Wayne Kasworm, Featured Speaker
Wayne Kasworm is a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and has served in that role since 1989; prior he worked for Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks. He is the Project Biologist for Grizzly Bear and Black Bear Research and Monitoring in the Cabinet-Yaak and Selkirk Mountains Recovery Zones of northwest Montana, northern Idaho, and Northeast Washington.
Wayne assists in development and implementation of the grizzly bear recovery plan, he plans and performs grizzly bear population augmentations in the Cabinet Mountains, assists in preparation of the EIS for reintroduction of grizzly bears to the Bitterroot, is science advisor to the North Cascades and Selkirk/Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear subcommittees of the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee, is the US representative on British Columbia North Cascades grizzly bear recovery team, and assists in preparation of the EIS for reintroduction of grizzly bears to the North Cascades. He studies grizzly bear and black bear population dynamics, food habits, habitat use, behavioral interactions, and relations to human activities. Grizzly bear population augmentation and genetic detections of reproductive success.
Wayne serves as a Member of the IUCN, Bear Specialist Group, North American Bears Expert Team. He has a B.S. in Wildlife and Fisheries Resources from the University of Idaho, and M.S. in Fish and Wildlife Management from Montana State University.