna, Idaho, USA
Dr. Jens Persson
Jens Persson has been conducting research on wolverines since 1998 when he started his PhD project on population ecology of Scandinavian wolverines. Since finishing his thesis in 2003 he has continued conducting research on wolverines with Grimsö Wildlife Research Station (Dept. of Ecology), at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He is now leading a large-scale field research project on the ecology of wolverines and Eurasian lynx in the reindeer husbandry area in northern Sweden.
Jackson S. Whitman
AK Dept. of Fish and Game (Retired)
Salmon, Idaho, USA
Jack Whitman has been engaged in field research on a variety of carnivores since 1971, both in North America and Far Eastern Russia. He recently retired from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game after 27 years of research and management efforts. He has published a variety of scientific and popular manuscripts on wolverines and other carnivore species, and is currently continuing his research efforts in Idaho.
DIRECTORS
Howard Golden
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Anchorage, Alaska, USA
Howard Golden has studied furbearers in western North America since 1980. For the past 20 years, he has worked as a furbearer biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He has conducted field research projects on wolverines, river otters, wolves and a variety of other furbearer species, and has published reports, scientific papers and management guides on this work. He is currently investigating the movements, density and sustainable harvest potential of wolverines in southcentral Alaska.
Dr. Arild Landa
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Trondheim, Norway
Arild Landa has been engaged in field research on large carnivores since 1982. Since 1990 he has carried out a number of large projects on wolverines and Arctic fox in Norway, – and muskoxen and caribou in Greenland. Landa is educated from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and received his PhD on wolverines in 1997. Landa has experience as head of research at Greenland institute of natural resources and Norwegian institute for nature research (NINA). Today he is a senior scientist at NINA. Landa has a comprehensive scientific and popular science production as well as being an author of general literature.
Eric C. Lofroth
BC Ministry of Environment Lands and Parks
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Dr. Audrey J. Magoun
Wildlife Research and Management
Fairbanks, Alaska, USA
Audrey Magoun has been engaged in field research and captive work on wolverines since 1978. She and her husband operate WRAM (Wildlife Research and Management), a consulting firm specializing in wildlife surveys of carnivores and ungulates. She has published a number of scientific papers and popular articles on wolverines. Her current research focus is developing a technique for monitoring wolverines using motion-detection cameras.