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Books The Wolverine Way, The Fate of the Elephant, A Beast the Color of Winter: T, The Grandest of Lives: Ey, True Grizz: Glimpses of Fernie | ||
What are they doing down there?
Douglas H. Chadwick (born 1948) is an American wildlife biologist, author, photographer and frequent National Geographic contributor. He is a past officer and member of the board of The Vital Ground Foundation, and chairman of that organization's Lands Committee, responsible for choosing acquisition properties as part of the Yellowstone to Yukon wildlife corridor system. Chadwick is also a director of the Gobi Bear Fund, part of the Gobi Bear Initiative, which attempts to restore population of this most endangered of all the yellow bears.
Contents
- What are they doing down there
- Single species studies
- Wildlife corridors
- Glacier Wolverine Project
- References
Chadwick's affiliation with National Geographic spans more than thirty-five years and more than fifty articles from the first in 1977 up to assignments in 2013 for articles on cougars, wolverines and Gobi bears.
Single species studies
Chadwick's research involves multi-year projects of extended close observation in species habitat, trapping, radio collar tracking, mapping, and studies of community relationships. In this manner, he has studied wolverines in the northwestern U.S. and Canada, mountain goats and grizzlies in the Rockies, and elephants in Africa.
Wildlife corridors
In his work for Vital Ground, Chadwick evaluates potential corridor lands to link the five protected grizzly bear habitats in the lower 48 states and British Columbia and Alberta in Canada. He has guided land and easement acquisitions in, for example,the Cabinet-Purcell Wildlife Linkage Initiative Area, the Selkirk Initiative, and the Bismark Meadows in Idaho.
Glacier Wolverine Project
In 2006, Chadwick began what would become a five-year participation in the Glacier Wolverine Project, to follow a small set of wolverines as they traveled over their extensive habitat centered on and around Glacier National Park (U.S.). This study was the subject of Chadwick's book, The Wolverine Way, and the PBS/Nature documentary "Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom." Chadwick played a major on-screen role in the Nature documentary. The Glacier Wolverine Project was conducted by the U.S. Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, Montana, under the leadership of principal investigator, Jeffrey Copeland.