Working together to create a win-win scenario.
From left: Larry Schoen (Former Blaine County Commissioner), Brian Bean (owner of Lava Lake Land & Livestock and President of the Lava Lake Institute for Science & Conservation), Roberto (sheep herder from Flat Top Ranch), and Fernando Najera (WRWP Project Field Manager in 2014). Photo: Suzanne Stone, Defenders of Wildlife
Wood River Wolf Project Collaborators
Brian Bean
Co-owner of Lava Lake Land & Livestock
President of the Lava Lake Institute for Science & Conservation
Larry Schoen
Former Blaine County Commissioner and Farmer
Kurt Nelson
District Ranger of U.S. Forest Service in the Ketchum Ranger District
We depend on collaboration from multiple partners for our success. Our current collaborators include:
Ranching Operations
Faulkner Land and Livestock
Flat Top Sheep Company
Kowitz Sheep Company
Lava Lake Land & Livestock
Plateau Farms
Salmon Falls Sheep Company
Government Agencies
Supporting Foundations and Institutions
LeHigh Valley Zoo
Rebecca Patton and Tom Goodrich Charitable Fund
The Spur Community Foundation
Wildlife Conservation Organizations
International Wildlife Coexistence Network
Organizations contributing to the Wood River Wolf Project
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
Umatilla tribe in Oregon
Utah State University
University of Washington
The Nature Conservancy
Conservation Northwest
Keystone Conservation
University of Oxford Wildlife Conservation Research Unit
Western Arctic National Parklands
University of Wisconsin Madison, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
Duke University
Cheetah Conservation Fund, Botswana
University of Florida, Center for Biological Diversity
California Wolf Center
Brazilian National Center for Mammalian Carnivore Research
and more!