Working together to create a win-win outcomes.

Wood River Wolf Project Early 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 the 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 (retired)

• Kowitz Sheep Company

• Lava Lake Land & Livestock

• Plateau Farms

Government Agencies

• USDA National Wildlife Research Center

• U.S. Forest Service

• Idaho Governor's Office of Species Conservation

• Blaine County

• Blaine County Land, Water and Wildlife Levy Advisory Committee

• Bureau of Land Management - Shoshone Field Office

• Idaho Department of Fish and Game

• Wildlife Services - USDA/APHIS

• NatureSpy - United Kingdom

Supporting Foundations and Institutions

• Lava Lake Institute for Science & Conservation

• Wood River Women’s Foundation

• The Pittsburgh Foundation

• The Horizon Foundation

• 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!