Room to Roam: Yellowstone Wildlife – Panel 5 – Yellowstone 150th Anniversary Symposium Day 2

FESCH.TV INFORMIERT:

Yellowstone National Park is home to diverse, abundant wildlife species—including five large
carnivores and eight ungulates—and visitors from around the world travel to the park to view
this wildlife in their native habitats. Yet many species migrate outside of the park boundaries,
utilizing a mix of private, tribal, and public lands within the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and
thus complicating their management. While everyone can broadly agree on the importance of
conserving the ecosystem’s incredible wildlife resources, the devil is in the details as this panel
will reveal.

MODERATOR
Temple Stoellinger, University of Wyoming

PANELISTS
• Arthur Middleton, University of California, Berkeley
• Brian Nesvik, Wyoming Game and Fish Department
• Jason Baldes, National Wildlife Federation, Eastern Shoshone Tribal Buffalo Program
• Jennifer Carpenter, Yellowstone National Park
• JD Radakovic, Hoodoo Land Holdings
• David Diamond, Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee

The 150th Anniversary of Yellowstone National Park, co-hosted by the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources and College of Law, took place at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming on May 19th and 20th, 2022. It brought together leaders, scholars, and practitioners through eight topical panels and three keynote addresses to explore the past, present, and future of the national park itself, and the broader Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Major themes included tribal connections, ecological health, public engagement, and the need for collaboration to maintain the best of what the park has been historically while meeting future challenges.

Special thanks to our co-sponsors for their generous support of the symposium: Beyond Yellowstone Program, the Wyoming Outdoor Recreation, Tourism, and Hospitality (WORTH) initiative, the Haub School’s Knobloch Program in Conservation Economics, the Tom and Debbe Spicer Gift for Collaborative Solutions, and the MacMillan Private Lands Stewardship Program.