On the front lines of wolf restoration in the Western USA since 1988, Suzanne began in the role of university intern for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Forest Service, and the Nez Perce Tribe’s Central Idaho interagency wolf recovery steering committee. There she coordinated reports of wolf sightings around the state and helped the search to document wolves in the wild places of Idaho. After graduation, Suzanne served on the Central Idaho and Yellowstone wolf reintroduction teams in the mid-1990s, caring for wolves awaiting transport in northern British Columbia and releasing them in central Idaho. From 1999 to 2019, she served as an Idaho based wolf NGO conservationist covering the Colorado Rockies to the Pacific Northwest and California. Often her work placed her at the heart of the sociopolitical war over the return of the wolf where she recognized that wolves would never escape human persecution until people found a way to live in peace with them.

Suzanne founded the ongoing Wood River Wolf Project in 2008 to demonstrate that wolves can coexist with sheep operations on national forests when adequate nonlethal deterrents are consistently applied. She is the lead author on the first landscape level wolf and sheep nonlethal measures study Adaptive use of nonlethal strategies for minimizing wolf–sheep conflict in Idaho. She has spoken at the Smithsonian Institute, University of Oxford, the United Nations Conference on Biological Diversity, and more. She is a current member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Canid Specialist Group, the world’s chief body of scientific and practical expertise on the status and conservation of wild canid species and is helping to protect wolves and other imperiled wildlife with communities around the world.

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https://www.woodriverwolfproject.org/