And the Hey everyone welcome back to National Park After Dark. I'm Danielle. I'm Cassie and we are

continuing our Wolf Week. Yes it's so exciting. It wasn't planned but it's just

the way the cookie crumbled and I couldn't be happier personally.

Yeah, I could talk to all of these people all day so we have a special week full of

wolves and a special week full of talking to people about them.

So it's a nice little change up

and today's conversation is incredibly insightful and inspiring.

Yes, we are, we're diving into a lot of wolf questions and the wolf project that just happened in Colorado.

It's been all over the news that they reintroduced 10 wolves so far into Colorado.

And today we have the pleasure of speaking to two incredible leaders in their fields and two leaders in the decade long effort to reintroduce wolves into portions of their historic range here in Colorado.

We're speaking to Dr Lambert, who is a professor of wildlife ecology and conservation biology

at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she also directs the American Canid Project.

Joanna has spent the past 35 years of her career studying endangered mammals, species, and remote regions

around the world. Most recently she and her students

are researching coyotes and wolves around the American West including in

Yellowstone National Park where she spends as much time as possible. Joanna has published several books and hundreds of peer-reviewed articles on her research

and serves as an editor for several international science journals.

For her effort, she has been elected as a fellow in the American Association for Advancement

of Science, as well as a fellow in the L'Nayan Society of London, the Institute where Charles

Darwin first presented his theory of evolution.

Throughout her almost 40 years of field research around the world,

she has witnessed extraordinary challenges to biodiversity and human quality of life,

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